ECElement Critical
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- Cloud and Infrastructure
- Backup and Continuity
Element Critical is a data center provider offering colocation built for resilience and disaster recovery, from cabinets and cages to custom suites. Its facilities, including a Chicago campus on former ComDisco and Sungard sites long known as regional resiliency leaders, were built for disaster recovery and are described as never having been down in decades of operation. It offers significant space in flexible formats, single cabinets, locked cages, private suites, and custom build-to-suit deployments, with 24/7 remote-hands and engineering staff, a secure loading dock, staging and burn-in areas, and support for hosted or dedicated network operations. It also provides the physical amenities disaster-recovery teams need on site, such as offices, conference and recreation rooms and showers, and connects to major carriers in its meet-me room. For a business that wants highly resilient colocation, especially for disaster recovery, Element Critical is a data center option.
Best for
- Organizations that need highly resilient colocation, particularly for disaster recovery.
- Companies wanting flexible footprints, from a single cabinet to a private suite or build-to-suit.
- Businesses that need on-site facilities for disaster-recovery staff during an event.
- Teams that want 24/7 remote hands and support for hosted or dedicated network operations.
A business needing data centers outside Element Critical's markets, or only a tiny footprint with no resilience requirement, is a weaker fit.
What they offer
Colocation. Resilient colocation in flexible formats, cabinets, caged areas, large private suites, and build-to-suit space, in facilities engineered for high availability, with 24/7 remote-hands and engineering staff, secure loading and staging areas, carrier choice in the meet-me room, and support for hosted or dedicated network operations.
Backup and Disaster Recovery. Facilities purpose-built for disaster recovery, including on-site work space and amenities for recovery teams, so a business can run continuity operations from the same resilient site.
Backup and Continuity
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Cloud and Infrastructure
Cloud and IaaS
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Desktop as a Service
Good to know
- Element Critical's catalog listing includes cloud and virtual-desktop tags, but the readable collateral for this page covered its colocation and disaster-recovery facilities. Ask directly about any cloud or DaaS offerings.
- Colocation is location-specific. Confirm capacity, power and the meet-me-room carriers you need at the specific facility.
- Product names here are the company's own material.
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How buying works
The store is the easy part. Staying on the account is the job.
Anyone can show you logos. The reason to buy here is what happens on install night, and on the ticket you open nine months later.
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Build your quote list
Add services and companies as you shop. No form stands between you and the shelf.
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We bring back real options
A person shops the bench against your addresses, then walks you through what fits and what does not.
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We handle the order and install
Paperwork, site survey, install dates, cutover night. You get one thread, not five vendors.
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We stay on your account
Same team for moves, adds, tickets and the next renewal. That is the part everyone else drops.