Hosting data off-site via colocation services can provide a lot of benefits to organizations looking to manages costs. The biggest benefit is the fact that using a colocation facility means that you will not need to build a data center – a very considerable expense for any organization regardless of size. There are, of course, other benefits than not needing a data center that we will review as well.
Network costs can be significantly lessened by utilizing a colocation space in a data center as opposed to the costs of utilizing dedicated bandwidth in either a data center built for a company, or using a data closet (simply plugging server infrastructure in a backroom). Datacenter providers such as Vault Networks can leverage multiple providers at once and can significantly reduce networking costs in comparison to what a single company can do on their own. This also doesn’t take the benefit of having redundant providers in play as well – getting TWO providers in your office can be prohibitively expensive, and Vault Networks has much more than just two to ensure that you receive the best latency with the least packet loss and jitter. In effect, not only will the network more likely than not be less costly in our data center, but it will also be significantly better than what any single ISP can provide on their own.
Power costs are much more easily contained in a space that is managed by a colocation provider than it would be when managing it in your own data center. Power can rapidly add up to be one of the largest costs when running mission-critical infrastructure since this is relatively high-end equipment that is running 24x7x365, for the most part. While power isn’t the only cost that can be controlled with colocation – equipment such as power supplies, cabling, and more needs to be replaced all the time when self-managing a data center – it is certainly one of the biggest costs, perhaps on par with the costs to hire a dedicated team to manage the data center.
Colocation also enables you to do things that are inherent in the very name of the service – you can take advantage of the location of the colocation provider to provide services to new markets that you might not be able to take advantage of from your home location. Vault Networks has clients from across the globe utilizing our data center to expand their markets into Latin America and the Caribbean, with home offices ranging from Spain and Germany to Canada and the Midwest of the United States. Germany is an ideal location to take care of much of Europe, but the distance from Germany to Brazil or Colombia is simply too great to provide a decent latency to provide services. Because of this, our clients based in Europe communicate with our data center in Miami to deliver their services to Latin America more effectively than they ever could from the home office.
Finally, you have a team of IT experts available to support you 24x7x365. While it is true that in general one of the benefits of colocation over a service such as the cloud is that you directly control the hardware that you utilize, you also have the ability to reach out to your provider for both support with any connectivity issues you may experience and procurement of any additional hardware you may need to meet your business goals. This gives you an additional team of IT experts dedicated to simplifying your IT experience.
To learn more about Vault Networks and our colocation services, please reach out to us at sales@vaultnetworks.com or by calling us at (305) 735-8098 option 2.