When the company’s IT department chose a colocation service in a city only four hours south, I wondered if that was a good idea. What if our area suffers a significant earthquake or another disaster? Our company and the city to the south are close to volcanos and earthquake zones and might be adversely affected simultaneously.
The IT department chose this as part of a disaster recovery plan. What is a colocation service? A data center that holds your servers, providing an environmentally controlled space and power.
Colocation services are not just for disaster recovery but a strategic choice for a small business. An on-site server room takes up space and requires continuous cooling. But you use the public cloud, right?
Are your costs going up? Small businesses reported an increase of 48% in cloud costs in 2022. Managing cloud costs topped an IT manager’s list of IT issues.
What’s a way to keep costs down in this inflationary time? A hybrid solution can stabilize expenses and keep your data secure and out of harm’s way. Does your business require secure and quick retrieval of some data?
Keeping on-premise servers for that data is a must. For information you don’t need as fast and can be off-site, a data center offering colocation, a private cloud, or both works well.
A data center’s private cloud allows you to use server space as needed, like a public cloud. Your data doesn’t float around in servers wherever but resides on servers in that one data center. Your business gains flexibility but maintains security.
Author: Kris Keppeler is a writer who finds technology fascinating and loves humor. She writes on Medium.com, and for Women of Wisdom. An award-winning podcast producer who enjoys telling funny stories. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) @KrisNarrates or on LinkedIn.
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