One of the largest US colocation and hybrid IT providers, with 40+ data centers, a hosted VMware-based private cloud, DRaaS, and a national interconnection fabric. Flexential is the strongest option when your VMware exit doubles as a data center strategy decision.
Flexential is a national data center platform formed from the merger of Peak 10 and ViaWest. It operates more than 40 data centers across roughly 19 US markets, tied together by a 100G private backbone (its FlexAnywhere fabric) with on-ramps into the major hyperscalers. Its portfolio spans retail colocation, hosted private cloud, DRaaS, and managed network and security services.
For VMware customers, Flexential is interesting because it covers two exit paths at once. Its hosted private cloud is VMware-based — so you can lift-and-shift into a managed vSphere environment and let Flexential carry the licensing. Alternatively, you can repatriate or refresh into Flexential colocation, keep ownership of your stack, and run whatever hypervisor you choose on your own hardware with the provider handling power, cooling, and connectivity.
That breadth makes Flexential a common anchor in hybrid designs: production private cloud in one market, DR in another, colocated legacy gear in a third, all on one contract and one network fabric. The interconnection story — private connectivity between your cages, their cloud, and AWS/Azure on-ramps — is a genuine differentiator versus cloud-only providers.
The flip side of breadth is that VMware cloud is one offering among many rather than the company's singular identity. Pure-play VMware operators like Expedient or 11:11 will sometimes out-execute on cloud migration specifics, while Flexential wins on footprint, interconnection, and the ability to put colo and cloud under one roof.
If your Broadcom renewal coincides with a bigger question — "should we even keep running our own data center?" — Flexential lets you answer both at once. You can move VMware workloads into its hosted private cloud, move owned hardware into its colo, or split the difference, without stitching together multiple vendors.
Its 19-market footprint also matters for latency-sensitive or geographically distributed organizations: there is usually a Flexential facility within striking distance of your users, and DR can be placed in a genuinely separate region on the same fabric.
Tell us about your VMware environment and a Foretel advisor will bring back proposals from Flexential and 2–3 comparable providers — with an honest recommendation on which fits.
