VIAWEST V. C7

ViaWest (Via West) is an Internet services & solutions and data center company with data centers in Utah (Viawest Utah, Viawest Salt Lake City), Colorado (Viawest CO, Viawest Denver), Oregon (Viawest Portland), Nevada (ViaWest Las Vegas) and Texas (Viawest Dallas). Viawest.com is Via West’s primary domain name and contains the information used to create this competitor review.

ViaWest service offerings include colocation, hybrid hosting, managed hosting, business continuity, managed services and Internet access. In 2010 ViaWest purchased the Utah data centers of Consonus and acquired SingleEdge.

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

ViaWest (Via West) v. C7 Data Centers
Redundant Network Carriers Yes Yes
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, HIPAA & SSAE 16 Compliant Yes Yes
Additional colocation capacity in 5 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 & SSAE 16 Compliant and colocation in 5 states; ViaWest 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 Viawest (Via West): The information provided in this comparison table for Viawest (Via West) is believed to be truthful and accurate as of 5/02/2009. 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 Viawest (Via West). We strive to provide an honest and accurate representation of our colocation, virtualization and data center hosting service. We feel that Viawest (Via West) 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 Viawest (Via West) and C7 Data Centers to be inaccurate, please let us know and we will correct the inaccuracy the next time this page is updated.