Colocation data centres: the ideal hybrid between cloud and on-premise

Colocation enables you to take particularly sensitive data off-premise whilst avoiding moving it to the cloud. Stored in a secure local facility, you know exactly where it is, who is maintaining it plus how they are guaranteeing its safety and resilience for your business... giving you complete peace of mind. This could be particularly useful for organisations that want to shed their in-house IT but still need to comply with stringent regulations like the forthcoming GDPR, as well as anything already in place.

Colocation also offers you great flexibility when you’ve decided that some of your data (or apps) are not suitable for the public cloud, but you still want to benefit from cloud-like scalability. You can scale up or down your rack space as required, which can be great for helping you manage your digital transformation process as well as catering for changing requirements – make sure that your partner agreement allows for this, though.

Colocation is essentially a perfect middle-ground when you don’t want to move data to the cloud, but you do want to save money compared to running your own on-premise facilities. You can eradicate all the costs associated with managing buildings, cooling, power, bandwidth and physical security etc. Scaling with your business also means you’re never paying more than you have to, which isn’t a luxury you have when running your own premises.