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What is Colocation?
Colocation centers provide and manage the physical security, filtered uninterruptable power, back-up generators, cooling, Internet connectivity and network security for your servers by placing your network equipment in racks, cages, or private Colocation suites.
Managed Colocation services provide a staff of trained experts to make it easier to control your data center needs. Services such as remote server monitoring and control, managed back-up across geographically dispersed data centers, advanced network security, and remote hands and eyes cansignificantly reduce the IT staff and overhead required to manage your data center applications.
Why Use Colocation?
Colocation hosting is ideal for those who are looking to run their servers in a high availability data center without taking on the infrastructure and staff costs required to run a world class data center.
You can choose to invest in the multiple outside power feeds, transformers, transfer switches,generators, uninterruptible power supplies, redundant HVAC systems, fire suppression, multiple ISP Connections and a redundant Cisco network infrastructure required to deliver the highest level ofuptime for your applications; or, you can leverage a Colocation data center operator that has alreadymade the investment and amortizes it across hundreds of customers.
Colocation gives you the opportunity to buy your data center incrementally. Rather than invest a large sum upfront to build a data center that can meet your needs for the next 5 years, with Colocation, you can buy your data center a rack at a time. Colocation also lets you leverage the on-site expertise and training of the Colocation operator's staff.
How to Buy Colocation
Colocation can be scaled to meet your requirements. Select from partial shared racks in 5U increments of rack space, up to full private racks, and dedicated cage space or private Colocation suites. All allow 24x7 access to your collocated equipment, and use locked cabinets to assure your equipment is fully secure and protected.
Three factors that drive your Colocation choices and costs:
Space number of racks or square feet of dedicated Colocation area that you need
Power power required in each rack, specified by voltage and current (Amps)
Internet bandwidth typically measured in Megabits per second (Mbps)
At EasyT1.net, we partner with the top providers of Colocation Services to help you choose the right solution for your business. From a partial rack to complete data center, EasyT1.net can help your team achieve the results needed for your business. Through our extensive partnerships, we have access to the most competitive pricing in the industry. Please contact us today to find out what we can do for you.
