Why choose colocation? Running a business requires a great amount of time and effort. Managing one’s own IT infrastructure is demanding, resource intensive and requires expertise. As a result, it can have a limiting effect on an organization’s ability to focus on developing, servicing and selling their own products and services. By utilizing a carrier-neutral data center services provider to collocate IT and network infrastructure, companies receive numerous benefits including :
• save time
• no dedicated facility management resources,
• power and cooling scalability,
• increased connectivity options with competitive cost benefits,
• scalable higher level IT services on demand or shared Managed IT capabilities,
• save money.
Data centers typically provide competitive telecommunication options by having easy access to multiple networks. This empowers choices and routing options.
Availability of caged or common colocation space, or dedicated suites, with scalable power options, allows your business to scale or ‘grow” to accommodate your organization’s custom solution development needs as your technology evolves. You get “on–demand” power needed for clearly less money and time than it takes to build or expand your own data center. Uninterrupted power is essential when it comes to successfully operating any size business.
Keeping your data secure and avoiding downtime is a primary concern for most businesses. Premium Data Center providers typically provide layered security procedures and uptime guarantees (SLA) of 99.99% or higher, ensuring your business runs smoothly at all times. They also implement strict building and access standards, which limit exposure to naturally occurring events (hurricanes, floods, earth quakes, etc.) and unwanted visitors. Some facilities may also include pre-staged dedicated or shared Disaster Recovery – Business Continuity space for your personnel should your current facilities become inaccessible or unusable.
Climate controlled environments keep your equipment performing at optimal level. A well planned and managed data center provides the required cooling capabilities and temperature needed, with SLA guarantees 99.99% or higher, needed to help your servers function optimally. They also have 24X7 staff available to quickly and efficiently fix a problem.
Colocation offers cost effective and convenient data center options. These empower Clients’ with the freedom to dedicate their time to the more important daily business, service and customer development tasks. By utilizing a data center provider, such as TELEHOUSE, businesses have room to constantly grow and evolve without the worry or cost complications in owning and managing theses complex facilities.