Colocation services allow businesses to host their IT infrastructure in a data center, removing the need to purchase a physical data center or to take on the initial costs of traditional hardware infrastructure. Colocation facilities also provide cooling power, power, and security. This lets customers cut down on their operating costs (OPEX), by eliminating the need to maintain equipment themselves.
With almost unlimited scalability colocation allows enterprises to scale resources according to the growth of their business and evolving IT requirements. This helps startups avoid costly upfront investments and also provides a cost-effective route for expansion of resources.
Moreover the flexibility and reliability of colocation can allow companies to boost performance and redundancy to mitigate business downtime risks. For instance, a colocation data center can offer low latency edge computing performance and high-performance connectivity to support real-time applications and ensure uptime.
Colocation services can also enable businesses to connect to a variety cloud providers, third-party vendors and other sites via carrier neutrality, providing the most optimal connectivity for their infrastructure. This allows for a range of additional opportunities for business growth, while reducing the amount of work and allowing seamless expansion across different geographies 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, as well as dedicated on-site support engineers that can take care of your IT needs whenever needed.