RECALL Guide to Colocation WP_022516
- 1. RECALL’S GUIDE TO COLOCATION SERVICES 1 Copyright 2015 Recall. All rights reserved. RECALL’S GUIDE TO COLOCATION SERVICES COLOCATION: A popular option for companies with midsize IT needs.
- 2. RECALL’S GUIDE TO COLOCATION SERVICES 2 Copyright 2015 Recall. All rights reserved. CONTENT Opportunities....................................................................................... What is Colocation.............................................................................. Why Now............................................................................................. Benefits of Colocation Include............................................................. Data Center Services.......................................................................... Facility Specifications.......................................................................... What’s Included................................................................................... Economies of Scale............................................................................. Profiles of Colocation Customers........................................................ 3 4 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 “A COLO FACILITY WHERE MANY CARRIERS ARE PHYSICALLY PRESENT IS OFTEN CALLED A ‘CARRIER HOTEL’”
- 3. RECALL’S GUIDE TO COLOCATION SERVICES 3 Copyright 2015 Recall. All rights reserved. DISASTER RECOVERY Do you need a Disaster Recovery or Business Recovery option for your organization? Opportunities: As companies grow and begin to shift from individual servers to networked systems, they are realizing that the original benefit of running their own server room is being outweighed by the advantages of a colocation solution provider. Recall’s Colocation services help your business connect globally, quickly and securely with resilient internet connections, redundant & monitored network solutions, and large customer bandwidth availability. Also, Recall Colocation services are located in major metropolitan areas providing the advantages of attractive power capabilities, city services, transportation and infrastructure to support your organization’s requirements. Recall’s footprint of 30+ information centers provide our customers with a network of world-class offsite options. Recall’s Colocation services assist our customers with the ability to focus their IT team on maximizing the potential of their core business and realizing reductions in operational expenditures. Recall’s Colocation team is available 24/7/365 to monitor your systems, apply smart and remote hands to re-boot devices, ReSwap backup media, and provide oversight when servers and equipment fail. Recall Colocation services specializes in data center and network services allowing you the freedom to invest capital elsewhere. Today, Recall Colocation services provides your organization with a fully auditable process, giving you complete visibility and control of your infrastructure. As a part of our standard, Recall Colocation provides customers with a variety of customer enclosures, cages, or square foot layouts. Customers expect high levels of security and accredited industry compliance. Recall meets your expectations with industry standard certifications including PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOC & HIPAA. Additionally, Recall Colocation services continually applies new industry leading procedures and services to facilitate our customers future innovation. OPPORTUNITIES
- 4. RECALL’S GUIDE TO COLOCATION SERVICES 4 Copyright 2015 Recall. All rights reserved. 100,000 Significant benefits of scale result in large colocation facilities, 50,000 to 100,000 square feet What is colocation: Colocation refers to the practice of housing your servers and devices in a professional data center in order to access economies of scale, advanced infrastructure, greater bandwidth, lower latency, specialist services and systems, constant security and a whole host of additional advantages. Greater resilience to disaster and to malicious attack, huge savings available in cost and time and the sheer convenience of an environment in which every conceivable service is immediately on hand — it all adds up to a logical argument for colocation services as the best strategy for many businesses. Why now? Colocation services have become a popular option for companies with midsize IT needs—especially those in Internet related businesses. It allows companies to focus IT staff on core responsibilities, instead of the logistical support needs which underlie the work. Significant benefits of scale (large power and mechanical systems) result in large colocation facilities, typically 4500 to 9500 square metres (roughly 50,000 to 100,000 square feet). Benefits of colocation include: • A predictable and operational expenditure model • Additional capacity can be brought on quickly, cheaply, and only as needed • Better access to space and power • Experienced professionals managing your data center facility • An ecosystem of partners in the same facility • Dedicated infrastructure to build your cloud strategy • Lean infrastructure to manage during times of rapid business change • A better road map for disaster recovery COLOCATION
- 5. RECALL’S GUIDE TO COLOCATION SERVICES 5 Copyright 2015 Recall. All rights reserved. Facility Specifications: • 40,000 sq ft flexible use facility • Backup generators • 24/7/365 Recall security • N+1 Mechanical • Integrated staging rooms • Multiple utility feeds • Redundant air handlers • Flexible data room and rack layout & high density ready • Full, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, or per U • Carrier neutral • Digital cameras & monitoring • Dual authentication access control • Cloud neutral • 24 inch raised flooring • Multiple fiber entrance • Biometrics security • Secure loading docks • Overhead cable distribution • Lobby, break & conference areas Data Center Services: • Migration & Installation services • Smart Hands • IT equipment asset tracking • Offsite Data Protection • Tape vaulting • Cloud backup • Custom Networks Services • Internet • Fiber SQ FT FLEXIBLE USE FACILITY 40,000 Colocation services allow IT staff to focus on core responsibilities.
- 6. RECALL’S GUIDE TO COLOCATION SERVICES 6 Copyright 2015 Recall. All rights reserved. What’s included: • Lockable rack cabinets or cages • Power in a variety of formats, AC and DC • Network connectivity—either in a ‘house blend’, where the colo provider is a customer of carriers, and connects their clients to their own router for access to multiple carriers, or as direct ‘cross-connect’ access to the routers of the carriers themselves, or both, cooling • Physical security (including video surveillance, biometric and badge access, logging, and the like), and • Real-time live monitoring of all these functions for failures They also provide redundant systems for, usually, all of these features, to mitigate the problems when each inevitably fails. Colocation services ease CAPEX (or capital expenditures). Economies of scale: • Higher reliability due to redundant systems • 24/7 monitoring by engineers • Lower network latency and higher bandwidth at a lower cost • Specialist staff, which is more economical to pay ‘as needed’ rather than keep permanently on staff Profiles of Colocation customers: • Web commerce companies, who use the facilities for a safe environment and cost-effective, redundant connections to the Internet • Major enterprises, who use the facility for disaster avoidance, offsite data backup and business continuity • Telecommunication companies, who use the facilities to exchange traffic with other telecommunications companies and access to potential clients—a colo facility where many carriers are physically present is often called a ‘carrier hotel’; the presence of such a facility at a colo increases its value to some classes of potential customers • eCommerce sites, who use the facilities to house servers dedicated to processing secure transactions online Typically, colocation services offer the physical infrastructure, power, security, cooling, and bandwidth options while the clients provide specialized server and storage equipment. Space within Recall’s facility is customized to fit the customer’s requirements; full rack, partial rack, secure cages, and custom square footage. Many business owners incorporate colocation services in their planning strategy to manage capacity issues caused by space constraints in their main data center and to minimize the impact of CAPEX (capital expenditures) usually associated with a large building or managing a big computing facility. Additionally in recent times, customers are also utilizing colocation facilities to deploy their computing resources to be in closer proximity to remote locations, for disaster recovery considerations, and for cloud computing strategies. “Incorporate colocation services to better manage space and capacity issues.” To learn more about Colocation Services with Recall, please call 1.888.RECALL6