Trend Report

Consider Colocation As A Key To Your Holistic Data Center Strategy

Evolved Options Can Help Optimize Your Technology Ecosystem

Sophia I. Vargas
 and  four contributors
Jul 25, 2014

Summary

As your business depends more on technology services for daily operations and customer engagement platforms, data center capacity demands will continue to increase. You now face a more urgent task of selecting the ideal sources for new IT capacity that will deliver the best experience for end users — both business users and customers. The range of options can be confusing, large in number, ever changing, and can have a variety of risks and benefits. With vetted solutions ranging from fully in-house to fully managed, you must balance performance and economics against risk and competency to select the best environment for a given service. This report discusses the tactical and strategic elements of this decision and presents an overview of the US colocation market as a potential component of this solution.

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