BAIS, Inc. (formerly known as Bay Area Internet Services), is a Silicon Valley data center provider located in Santa Clara, California. Started in 1995, BAIS offers colocation, managed IT solutions and high-speed internet access.

Product Solutions

BAIS offers a wide variety of product solutions, including: private and shared colocation space, dedicated servers, managed hosting and web services, backup solutions, disaster recovery solutions and several Internet access and connectivity options.

Data Center Overview

BAIS has designed and built a world-class Tier IV data center facility, constructed with environmentally responsible products and systems that utilize energy efficient technologies and design methodologies. Their facility is SSAE 16 certified and considered a “Green Colocation” data center, winning a SVP Energy Efficiency Innovator Award.

Highlights of the BAIS facility includes:

• Tier IV data center
• SSAE 16 Compliant
• Carrier Neutral
• Fully Redundant, N+1 Facility
• 83,000 square feet facility, 45,000 sq. ft. data center
• 30 inch raised floor
• 1.25 Seismic Importance Rating
• Over 1,000 high density cold-aisle containment cabinets
• 99.999% Uptime Guarantee

BAIS Tier IV Data Center Overview

The Tough Quesitons

With all of the wholesale data center space available in Silicon Valley, will the BAIS Tier IV facility be able to survive?

Is a Tier IV facility really required, or do the customers in their facility mostly comprise of companies that would be fine hosting in a Tier III facility?

With all of the data center consolidation going on to reduce costs, is BAIS at risk of their customers moving their infrastructure to a lower cost, wholesale data center area like Quincy, Washington?

Latest posts on BAIS:

• Case Study: Building a High Density, High Efficiency Data Center Facility

  Situation: By 2005, Bay Area Internet Solutions (BAIS) had become an established player in Silicon Valley’s competitive co-location industry. Supported by a single, 24,000-square-foot internet datacenter (IDC), the company served hundreds of custome...