Colocation services enable businesses to host their IT Infrastructure in a datacenter, eliminating the requirement to invest in the physical datacenter or shoulder upfront costs associated with traditional hardware infrastructure. Colocation facilities also provide cooling power, power, and security. This allows customers to cut their operational costs (OPEX), by eliminating the requirement to maintain equipment on their own.
Colocation can be scaled to almost infinite levels. This allows businesses to scale their resources in keeping with business growth and changing IT requirements. This enables startups to avoid costly upfront investments and provides a cost-efficient path to expand resources.
Colocation’s versatility and reliability permits companies to boost their performance and redundancy, making it less risky for business downtime. A colocation datacenter can offer, for instance, low-latency edge computing with high-performance connectivity in order to support real-time apps and ensure uptime.
Colocation services also permit businesses to connect to a variety cloud providers, third-party vendors, and other websites via carrier neutrality, ensuring most efficient connectivity for their infrastructure. This opens up a variety of possibilities for business growth, while also reducing the complexity of operations and allowing seamless expansion across geographical regions and cloud ecosystems.
Many colocation providers provide racks, cages and cabinets to house the IT infrastructure of their customers. The space is dedicated and comes with bandwidth and access to the network of the facility, along with dedicated on-site support engineers that can address your IT needs when needed.