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Citadel DC, Inc. is an American multinational company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that specializes in internet connection and data centers. The company leads in global colocation data center market share, with 250 data centers in 33 countries on five continents. Citadel provides data center experts that work exclusively on your behalf – to save you time and effort, to provide you the lowest-available market pricing, and to give you the utmost confidence in your data center environment.

History
Citadel DC was founded in 1999 by Data center experts, Citadel work exclusively on your behalf – to save you time and effort, to provide you the lowest-available market pricing, and to give you the utmost confidence in your data center environment.

Citadel supports their customer across all stages of design, selection, installation, management and reporting – to give you confidence that your IT environment is optimized, secure, and operating as planned.Citadel will ensure the data center providers match the business needs for deployment speed, as well as design, build, migration, ramp, security, power, connectivity, implementation, management, and reporting.The Citadel team provides guidance from start to finish, including requirements scoping, solution architecture, provider responses, selection process, installation, on-going management, renewals, and future growth options.

What Citadel is not
Citadel is not a data center owner – Citadel offer an apples-to-apples comparison across various data centers from the different providers able to service your needs. Citadel is not a broker – So the customers receive start-to-finish help designing, negotiating, and implementing data center solution. Citadel’s service doesn’t stop when people sign a contract. Citadel’s team is there every step of the way…as a long-term business partner.And, we don’t take commissions from data center providers since optimizing the commission percentage can entice brokers to push you to the provider who pays them the highest fee.

Data center solutions
Citadel offer Data center solutions from Citadel leverage industry-specific experience to provide best-in-class security, compliance, flexibility, and scale. Whether it’s financial services, government, retail, healthcare, or other industries, Citadel provides a wide breadth of industry-specific solutions to best meet your business needs.

And Citadel experts have experience with data center solutions of all sizes, from simple hardware upgrades to large-scale solutions, so Citadel is ready for whatever challenges you’re facing.

Data center solutions from Citadel leverage your current technology while seamlessly incorporating innovations tailored to customers needs:


 * Reduce redundancy and simplify management
 * Accelerate IT service delivery
 * Reduce capital and operating costs while improving performance

Citadel offer their end-to-end data center solutions designed to enable customers to respond dynamically to changes now and in the future.

Get Apples-to-Apples Comparisons
Citadel DC offer data center colocation services, to help customers to compare what they are really being sold. Many leaders readily admit this purchasing activity is not something that IT professionals (or the C-suite) do very often. Perhaps only every 5 to 10 years.

The industry is continuing to evolve, moving from a rack pricing model to a variable consumption pricing model. If the people talk to 5 different providers, they could get several different calculations on pricing on power alone – price per kilowatt, price based on circuits, metered, and all-in.

Citadel will bring all these prices in alignment and provide you with the best options for your business. For example, Citadel will help customers to understand, that for circuit-based pricing, you’ll want to know how much power you receive and

Cloud Solutions
Citadel DC provide a cloud-based solution, for store data on some other hardware and infrastructure. Benefits associated with cloud-based data is cost and scalability. Because customers aren’t paying up-front costs to purchase hardware and infrastructure, you see instant savings. Also, you only pay for what you need so that you don’t have servers sitting dormant and waiting to be put to use.

This leads into the scalability argument. When you need additional space, it’s readily available. It may cost a bit more, but it is there when you need it. However, often times companies end up using much more than they budget and their costs end up being higher than expected.