Why Colocation?
Colocation addresses itself to four value points in summary fashion. First, lower infrastructure costs. By using Colocation at a modern state of the art facility you can reduce the cost of in-house IT infrastructure hardware, the purchasing of bandwidth and network services.
Secondly, lower labor costs as you colocation package includes an expert data centre staff. Your employees are free to focus on their core business, rather than dealing with issues like power maintenance and environmental controls.
Third, your core business will see increased performance since colocation provides for network and Internet access aggregation at the colocation data centre. Your geographical location would not be able to duplicate this redundant service provision without exuberant costs. The 24/7 always up guarantee keeps the monkey wrench out of your daily operation.
And fourth is the ability to handle increased growth and occasional spikes of demand for network resources. Colocation provides resilient flexibility. As your business grows, you need to scale your data centre solution in near real time. Again you could provision for these events in house, but that type of quick expansion is costly in both money and time.
Additionally, colocation provides the opportunity for businesses to assure that their mission-critical data assets are backed up for business continuity or disaster recovery and then the all important on-line security issues become someone else’s headache.