Data Center Colocation Services and Your Business

 
There are some very good reasons for businesses that need internet services to turn to data center colocation instead of hosting their own IT data center. Let’s look at a few ways these companies and organizations can benefit from data center colocation services.

What are Data Center Colocation Services?

Data center colocation services allow a client company to place their physical servers in the provider’s data center. This allows medium-sized and small-sized businesses to maintain their servers in a top quality hosting facility without having to invest in their own server infrastructure.

Most colocation services provide a full service IT center with redundancy and security for their clients’ servers. Some colocation providers also offer management and maintenance of the servers and the data stored therein. Fees for colocation vary based on bandwidth, power and rack space. Bandwidth is usually sold in 10M increments, power is usually sold in 20 amps, 120V increments and space is usually sold by the cabinet (40U’s).

Benefits of Data Center Colocation Services

There are several benefits for business to use these types of colocation services. It is often primarily because the client has a need for a safe and secure physical environment where they can store their data servers. Below are some additional benefits:

• Using colocation services can lower the IT facility and space costs for the client. It is often less expensive to store data at a provider facility than to develop top quality hosting infrastructure on-site.
• Most colocation providers have millions of dollars of technology invested into the infrastructure of their data center, including the security and redundancy offered through their services. This level of infrastructure, redundancy, and security would be very costly for most medium-sized businesses.
• The redundancy and infrastructure offered through a colocation provider typically will increase server up-time. In addition, management and maintenance services typically minimize the potential down-time when issues arise.
• Many colocation data centers allow for easy expansion to house additional servers and/or disk space, which allows for the scalability needed to keep costs as efficient as possible.
• The colocation provider may offer the client with 24/7 monitoring and management services.
• There are numerous additional features that are offered by colocation providers, including remote maintenance and backup, diverse power, BGP and Mirrored Services.

To find out how your company can save money on your hosting services, contact one of the helpful geniuses at AeroCom implement a colocation solution that is right for you.