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COLOCATION
Business
benefits of
colocation
by Ben Brown, 4D Data Centres
www.4d-dc.com
Lots of things can conspire to slow
business expansion, and one of the
biggest brakes on growth is IT
When your business reaches a certain size, you tend to end
up with a lot of budget and resource tied up in housing,
managing and maintaining your servers. That’s budget
and resource that, in an ideal world, you could release to
re-invest in growth initiatives.
You might think that a growing IT estate is a necessary
cost of being an expanding and successful business. But
actually, there’s a very simple strategy to reduce those levels
of cost and resource and free your business to grow. It’s
called colocation, and we’re going to look at four ways it can
help you achieve your business goals.
What is colocation?
Colocation is when you install your servers in a professionally
managed data centre, rather than on your own premises.
So instead of having to find space in your own building, pay
for expensive cooling, and handle the maintenance of your
servers, you pay an external provider to do it for you as part
of a colocation service.
High-speed network connections between your premises
and their data centre give you rapid access to your servers
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