Colo+ is our solution to the great migration problem. It’s our way of simplifying colocation, by managing all the complexities of colocation on behalf of our customers.
When you choose Colo+ you no longer need to engage directly in physical logistics, meaning your team is free to give strategic business operations their full attention.
Let’s explore what it is and why it works in a little more detail.
What is Colo+ ?
Colo+ means that the entire migration and ongoing management is handled for you by our highly-trained team of technicians.
We go to your existing data center, decommission your racks, securely pack your servers and safely ship them to our facility, and you don’t have to lift a finger.
Absolutely everything is included with Colo+. And we mean everything. You’ll get racks, rails, PDUs and cables thrown in, which means significant cost savings right from the start. We don’t charge for remote hands on or cross connects either.
The benefits of Colo+ go far beyond these initial cost savings, though. The truth is, Colo+ enables us to provide the ultimate customer experience.
Our team can really shine as they swoop in and take full control of the migration for our new customers, and we always receive great feedback once the task is complete.
Just take a look at some of our recent case studies to see what our recent customers think of Colo+.
Why Choose Colo+
When you choose Colo+, our expert team handles everything. It means that migrations are no longer daunting, and customers feel empowered to make the move if their previous setup is no longer working for them.
We look after every task, including decommissioning, secure packing and safe transportation, and we can do it all within 12 hours. Even if you want to move on a Friday night and be back online by Saturday morning.
Colo+ is built on three principles: rapid and safe moves, efficient ongoing management with free remote hands-on, and overall efficiency.
A custom rack design includes features to prevent issues during remote work and makes adds, moves, and changes significantly faster. Our design also incorporates inventory management of essential rack components, saving huge amounts of time and resources in the long term.
Colo+ Saves Money
Colo+ is brilliantly cost-effective. Approximately 75% of the cost of Colo+ covers equipment clients would likely purchase anyway, which makes it a worthwhile investment for the vast majority of companies.
The service includes everything that might be needed to complete the move, such as racks, rails, PDUs and cables. That alone can save customers around $8,000 per rack. Arranging network contracts, cross connects, and all adds, moves and changes all included as standard too.
The experience is unparalleled
As a service, Colo+ offers a standout experience. And that’s largely down to the way in which it reduces the barriers to working with TRG.
Colo+ allows us to bring our teams together in a way that benefits both, streamlining processes and simplifying tasks to get jobs done quickly and efficiently. It also means that we can optimize performance within racks, which in turn means a better experience for our customers.
With Colo+, we can really nurture a sense of pride, too. It strengthens bonds between the TRG team and those of our clients, allowing both to work together to reap the maximum benefit from their unique skillsets.
Our processes have been refined through years of effort, but we’re always working on optimizing performance in new ways. That’s the ultimate reflection of the customer experience for us.
Setting Up Infrastructure Is Harder Than It Looks
With Colo+ we take care of every aspect of physical infrastructure from the initial migration (lift and shift), all the way to hardware refreshes years down the road. And that makes a real difference to our customers, because let’s face it, setting up infrastructure (properly) is much harder than it looks.
We’ve really noticed that physical infrastructure (cabling and labeling) represents a variation in workflow and skill gap in typical IT staff. Colo+ solves this by providing 24/7 on site resources to take care of these tasks at no incremental cost.
The best part, and the one that makes it all worth it for our team, is the gratitude people express and the pride they take in their cabinets once setup is complete. Having a world class, magazine quality deployment in a Tier IV facility is something any organization should be proud of.
Colo+ Means Long-Term Support for Whatever Customers Need
We’re offering an experience that goes far beyond the initial migration. Because support has to be a long-term offering, not something that’s only available on day one.
Colo+ far surpasses any other data center experience today, purely because of the level of support that our technicians offer 24/7.
Our customers can send us any equipment, or we can even come and collect, and we’ll transport it safely, get it online and keep it that way.
Colo+ is the ultimate realization of hybrid IT
In this as-a-service world we need data center experiences, not real estate.
Colo+ is an infrastructure distribution model. And by setting the table as distribution, we can logically extend other forms of distribution, like extensile resources, to our customers.
In short, that means we can provide the ultimate realization of hybrid IT.
How We Build is a Reflection on How We Feel: An Introspective By Chris Hinkle, CEO
In the absence of any knowledge of how IT works, leadership teams see what they can and infer performance.
I can’t tell you how many emails we have received about pictures of their cabinets being circulated internally at an organization and making it all the way to the CEO!
The pride of the deployment becomes reflected within the department itself, and it is my belief that pride carries forward into the operations and administration of the networks themselves.
Within just one year of launching this service, we became the highest rated and most reviewed data center in our city.
The great Horst Schulz of the Ritz Carlton once said that “Profit is the applause that we receive for providing great service”, and I believe that the model personal fulfillment that my team, customers, and their businesses get from this delivery model make it all worth it no matter how hard the work.
Colo+ is the ultimate manifestation of our high-service ethos. It’s our signature product and it’s used by 95% of our clients. Over the years it’s proved perfect for addressing the challenges clients face during migrations and the ongoing management of their equipment.
