For organizations wishing to take advantage of Cloud Computing and CoLocation (CoLo) Hosted offerings from various vendors, CCO's consultants can provide a number of services to help organizations.  Cloud Computing and CoLo hosted offerings typically have organizations remove servers from traditional company-owned data centers and move them to data centers owned, managed, and operated by a 3rd party organization.  Hosted services provides an organization a shelf, rack, or cage where servers can be housed in a non-company owned data center.  Some of the services that CCO provides in terms of Cloud Computing and CoLo Hosted Services assistance include:

• Providing pros/cons of the various Cloud Computing / CoLo providers available on the marketplace (ie: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Qwest, RackSpace, etc)
• Understanding the features / functions that are gained or lost when migrating from an inhouse data center to an external data center (ie: Internet services, security, backup, manageability, etc)
• Data Center consolidation planning (identifying how many data centers, servers, and applications can be consolidated during the migration process)
• Project management and Hands-on migration from company-owned to external data center
• Decommission existing internal data center once the migration has been completed
• Providing consulting assistance and knowledge transfer on administering an environment with local users and external data center resources