Category Archives: Managed Colocation

Colocation: Managed or unmanaged?

 

Constant investments in your IT assets can result in a competitive advantage, increased efficiency, and even in a higher revenue for your company. On the other hand, with the vastly evolving nature of technology, high upfront investments in sophisticated IT infrastructure might be risky. Combining the unsteady nature of IT and the fluctuating, global economy, colocation might be a perfect solution to this dilemma.

 

Colocation buyers can profit from their provider’s cutting-edge data centre infrastructure including cooling, raised floors, and surveillance, while paying just for the rack space they are using. Moreover, colocation services are easily scalable (read more about the advantages of colocation hosting). However, having decided to colocate your web hosting with an external colocation service provider is only half the battle. There is the other important question of managed versus unmanaged colocation?

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The Maze of Data Center Ownership Costs: To build or not to build?

data center ownershipOne major reason why data center owners might fail is the underestimation and miscalculation of data center ownership costs. Due to the fragmented nature of the industry, even experienced providers face difficulties with pinpointing their exact ownership costs. Running a data center needs to be associated with many different types of cost expenses. Some of these expenses are obvious and predictable while others might be tricky and unforeseeable. This article looks at data center ownership costs and ways to keep it all in check.

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Cloud Colocation: The Next Generation in Data Center Hosting?

 

Cloud ColocationMany observers of the data center industry describe colocation as a threat of the cloud. The argument in white papers and public discussions is often guided by the general thought of cloud vs. colocation. In contrast to this dominant view, one can argue that it is much more insightful to look at colocation as an enabler of the cloud rather than an opponent. In fact, colocation might offer the ideal environment that can deliver dedicated infrastructure for the cloud to expand.

 

Nowadays, data center hosts witness an all time high demand for cost-efficient data center services with enough capacity and power to handle massive amounts of data. Consequently, trends of increasing virtualization to solve this issue of storage space not only emerge but are projected to soon conquer the market. With this rapidly growing demand for data space, handling one’s company’s private cloud possesses a challenge to CIOs. To adopt a realistic view, very few companies can possibly benefit from hosting their own cloud unless they are large corporations.

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