Colocation Primer
Colocation is a cap-ex free (no capital expense required) alternative to building your own data center. Rather than invest the capital in backup generators, UPS and HVAC units, and network build out, colocation lets you leverage a shared data center that has already made the investment in the infrastructure and personnel training. The data center is shared with other company's IT departments, effectively sharing the data center infrastructure and operating costs across a number of companies.
What is Colocation?
With Colocation services, you leverage the infrastructure and staff expertise of the colocation data center operator by placing your equipment in racks, cages or private colocation suites. The colocation data center provides and manages the physical security, filtered uninterruptable power, back-up generators, cooling, Internet connectivity and network security for your servers.
In addition, you can leverage managed colocation services to make it easier to manage your data center needs through the colocation partner’s staff of trained experts. Colocation services such as remote server monitoring and control, managed back-up across geographically dispersed data centers, advanced network security and remote hands and eyes can significantly reduce the IT staff and overhead required to manage your data center applications.
Why Use Colocation?
Colocation hosting may be ideal if you are looking to run your servers in a high availability data center without taking on the infrastructure and staff costs required to run a world class data center. You can leverage the SAS-70 and PCI audits and HIPAA compliance processes that the date center operator has undertaken and audited at a fraction of the cost of doing it yourself.
You can choose to invest in the multiple outside power feeds, transformers, transfer switches, generators, uninterruptible power supplies, redundant HVAC systems, fire suppression, multiple ISP connections and a redundant Cisco network infrastructure required to deliver the highest level of uptime for your applications. Or you can leverage a colocation data center operator that has already made the investment and can amortize that investment across hundreds of customers.
Colocation allows you to buy your data center incrementally. Rather than invest upfront to build a data center that can meet your needs for the next 5 years, with colocation, you can buy your data center a rack at a time. Colocation also lets you leverage the on-site expertise and training of the colocation operator’s staff, rather than invest in development and retaining of data center expertise on your staff.Live chat
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