Colocation services permits clients to tap on the infrastructure and expertise of a collocation data center provider. Colocation hosting is the ideal solution for businesses looking to run servers in a data center without additional expenditures on infrastructure and staffing. Customer server equipment is assembled in racks, cages, or private collocation suites, and is managed and maintained by the collocation operator. The colocation data center operator maintains and provides the installation and filtering of uninterruptable power, back-up generators, cooling systems, Internet connectivity, and physical and network security.

Sound Investment for a Data Center

Clients can choose to invest in a variety of colocation services to avail of the highest level of uptime for critical applications, including multiple outside power feeds, transformers, transfer switches, generators, uninterruptible power supplies, redundant HVAC systems, fire suppression, multiple ISP connections and Cisco network infrastructure.

Colocation allows consumers to cost-effectively invest in their data center in increments – one rack or colocation suite at a time – instead of spending huge amounts of capital in creating a completely new data center from the ground up. Furthermore, colocation service allows clients to utilize the expert colocation staff, instead of investing in training new IT staff for your data center management.

A Scalable Solution

Colocation is highly scalable – customers purchase partial shared racks in 5U space sizes, or invest in full private racks with dedicated cage spaces, or private colocation suites. All services permit around-the-clock monitoring of equipment and highly secured cabinets for maximum security and protection. The perfect collocation service is based upon the particular needs of the client as to space, power, and bandwidth. Space refers to the number of racks or square feet of dedicated collocation area while power refers to the amount of voltage and current required for each rack. Internet bandwidth on the other hand is measured in Megabits per second (Mbps) and is offered in several speeds to cater to the specific bandwidth requirements of every client.

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