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Remote Hands in Houston
Remote hands in Houston means Reboot Monkey engineers carry out physical tasks in your racks on your instruction: reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks. It is on-site IT support in Houston data centers, delivered inside facilities that other companies own and run, with a second briefed engineer named as backup for every customer site.
In Houston
- Remote Hands
- Colocation
- Data Center Decommissioning
- Rack and Stack
- Server Migration
- Smart Handson request
- Data Center Migrationon request
- ITADon request
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Arrange Remote Hands in Houston
Tell us what needs doing in your racks and we will quote the job. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.
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Remote Hands in Houston
Remote hands is the physical layer of operating infrastructure you cannot reach yourself. Your team decides what needs to happen, and a Reboot Monkey engineer carries it out at the rack. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator: it does not host workloads and does not own datacenters, so the work is done inside buildings that other companies own and run. Digital Realty HOU (12001 North Freeway) stands on North Freeway in Houston. Reboot Monkey sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network and data-centre hardware, together with the services that deliver, install and support them, so remote hands in Houston can sit alongside the rest of your footprint under one supplier.
Datacenter Facilities in Houston
Data centres in Houston, ordered by the number of networks present:
- Databank Houston West (HOU1) (HOU2) (DataBank, Ltd.), 5150 & 5170 Westway Park Blvd, Houston 77041: 37 networks; carriers AT&T US, Arelion and FiberLight LLC
- Netrality Houston - 1301 Fannin (Netrality Data Centers), 1301 Fannin - Netrality Data Center Meet Me Room, 1301 Fannin Street, Houston 77002: 30 networks; carriers AT&T US and Arelion
- Digital Realty HOU (12001 North Freeway), 12001 North Freeway, Houston 77060: 14 networks
- Data Foundry Houston 2 (Data Foundry, Inc.), 660 Greens Pkwy, Houston 77067: 12 networks; carriers Arelion and FiberLight LLC
- FIBERTOWN Houston Data Center, 12031 North Fwy, Houston TX 77060-1702: 11 networks; carriers FiberLight LLC and MIDnet
- Databank Houston Galleria (HOU5) (DataBank, Ltd.), 4201 Southwest Freeway, Houston 77027: 8 networks; carriers AT&T US and FiberLight LLC
- Quasar Data Center, 1001 Texas Ave, Houston 77002: 7 networks
- Consolidated - 811 Louisiana (Consolidated Communications, Inc.), 811 Louisiana St, Houston 77002: 4 networks
- Equinix HO1 - Houston (Equinix, Inc.), 1515 Aldine Meadows Road, Houston 77032: 4 networks; carriers AT&T US
- INAP Houston (INAP Holding LLC), 1301 Fannin St., Houston 77002: 4 networks; carriers FiberLight LLC
Our Remote Hands Services
Remote hands covers physical tasks carried out on your instruction. You send the request, and the engineer acts on exactly what you specify rather than making configuration decisions for you. Work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge falls under smart hands, which is a separate service. For each job, the engineer reports back so you know the work was done as instructed.
- Reboots and power cycling of servers and network equipment on your instruction
- Cable checks and re-patching of cabling in your rack
- Component swaps, such as replacing a failed drive or module you have supplied
- Visual checks of equipment, including status lights and port state, reported back to you
- Fibre inspection with a scope and a cleaning kit, available on request
Why Reboot Monkey
Reboot Monkey sells the network for the rack as well as the hands to work on it. It orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and its engineers install and patch the cabling in your rack, so one party handles both the circuit and the physical connection. For Houston requests, a second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site, which means a job does not depend on a single person being available. Beyond the physical work itself, hardware monitoring of your servers and network equipment is available from the Reboot Monkey NOC. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.
How Reboot Monkey Works
These terms apply in every facility in Houston where Reboot Monkey engineers work.
- Response: 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA, and a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. The incident response SLA covers incidents and unplanned requests; on-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.
- Monitoring: 24/7 NOC monitoring across all facilities, covering IPMI, iDRAC, SNMP, temperature, power, network signals.
- Hardware: vendor-neutral technicians for Dell, HP, Cisco, Juniper and Arista equipment.
- Independence: independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff).
- One agreement: single provider across cities, so a customer in several cities needs only one agreement.
- Service levels and terms: https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/solutions/sla
- Published case study: a major ICT provider engaged Reboot Monkey for three full infrastructure rollouts in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, with the hardware installed the same day at every site. Read the case study at https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/resources/case-study/how-we-completed-3-full-deployments-across-pakistan
Houston
The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.
Remote Hands in Other Cities in United States
If your racks are spread across the country, the same remote hands service is available in other US cities. Teams running capacity in the east can arrange Remote Hands in Ashburn, while those with Midwest footprints can look at Remote Hands in Chicago. For Texas and neighbouring regions, Remote Hands in Dallas is available alongside Houston, and mountain-region estates can use Remote Hands in Denver. Organisations with central US equipment can arrange Remote Hands in Kansas City. Using one supplier across these locations keeps the way you raise and track requests consistent.
Related Services
Remote hands often sits next to other work in the same facility. If you are placing new equipment, you can plan Rack and Stack in Houston to mount and cable it. When equipment has to move between racks, rooms or facilities, Server Migration in Houston covers the relocation. If you need space and connectivity first, Colocation in Houston provides rack space inside the facility. When hardware reaches the end of its life, Data Center Decommissioning in Houston covers removal and disposal of retired equipment.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does remote hands cover in Houston?
Remote hands covers physical tasks carried out on your instruction in your rack: reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks. Technical work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge is smart hands, a separate service. Reboot Monkey engineers carry out the work inside the Houston facility under the operator's site rules, and you send the instruction for each task.
Do you provide on-site IT support in Houston data centers?
Yes. Reboot Monkey engineers carry out physical tasks in your rack inside Houston data centers on your instruction, such as reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks. Prices are quoted on request.
Do you work in every datacenter in Houston?
Reboot Monkey engineers work in any facility in Houston where the customer has equipment and access, under the operator's own access and safety rules. The customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list before the first visit.
How fast can Reboot Monkey respond in Houston?
Incidents and unplanned requests are handled under a 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA. There is also a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. On-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.
How is Reboot Monkey different from the facility operator's own staff?
Facility operators' own technicians work for the building. Reboot Monkey engineers work for the customer: they are independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff), follow the customer's instructions, and the same team can cover several buildings in the city under one agreement.
How do I get started with remote hands in Houston?
Send the site, the equipment and the task through the contact form. Reboot Monkey replies with a quote and an engineer plan for that facility. Once agreed, the customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list and the remote hands work is scheduled under the operator's rules.
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Arrange Remote Hands in Houston
Tell us what needs doing in your racks and we will quote the job. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.