Sometimes a complex colocation deployment may take weeks or even months to get planned, implemented, and deployed. However, the world will keep on spinning, and a lot of business opportunities will be lost if your colocation provider is not fast enough to serve your every critical need within the given time, budget, and required scope of your project.

The problem with faster colocation deployment is that it needs to be done the ‘first time right,’ which again requires a lot of experience and can be only provided by a select few vendors like UnitedLayer®, which shines out with its two decades of experience in solving complicated colocation and hybrid cloud problems. One of the biggest social media companies, the largest online encyclopedia, and one of the leading American internet hosting providers trust UnitedLayer® for their complex colocation needs.

This write-up will take you through another success story of UnitedLayer® in the colocation market featured by datacenterhawk. We at UnitedLayer® take a lot of pride in delivering instant colocation solutions within a short period of time, which is mission-critical for our modern-day customers.

This industry case study will showcase a just-in-time joint venture between UnitedLayer® and datacenterHawk to support an AI and ML technology pioneer to migrate its mission-critical IT infrastructure into UnitedLayer’s® agile colocation environment.

CTO of an American Major ML and AI firm found himself in a situation where the lease on the current colocation space was about to expire. The customer provides Machine Learning(ML) and Artificial Intelligence(AI) for marketing and product innovation.

The customer browsed and sent quote requests to many data centers in the Bay Area and came across UnitedLayer®, which supported all his requirements, including 11⁄2 racks, 500 MBPS bandwidth, Azure AWS, and GCP connectivity and the cost. The team of UnitedLayer® assured the customer that the relocation of their colocation would be taken care of in a span of 72 hours.

Fortunately for the customer, UnitedLayer® was prepared to field the request. What resulted was a flurry of activity rarely seen to help the customer make his move.

• UnitedLayer® scheduled a same-day tour of 200 Paul* and delivered pricing in less than 24 hours.
• The team at UnitedLayer® was able to expedite the provisioning and customer onboarding.
• The team did an after-hours install on Saturday and put connectivity in place on Sunday.
• The customer was able to move in on Monday, avoiding any sort of costly interruption of IT service.

Within a record time of 72 hours, the customer could proceed with the initial request to deploy a business functional colocation facility.

CEO of UnitedLayer®, Abhijit Phanse, explained, “With UnitedLayer®, we have almost two decades of experience in building, managing, and delivering some of the most complex enterprise-grade colocation solutions across AI & ML, TMT, Retail, Logistics, Oil & Gas, Government & BFSI sector,  This case study is one of the best examples which showcases our faster delivery and quick turnaround time to accommodate urgent business needs of our customers across the globe. Our experts can help any company in creating a migration strategy, assess multiple application portfolios, review several cost structures, and identify the best-fit cloud platform  to serve the unique needs of our customers.”

The customer can deploy and manage their existing hardware in our premier Tier-3 data center facility while still maintaining the level of access, control, and security of a data center that resides entirely on their premises. With the UnitedColocation solution, one can eliminate the hassle and cost of running their own data center while setting their business up for a future in the cloud.

The customer secures his data in UnitedLayer’s® 200 Paul data center, the only data center in San Francisco built on bedrock with Zone 4 construction and is not in a 500-year flood plain. UnitedColocation provides 24x7x365 uptime reliability of their network along with fast and predictable performance in IT Operations. It delivers greater than N+1 architecture for uninterrupted power and cooling along with 99.999% high availability for applications and systems with a seamless software-defined upgrade of the network, storage, and compute from 1G to 20G.

Our Software-Defined Multicloud Data Center Platform is a technology platform that converts any legacy data center into a modern hybrid cloud and multicloud data center. The compliance assures security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and customer data privacy to the customers to cater to their business requirements.

We enable comprehensive managed services like Remote Hands, Smart Hands, Infrastructure Management, Network Management, Container Management, IT Estate Management, Database Management, Disaster Recovery, Cloud Migration, Cloud Connectivity, Data Privacy Management along with Security and Compliance. The customer can utilize a colocation site that is highly secure and compliant to industry-leading standards such as SSAE 16, HIPAA, ISO 14001, ISO 22301, PCI-DSS, NIST, FISMA, and SOC. The company is LEED Gold certified in green building strategies to support long-term sustainability.

With carrier-neutral carrier-dense interconnections with hyper-scale public cloud providers, we offer a suite of colocation services that provide a huge cost-advantage, scalability, and security for data center solutions and Hybrid Cloud solutions.

About UnitedLayer®:

UnitedLayer® is a leading provider of Colocation services across the globe. It manages the only data center in San Francisco that is built on solid bedrock. The location serves many engineering, technology, and internet service providers and is the leading data center for the Bay Area and San Francisco colocation.

About 200 Paul:

UnitedLayer’s® 200 Paul data center is the only data center in San Francisco built on bedrock with Zone 4 construction and is not in a 500-year flood plain. UnitedLayer’s® fully redundant data center space is not in the liquefaction or landslide zone for the next 100-year and is seismically rated for protection against earthquakes.

The high network density at 200 Paul Avenue makes it an ideal interconnection point for the entire west coast, providing connectivity to leading domestic and Asia Pacific carriers, making it extremely viable to support any complex business need.

UnitedLayer® allows you to hone your skills by working on live projects and industry interactions from the day you join. This helps to convert any theoretical knowledge into applicable practical wisdom. We promote a healthy work environment that is based on positive relationships with your co-workers and peers. To promote that, we offer regular team outings for all our employees where they engage in team-building recreational and fun activities.

With the prevalent rife of the pandemic, the concern is not about where you work, but how you work. So, keeping the wellness and safety of our employees on priority, we have introduced several work-from-home policies to make certain that our employees have the right tools, resources, and equipment to serve our clients better. To assist our UnitedLayer® family, we have purchased additional COVID 19 health insurance coverage for our employees, their spouse, and dependent children to cover certain medical costs related to the Coronavirus. We will be extending an allowance for the internet expense for all UnitedLayer® India employees during this Work From Home period.
Our company also nominates employees from various departments for several categories of recognition like New Kid on the Block, Leadership in Making. These awards are given to a select few employees that are able to demonstrate commendable work for our clients and our organization within a short period of time which motivates them to perform even better. Sales incentives provided by UnitedLayer® are attractive and above industry standards.

We also provide several onshore opportunities that are also endowed by UnitedLayer® under the category of the international travel policy where the company bears all the expenses of the employee on that particular project. We have a shift allowance policy in place that enables our employees to work in different shifts as required by the business to work safely and securely within office premises. We have a special security policy for our female employees who work in the night shifts.

The management makes sure that all the employees who do overtime are paid fairly for their extra work and efforts. We help and encourage our team to create a healthy work-life balance between their personal and professional lives.

We aspire to be an organization that ensures the wellbeing of all its employees. We have very precise functioning policies for sexual harassment and the authority keeps a track of all sorts of non-permissible actions of the employees. Harassment and workplace violence are strictly prohibited and such cases are directly handled by management for swift action. We care and don’t leave our employee’s hands in a bad situation.

In good times as well as in the bad times we always remain with our employees. The company provides health insurance to full-time employees under the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

We arrange “Gift Cheque” on the occasion of an employees’ marriage or the marriage of the employee’s child. We have various favorable plans for all our employees to ensure that we are there as a team with them, be it in their celebrations or bereavement. The holiday calendars in our company vary under different regions like the U.S, Canada, and India.

Broaden your horizons by joining our team of professionals and get a chance to grow in a healthy environment which enhances your skill sets and challenges your abilities in multiple areas.