Technology Solutions
Data Center
As infrastructure demands outgrow aging facilities, housing critical systems matters more than ever. Lightstone offers comprehensive colocation and data center advisory services, crafted to protect infrastructure leaders from power, cooling, and bandwidth constraints. Our approach combines broad market visibility with facility-by-facility comparison, ensuring a confident decision on where and how to house critical infrastructure.
Data Center Solutions With Lightstone
We help you evaluate colocation providers and data center facilities, comparing cabinets, private pods, private suites, cages, power, cooling, and connectivity options across hundreds of facilities. We bring visibility into market pricing and feature comparisons by provider and geography so you can make a confident decision on where and how to house critical infrastructure.
Cages and Cable Management
Scalable Power and Layered Security
Cooling and Design Services
Network and Private Cloud Connectivity
Public Cloud Connectivity and Cross-Connects
Managed Services Options
Compliance Certifications
The Outcomes We Drive
- Lower total cost of ownership across your data center footprint.
- Improved access to enhanced networks and infrastructure.
- Reduced risk through better physical security and redundancy.
- A clear path to hybrid cloud that doesn't require ripping out existing hardware investments overnight.
The Advantage We Provide Tech Leaders
Colocation decisions involve hundreds of facilities, wide pricing variation, and technical tradeoffs that are hard to evaluate without deep market access. Lightstone brings that market knowledge and provider relationships to the table so you get an efficient, well-informed process instead of relying on whichever provider happened to make the first pitch.
Talk to a Data Center AdvisorWhen to Engage Lightstone
Aging on-premises infrastructure is becoming a liability for uptime and security.
Power, cooling, or bandwidth constraints are limiting growth.
There's no clear plan for redundancy or physical security compliance.
Hardware is depreciating with no clear migration path to cloud.
Nobody internally has visibility into colocation pricing or availability across providers and geographies.
How Lightstone Works With You
Assess the Environment
We start with your current facilities, workloads, power, cooling, connectivity, compliance, and growth requirements, so every recommendation is grounded in your actual infrastructure needs.
Evaluate the Options With You
We compare facilities and providers across geography, availability, design, security, connectivity, scalability, and total cost.
Source End to End
We manage the sourcing process from facility evaluation and tours through proposal analysis and negotiation support, helping your team make a confident long-term decision.
Tech Leaders Have 5 Options. One Has Their Interests Built In.
Every hour spent on research, RFPs, and pricing comparisons is an hour not spent on strategy that moves your company forward. That's the true cost of the first four options.
Option 1: Trust Supplier Sales Reps
Every supplier sales rep has exactly one job: sell their company's product, whether or not it's the right fit for you. Many will say anything to hit quota. And reps change companies constantly, so the person who sold you the deal is rarely the person still there when you need support two months later. Zero incentive for honesty.
Option 2: Trust Traditional Consultants
Hourly consultants get paid more the longer an engagement runs, so the incentive points the wrong way. Many are also tied to a short list of supplier relationships they need to keep fed, which limits how neutral the advice actually is.
Option 3: Work With VARs and MSPs
Resellers and managed service providers can only sell and support what they're certified on, typically a handful of suppliers. That's not vendor neutrality, and it's a narrower version of the same bias.
Option 4: Do It Yourself
Technology now changes faster than most companies can make decisions. Good decisions requireheadcount most companies won't fund. Going it alone means becoming the market expert in multiple technologies, on top of your actual job, on a market that changes weekly.
Option 5: Lightstone Technology Advisor: The Truth
Lightstone puts in months of work at no cost to our clients before a purchase is made. If we get it wrong, we lose because we are profitable only if our clients come back. We get paid the same regardless of what supplier you choose. Our incentive is the same as yours: find the best fit, and keep it working for the next 10 years, not just get a deal signed.