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 |
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ViaWest |
| 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 | ? |
- Learn more about C7 Data Centers Colocation services.
- Learn more about C7 Data Centers VMware Virtual Server solutions.
- Learn more about C7 Data Centers Disaster Recovery & Data Backup services.
- Learn more about C7 Data Centers SAS 70 Compliance.
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.
