Understanding both the real estate and the IT behind a successful data center strategy

In today’s fast-changing business world, a sound data center strategy is essential to the long-term success of an organization. Without sufficient planning to align real estate and IT needs, data centers can account for a tremendous and costly impact on your bottom line.

Jones Lang LaSalle is the only wholly owned global real estate firm with a fully dedicated data center practice.  Our Mission Critical Solutions team has the expertise to merge commercial real estate needs and information technology requirements for a successful data center strategy that efficiently delivers maximum value to your organization. We understand the technical elements that go into decisions regarding data center power, cooling, fiber, latency, utilities, redundancy, taxes, construction, public incentives and security.  We maintain global data center inventories and have developed some of the industry’s best data center analytics.  Having served many of the world’s largest data center users, we collaborate closely with our clients to develop and implement a successful data center strategy which aligns with their overall business objectives.

Whether the goal is to create the most environmentally sustainable enterprise data center possible or to find the most cost effective hosting or colocation site, we can help design, lease, purchase, finance, build and manage your firm’s mission critical facility.  Let us help you develop and implement your data center strategy.

Jones Lang LaSalle’s data center services include:

• Location and site selection strategy
• Site due diligence
• Project management
• Purchase, lease and build-to-suit negotiations
• Financing strategies
• Business and economic incentives negotiations
• Critical environment management
• Project and development services