5 ways you can save money by moving your IT

If spending on IT is going up, so is spending on property rent or ownership, especially in places like London. Moving your IT to a colocation data centre would reduce, and potentially even eradicate this requirement. There are some organisations that don’t want to move their data off-premise for security or compliance reasons, but the majority now realise that with the right partner those fears can be easily overcome.

One of the other great benefits of colocation is that you can consolidate and reduce all your basic running costs. Remember, your colocation partner will be providing the cooling, power, bandwidth and physical security for your servers, so it’s a great chance to benefit from their economies of scale and reduced rates. It’s also very convenient to have one bill for all data housing requirements, which in turn saves you the time and money associated with managing multiple suppliers.

Right now, many businesses are moving areas of their infrastructure to the cloud as part of their wider strategy; another way of bringing down costs, especially for areas of their IT that don’t require high levels of security. Most businesses are adopting a hybrid strategy when it comes to cloud because different applications demand different solutions, and colocation is a great way to enable this in order to achieve both the cost savings and performance that you need. At Datum, for example, we can support your hybrid requirements with direct connects between your kit and private and public cloud platforms. Direct connections avoid potential internet issues of speed, reliability and security.