Custom Consulting Services

Uptime Institute is the standard for digital infrastructure performance. Our Tier Standard has been used in the design, construction, and operations in thousands of data center sites in 114 countries. For over 25 years, we've established industry-leading benchmarks for data center performance, resilience, sustainability, and efficiency.

This leadership position has given us unparalleled insight into the digital infrastructure market around the globe and allowed us to formulate unique strategies that can transform data centers into high performing facilities for enterprises, and high margin assets for service providers including colocation providers, cloud providers and commercial data center operators.

As an independent advisory firm, Uptime has no bias towards specific vendors or technologies. Our analysis and recommendations are impartial, ensuring you receive unbiased guidance that puts your best interests at the forefront.

Our custom consulting offerings bring our decades of deep technical expertise and global market insights to bear on your organization's toughest challenges - helping you craft long-term strategies to get the most from your digital infrastructure assets.

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Custom Consulting For Enterprises

In today's dynamic business landscape, every enterprise data center is unique, with its own set of challenges and objectives. Off-the-shelf solutions may not effectively address the specific needs and goals of your data center. This is where digital advisory services step in, offering tailored approaches that align precisely with your enterprise's requirements and enable you to optimize your data center for maximum efficiency and strategic value.

Deployment and Expansion Strategy

We assist in developing a comprehensive plan for deploying your data center services and executing an effective expansion strategy.

Financial Modeling

We provide a comprehensive financial model leveraging Capex/Opex under various deployment scenarios.

Data Center Location Assessment

We help you identify the ideal location for your data center based on factors such as accessibility, infrastructure availability, security, and more.

Demand Assessment

We analyze the current and future demand for your data center, helping you understand the potential for growth and expansion.

Data Center Rationalization

We assess your existing DC infrastructure and provide recommendations to help optimize and rationalize your DC and identify best consolidation strategy to increase efficiency and reduce cost.

Custom Consulting For Service Providers

We offer consulting services for both existing colocation service providers, as well as new entrants into industry or those entering new regional markets where they may have limited knowledge of local market dynamics.

For existing providers, we conduct a thorough analysis of your current data center environment, assessing factors such as infrastructure, capacity planning, energy efficiency, security, and compliance. Our holistic approach enables us to identify opportunities for improvement and develop a roadmap for transformation or expansion.

For new entrants, we help you develop future-proof strategies that embrace emerging trends like cloud computing, virtualization, edge computing, IoT, AI/ML, and more. Our insights ensure that your data center portfolio remains competitive, scalable, and adaptable to market demands.

Deployment and Go-to-Market Strategy

We assist in developing a comprehensive plan for deploying/ expanding your data center services and executing an effective Go-To-Market and Growth strategy.

Financial Modeling

We provide a comprehensive financial model leveraging CapEx/OpEx under various deployment scenarios.

Market Positioning

We provide guidance on how to position your colocation services in the market, differentiate from competitors, and attract target customers.

Demand Assessment

We analyze the current and future market demand for colocation services, helping you understand the potential for growth and expansion.

Data Center Location Assessment

We help you identify the ideal location for your data center based on factors such as accessibility, infrastructure availability, market demand, and more.

Data Center Rationalization

We assess your existing data center infrastructure and provide recommendations to help optimize and rationalize your data center and identify the best consolidation strategy to increase efficiency and reduce cost.

Our Methodology

Our consulting engagements travel through a structured four-phase process, outlined below. This process ultimately results in key decision-making insights and opinions to help with defining a go-forward data center strategy that incorporates both Uptime proprietary data sources, as well as third-party research.

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Our Data Sources

Our decades of experience in certifying and assessing data centers in 114 countries provides us with unparalled technical expertise, and our thousands of customers and Member organizations around the world offer us unparalled access to customer interviews to quantify market demand and validate key findings.

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Get Started

Getting started is easy. Complete the form at the top of this page to route your inquiry to local Uptime Institute staff in your region. Once we receive your request, we'll schedule an exploratory call to learn more about your business and share a roadmap on how we can use both our deep technical knowledge and local market expertise to help you grow your business.