HOW COLOCATION IMPROVES OVERALL IT PERFORMANCEARIZONA DATA CENTER

ARIZONA DATA CENTERHOW COLOCATION IMPROVES OVERALL IT PERFORMANCE

By leveraging advanced facilities and new building technologies, colocation can enhance performance of many data center environments

Colocation is often confused with outsourcing. Colocation refers to leasing data center space with advanced power and cooling capabilities to maintain hardware

Company’s IT staff decides what equipment to install in space and how to use it, while outsourcing involves the service provider providing and managing IT assets

Colocation at Arizona data center is not mutually exclusive strategy. Many large corporations have both-in house data centers and third party colocations providers

ARIZONA DATA CENTERHOW COLOCATION IMPROVES OVERALL IT PERFORMANCE

Leveraging a Colocation Strategy Colocation at Arizona data center can enhance company’s IT

operations A major benefit of colocation over outsourcing is the ability to

expand easily as requirements change When company wants to innovate, colocation makes perfect sense.

Companies can migrate to new computing platforms quickly and easily by finding facility to match their requirements

Because companies own their IT assets, they can upgrade whenever they want

Flexibility is key characteristic with colocation, while outsourcing contracts require longer term commitment and more rigid terms

ARIZONA DATA CENTERHOW COLOCATION IMPROVES OVERALL IT PERFORMANCE

Leveraging a Colocation Strategy Colocation in the US over the next few years is expected to rise

significantly More organizations continue to discover owning their own

company data center can be expensive and overly complex It can also negatively impact innovation. Legacy infrastructures

limit companies from taking advantage of new technologies Any Arizona data center over 10 years old will need extensive

upgrades to keep up with today’s IT demands

ARIZONA DATA CENTERHOW COLOCATION IMPROVES OVERALL IT PERFORMANCE

Accountabilities in Colocation Companies need to know what services they are getting with each

provider Company needs to fully understand disaster recovery. How will

they operate in a disaster? What services do they provide and what level of availability do they guarantee?

Time frames for planning services should be three to five years Colocation is perfect strategy to help company leverage uptime,

innovation and cost management

ARIZONA DATA CENTERHOW COLOCATION IMPROVES OVERALL IT PERFORMANCE

CyrusOne provides more than 1,000,000 square feet of colocated floor space in top tier data centers across the nation

Colocation facilities are located in Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Cincinnati, Chicago, London and Singapore

Our advanced, highly flexible design architectures support power requirements exceeding 250 kilowatts per square foot

Facilities are designed to provide optimal redundancy, efficiency, security and future proof reliability

ABOUT THE AUTHORNICOLE AGUILLARD IS MARKETING DIRECTOR FOR CYRUSONE, A GLOBAL ENTERPRISE COLOCATION PROVIDER OPERATING 23 HIGHLY SECURE DATA CENTERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, LONDON AND SINGAPORE. LEARN MORE ABOUT AN ARIZONA DATA CENTER BY VISITING HTTP://WWW.CYRUSONE.COM/.