Opex-Modeled IT Infrastructure Solutions

Data Center as a Service

Accelerate your digital transformation

State-of-the-art data center resources
Enterprise-grade colocation service
Hardware-as-a-service
Dedicated servers provisioned as cloud

A Full Data Center Service Supporting Agile Businesses

Constructing and managing your on-prem data center is challenging and costly, especially at scale. It requires capital investments and months of full-time staff engagement.

phoenixNAP’s Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) offer lets you lease access to managed, enterprise-grade data center resources, including power, cooling, compute, networking, and storage. This saves you weeks of setup and maintenance work and helps you deploy your globally connected data center environment with no upfront costs.

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Benefits of DCaaS by phoenixNAP for Agile Businesses

Increase Operational Efficiency. Optimize TCO.

Fast and Flexible

Access fully customizable, high-performance IT resources featuring next-gen hardware and software. Adapt your infrastructure to your workloads and expand it to hybrid environments in no time.

Secure and Reliable

Redundant power and cooling with SLA-backed uptime and free DDoS protection ensure data availability and business continuity. Further fortify your business with enterprise-level cloud backup and DR options.

Scalable and Cost-Effective

Easily scale your infrastructure from the core to the edge, optimizing IT spend with reduced bandwidth costs, pay-per-use billing options, and discounts for monthly or yearly reservations.

Features of DCaaS by phoenixNAP

Overcome IT Infrastructure Constraints

DCaaS lets you overcome the limitations of your on-prem data center, allowing your IT staff to focus on growing your business instead of investing hours or days into infrastructure management. With state-of-the-art solutions tailored to your needs, you enable optimal performance and availability for your workloads and applications while reducing overhead.

The growth of edge computing, IoT, AI, and global team and workload distribution means businesses need to generate data everywhere. That is why DCaaS is a perfect solution for enterprises looking to run resource-intensive workloads such as hypervisors, databases, or container platforms in a reliable, scalable environment.

We Value
Your Trust

We pride ourselves on being the preferred choice for our clients.

“Our technological infrastructure was built by phoenixNAP strictly in line with our needs and according to our exact guidelines (servers, switches, cabling). In addition to that, we currently have full control over hardware (switch configuration, IPMI, etc.), which makes further improvements easier to implement.”

Bartek Romański, CTO, RTB House

"Our technology environment is now extremely stable, and we’ve experienced no service outages or problems since moving to phoenixNAP. That translates into improved uptime for our chapters, allowing them to dedicate more time to fundraising and granting wishes."

Paul Mehlhorn, Chief Financial Officer, Make-A-Wish

“phoenixNAP was really the right choice for location, security, amenities and all-around nice people to work with. It’s really centrally located and that was a big plus for us. The whole phoenixNAP crew is top notch and they really catered to meeting our current needs and also allow us the ability to expand in the future.”

Marc Chesley, VP of Development and Technology, Infusionsoft

Services

phoenixNAP Data-Center-as-a-Service Portfolio

With over a decade of experience in data center operations and infrastructure building, phoenixNAP offers solutions that help you lower TCO and accelerate your digital transformation. Our wide range of services comes with 24/7 expert support on-site and comprehensive infrastructure management options.

Colocation

Expand your global footprint and gain access to strategically located space, power, and cooling resources in high-density, carrier-neutral data center facilities. Leverage on-demand direct connection to Arizona’s first AWS Direct Connect or Google Cloud Interconnect location and easily expand your environment to multi and hybrid cloud.

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Hardware as a Service (HaaS)

Lease additional hardware whenever your workloads need it and upgrade your infrastructure with industry-leading compute, storage, security, and network technologies. Gain ultimate flexibility available on an opex model, with round-the-clock remote hands support, flexible contract terms, and lease-to-own options.

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Bare Metal Cloud

Deploy your cloud-native, K8s-compatible data center in minutes. Spin up pre-configured API-driven dedicated server instances, scale them at the edge, and manage them as code, aligning your infrastructure to your CI/CD pipelines. Access your servers and solutions via CLI, API, or WebUI and gain single-pane-of-glass observability.

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Additional Services

As a global data center services provider, phoenixNAP’s broad range of solutions goes beyond colocation and caters to the needs of anything from legacy apps to cloud-native microservices.

	Data Security Cloud Leverage a cloud infrastructure platform designed for your sensitive workloads. Enable multi-layer hardware and software protection with single-pane-of-glass encryption and access control. Explore Solution »

Data Security Cloud

Leverage a cloud infrastructure platform designed for your sensitive workloads. Enable multi-layer hardware and software protection with single-pane-of-glass encryption and access control.

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	Data Availability Services Additionally strengthen your security posture and ensure the highest levels of data availability with our Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions. Protect critical workloads from outages or cyber threats. Discover More »

Data Availability Services

Additionally strengthen your security posture and ensure the highest levels of data availability with our Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions. Protect critical workloads from outages or cyber threats.

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Use Cases

Use Cases for phoenixNAP DCaaS

Overcome On-Prem Challenges

As your workload demands outgrow your on-prem capabilities, add additional resources, and expand your footprint globally without spending a fortune. Set up hybrid, multi-cloud, or edge computing environments on demand with expert staff at your disposal 24/7.

Accelerate Business Growth

If you are developing promising software but lack the resources to ensure optimal user experience, phoenixNAP helps you grow and gain a competitive edge by providing you with a flexible data center environment without the need for capital investments.

Enhance Data Security

Data centers are common targets for cyber threats. Through multiple layers of battle-tested hardware and software security solutions and superior on-prem security, phoenixNAP’s Data Center as a Service keeps your critical applications and workloads physically and digitally safe.

Increase Data Availability

Mission-critical workloads require an always-on data center environment with redundant power, cooling, network, and compute resources. Our enterprise-grade server hardware and secure cloud backup and DR services help you stay resistant to business disruptions no matter what.

Increase Revenue

If you are a Data Center Operator, adding phoenixNAP’s DCaaS offering to your existing service portfolio introduces a new revenue stream. Offer managed, automation-driven platforms to cloud-native organizations that need quick and secure ways to deploy and scale their IT.

Lower Cost of Entry

Through strategic positioning, flexibility, and high data availability, DCaaS helps enterprises lower their cost of entry and quickly expand their market reach. Reap the benefits of hybrid cloud computing while avoiding latency and data security risks commonly related to public cloud.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Data Center as a Service is an IT service model where data centers provide their physical facilities and infrastructure for lease or rent to clients. The clients access the provider’s servers, hardware, bandwidth, storage, network infrastructure, and other resources remotely across a geo-distributed WAN network.

The DCaaS model lets organizations leverage all the benefits of accessing full data center capabilities on demand, without having to physically visit the facility. DCaaS providers offer different service packages organizations can choose and scale on demand, with minimal effort. This helps them lower their IT costs while taking advantage of a modern, secure, and always-on infrastructure.

The opex billing model of DCaaS helps you optimize cost efficiency and reduce upfront investments. Rapidly deployable, DCaaS allows you to easily scale your resources and adapt them to your needs. Finally, the enhanced security, compliance, and data availability, paired with access to the latest hardware and software technologies, helps you cost-effectively optimize your IT while focusing on growth and innovation.

DCaaS takes the traditional colocation service to a new level, offering more than just power, bandwidth, network, and physical space for an organization’s infrastructure. It offers fully managed services with flexible resource provisioning meeting the requirements of growing businesses. This helps organizations reduce their overhead costs while boosting scalability, reliability, and security of their IT environment.

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