April 13, 2005

Coming—A New, Larger NIH Co-Location Site

CIT provides co-location services both on-campus at the NIH Data Center and off-campus in Northern Virginia. The on-campus co-location has been available since October, 2001.

A second, larger co-location site will open soon on the NIH campus. The second area is double the original co-location site and will accommodate much more equipment.

Customers’ own servers are housed in a secure, climate-controlled environment, where they can control and access their own equipment. Co-location is an attractive option for customers who have already invested in servers but do not have a suitable server environment.

Co-Location Services

All co-location sites—on and off-campus—provide an environment for customer applications that includes:

• physical security, including card key access and video monitoring
• redundant, high-bandwidth connectivity
• reliable infrastructure (uninterruptible power supply, climate control)
• 24 x 7 access to your server
• charges based on the amount of rack space needed—either full or partial racks (CIT provides the racks)
• operations staff on site 24 x 7

The on-campus co-location sites are in building 12—in a secure, separate part of the CIT data center.

The off-campus co-location site is in a secure commercial location connected by extremely high bandwidth—away from the NIH campus (in Northern Virginia) yet under the auspices of CIT. The off-campus co-location still ensures the full confidentiality, availability, and integrity of NIH information.

What Else Is Available and How Can I Learn More?

In addition to co-location services, CIT offers traditional full-service hosting for customer applications in the NIH Data Center on CIT-owned servers (z/OS, Unix, or Windows).

To learn more about these various options—co-location on campus (at NIH), co-location off campus, and full service hosting—please send e-mail to datacenter@list.nih.gov.

Our staff looks forward to working with you to assess your hosting requirements and to help you determine the option that best meets the needs of your organization.