Break through the Cage!
1. How critical is flexibility in design for your data center facility for both your business and IT team?
Many of today’s compliance and regulatory standards have lead to a very rigid structure when it comes to the data center colocation industry. On top of that, Private Equity entering the market has placed immense pressure on maximizing per square foot margins during a notoriously high cost to enter the Real Estate market.
While location, connectivity, power availability, security, and resiliency are at the forefront of discussion when deciding on your colocation data center space, Design Flexibility is often overlooked.
Today’s technology landscape is drastically different than it was 3 years ago, let alone 10 years ago. Virtualization, along with various cloud and SAAS solutions that have entered the marketplace, have provided businesses the ability to significantly consolidate their IT infrastructure and optimize their network’s capability. This has left most businesses with smaller data center footprints and a need for flexibility in their connectivity needs. Who knows what your technology will look like in another 5 years.
Here are a couple key considerations:
- How can you customize your data center space within a colocation?
- What are my cloud connectivity options should I want to move workloads or test cloud solutions in the future?
- Do you have a security requirement for your own 4 walls to operate your technology?
- Do you have a requirement to have non-shared data center infrastructure?
- Do you have additional physical security requirements not typically found in a colocation facility?
While majority of colocation providers have an extremely rigid deployment in the multi-tenant space of their data center, there are other providers that allow you to have a much more customized and tailored approach to your data center build. If there are new data center infrastructure investments that need to be made
Please email me directly for a full list of data centers with flexible design and cloud connectivity options – [email protected]