The benefits of colocation

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Most data centers in-house are getting old and there is a lot of pressure to move assets out of the company. The three most common options are to move to the cloud, a local data center provider, or even a hybrid. Here are some of the core benefits of taking the colocation approach:

Just as cloud hosting services allow customers to move what would normally be capex costs to an operational model, colocation allows companies to do the same with the data center. It is then much easier to increase your operational costs and install more servers at a third-party facility than it is to expand an in-house data center.

Another benefit of colocation is in terms of core competency. Running a proper data center for revenue critical applications takes a team of dedicated and specially trained staff. It is far more efficient and economical to focus on the core competency of the company than it is to maintain the skills and manpower inhouse to keep a data center running.

Colocation is much more than just renting out rack space and related utilities to run a server. Modern data centers offer several related products and services and provide enterprises with a complete data center offering. Expansion, audit services, secure rack spaces, are just few examples of other offerings.

Physical and operational security are two key components of audits that expensive and difficult to maintain. You get both straight away when you colocate. You can expect several layers of physical security at a minimum, and all these will be audited regularly.

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