Five Benefits of Data Center Colocation
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Colocation offers significant benefits for businesses facing space, redundancy, and budget challenges. Key advantages include access to professional expertise, improved redundancy and uptime, cost savings, compliance with industry standards, and scalable infrastructure. Choosing colocation can lead to reduced costs, higher availability, compliance assurance, and support for business growth.
Five Benefits of Data Center Colocation
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- 2. Running out of space? Lacking redundancy? Draining your IT budget?
- 3. If you said yes to any of these questions, then colocation is an option worth exploring.
- 4. The Top 5 Benefits of Colocation: 1. Professional expertise 2. Redundancy 3. CAPEX savings 4. Compliance 5. Scalability
- 6. Colocation providers are experts in their field: • Trained in both network and facilities management • Continual monitoring of the network and data center facility • Ability to respond immediately to any issues that may arise
- 8. A well-equipped data center has more than 1 of everything: • Power feeds • Backup generators • Cooling systems • Connectivity pathways Ensuring full redundancy and higher uptime levels.
- 10. Buying colocation space is much more cost- effective than building and maintaining your own data center space. To learn just how colocation can save you money, check out our recent blog post.
- 12. A compliant data center can help you stay in full compliance with many different standards, including: SSAE-16 HIPAA HITECH PCI
- 14. Colocation facilities provide you with room to grow, so your infrastructure won’t get in the way of your growing business. For a real-life look at how colocation can bring scalability to a growing business, check out this client case study.
- 15. When you choose colocation, you can expect to: • Save money • See higher system uptime • Stay (or become) compliant • Grow your business without IT limitations • Sleep better at the end of the day It’s one of the best business decisions you can make.
- 16. For more data center insights, and to learn more about Data Cave, check out our Blog at www.thedatacave.com! We cover a wide range of topics on the data center industry. Copyright © 2015 Data Cave, Inc. All rights reserved.