Colocation services let businesses host their IT infrastructure in data centers, thus eliminating the need to build the physical data center or to take on the initial expenses associated with traditional hardware infrastructure. Colocation facilities also provide cooling as well as power and security. This lets customers cut down on their operating costs (OPEX), by eliminating the need to maintain their own equipment.
Colocation offers almost limitless scalability. This allows companies to increase their resources in accordance with business growth and changing IT requirements. This allows startups to stay clear of large upfront investments and provides a cost-effective way for expanding resources.
Additionally the flexibility and reliability of colocation can allow companies to improve performance and redundancy to minimize the risks of business downtime. A colocation datacenter may provide, for instance, low-latency edge computing performance with high-performance connectivity to support real-time applications and ensure uptime.
A colocation service allows companies to connect to colocation meaning multiple cloud providers, third party vendors and other sites via the use of carrier neutrality and dedicated connections to ensure the best connectivity for their infrastructure. This opens up a variety of new opportunities for expansion of business, while reducing the complexity of operations and allowing seamless expansion across geographical regions and cloud ecosystems.
Many colocation providers provide dedicated racks, cages and cabinets to house the customer’s IT infrastructure. Dedicated space comes with dedicated bandwidth and access to the network of the facility, and on-site support engineers that can take care of your IT needs whenever required.
