Data Centers
Ensure business continuity and profitability
Our data center advisory practice assists CIOs and CFOs with their data center and IT strategy. The continuously accelerating pace of business change is driving extreme demand for IT infrastructure agility, and most companies simply cannot keep up. Making the right data center decisions is crucial to your company's bottom line, and will impact how you strategically conduct business in the 21st century.
True data center consulting
Our Data Center Advisory Practice utilizes a true consulting approach to provide you with extensive solution options that extend far beyond simple real estate transactions, including market assessments, data center deployment strategies, and financial analysis. Our knowledge of how occupancy costs, site location, fiber optics, and technology trends impact individual businesses—along with our understanding of provider offerings in the market—allows us to provide a unique service approach.
We handle requirements ranging from large free-standing data centers to "non-real estate" solutions, such as managed hosting, cloud services, interconnect arrangements and simple rack deployments. We also are involved in emerging technology solutions, such as containerized and modular data centers.
Our unique backgrounds and experience allow us to bridge the gap between "traditional" real estate decision-making and the highly evolved complexities of IT real estate today. We align data center strategies with your goals and objectives.
We forge long-term relationships with our clients and go above and beyond, regardless of the size of your need. Our global network and principal-led culture, along with leading thought capital, helps ensure the best possible results for our clients.
Services include:
- Market analysis
- Transaction services (sale, lease, wholesale/retail colocation)
- Site selection
- Provider selection (outsourcing, managed services, hybrid cloud)
- Provider representation
- Project management
- Valuation services
- Investment sales
- Debt & Equity service

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