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Tim McClananhan, Director of IT - FuzeCore

Consonus v. C7 Data Centers

Consonus is a provider of data center solutions, IT infrastructure and related managed services. In January of 2007 Consonus of Salt Lake City, UTah and Strategic Technologies, Inc. of Cary North Carolina merged, and Consonus is now Headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. Consonus.com is the primary domain name for Consonus and contains the information used to create this competitor review.

Consonus has data center locations in Denver, Indianapolis, Boston, Cary, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh, Cincinnati and Utah.

C7 Data Centers services and solutions are both similar and different than Consonus facility and service offerings. Below is a chart comparing both companies.

Consonus v. C7 Data Centers

 C7 Data Centers Consonus
Redundant Network Carriers Yes Yes
Redundant power delivery and backup Yes Yes
Physical security Yes Yes
Cooling and environmental controls Yes Yes
Fire and smoke systems detection systems Yes Yes
PCI & SAS 70 Compliant Yes Yes
Additional colocation capacity in 4+ states Yes Yes
Advanced cold-row cooling system Yes ?
Four Utah Colocation® facilities Yes ?
VMware virtual server month-to-month contract Yes ?


Although similar in some features such as redundant network carriers, redundant power delivery and backup, physical security, cooling and environmental controls, fire and smoke systems detection systems, PCI & SAS 70 Compliant and colocation capacity in 4+ states; Consonus differs from C7 Data Centers in Utah data center colocation facilities, advanced cold-row cooling system, and VMware virtual server month-to-month contract length.

NOTE ABOUT THIS COMPARISON CHART for Consonus: The information provided in this comparison table for Consonus is believed to be truthful and accurate as of 5/05/2009. The data center, Utah Colocation®, and virtual server features listed above are provided to help businesses understand some of the differences between C7 Data Centers and Consonus. We strive to provide an honest and accurate representation of our colocation, virtualization and data center hosting service. We feel that Consonus is a legitimate service and that is why we are making this comparison. If you believe any of the information shown regarding the comparison of Consonus and C7 Data Centers to be inaccurate, please let us know and we will correct the inaccuracy the next time this page is updated.