How Colocation Cloud Supports Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Strategies

Cloud services are undoubtedly one of the foundational elements of modern digital transformation initiatives across enterprises today. However, even in this staple of the enterprise technology ecosystem, change is underway. There’s a concerted shift towards hybrid cloud services across organisations that seek more flexibility, scalability, and economy, along with a more varied and nuanced toolset. A careful and well-managed mix of private and public cloud infrastructure gives all these benefits and more to these organisations.

Gartner estimates that nearly 90% of organisations will adopt hybrid cloud services by 2027. Additionally, many organisations leverage a host of SaaS applications which effectively translates into adopting a multi-cloud architecture or a hybrid model by extension.

However, as the number of cloud solutions increases within the business’s technology ecosystem, there is rising pressure on tech leaders to maintain high levels of efficiency, and service availability in operations while bringing down costs. Managing complex multi and hybrid cloud ecosystems is undoubtedly harder, often too hard.

Businesses need an effective solution to address the challenges associated with the exploding span of their hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure. This is where colocation data centre providers can play a key role.

Why businesses are considering Colocation?

Businesses can use this to house their IT assets rather than having to build their own private data centre or run hybrid or multi-cloud ecosystems. The colocation service provider maintains the data centre facility and handles all power, maintenance, and security just like a dedicated data centre. Typically, the business owns the hardware installed in the rented physical space.

The benefits of leveraging colocation when businesses opt for a hybrid and multi-cloud strategy

Save costs for cloud services

With colocation, enterprises no longer need to build, manage, and maintain expensive data centres to run their private cloud infrastructure. The cost savings are significant because data centres involve a great deal of physical infrastructure in addition to just storage servers and computing devices. They require electrical units, HVAC, security installations, and much more. Each of these elements will add to the provisioning and maintenance costs as well as the ongoing operating expenses. Colocation service providers can help enterprises manage these costs. The service providers leverage the economies of scale available to them by providing for multiple tenants. Each individual business only needs to pay rent to run their private cloud with guaranteed performance.

Improve operational efficiency of cloud-based services

Colocation data centre providers have their own dedicated engineering and design teams. These are staffed with skilled professionals and they follow recognised industry standards and best practices in maintaining the end-to-end infrastructure and configurations. This allows them to ensure that every cloud solution hosted in their data centre is offered the best deployment environment and is optimised for best performance, low latency, and flexible accessibility. By partnering with them, businesses can run their private cloud infra with assured resilience and availability and focus on more important business objectives rather than on managing technical configurations and architectural complexities.

Increased security for colocation cloud services

Colocation cloud service providers also have robust security protocols and standards in place. This safeguards the cloud services that run on their infrastructure. Ultimately enterprises that run their multi-cloud or hybrid cloud solutions with colocation can experience superior levels of security for their digital assets. Colocation data centres are usually equipped to protect against DDoS attacks, assure fail-proof redundancy and backup, and also invest heavily in physical security initiatives for their data centre facilities. For guaranteed reliability, colocation service providers offer Tier-IV/Rated-4 facilities for critical enterprise workloads. These have the highest levels of guaranteed availability and uptime and are extremely fault-tolerant. Enterprises get the flexibility to choose different colocation configurations for complex and basic workloads. From multiple authentication protocols to even biometric access, there are layers of security provisions that prevent any kind of unauthorized physical entry into colocation data facilities.

Seamless cloud-to-cloud data transfer and management

Hybrid and multi-cloud approaches often encounter scenarios where different cloud services may have to exchange data between public and private cloud infrastructure. This can be a complex ask as well as a security challenge. However, with colocation, this vulnerability is addressed more easily. Most colocation providers allow customers to build point-to-point connections between public and private cloud infrastructure. This prevents any data transmission from using the public internet for transmission. Also, enterprises have more control over their data costs since colocation data centres allow all data to be stored away in inexpensive storage rather than on cloud storage. When a cloud service like an analytics service requires the data, it is supplied on demand for processing. This means that only a small amount of data is handled on the cloud thereby eliminating the need for large cloud storage or computing instances.

Easy scalability

Compared to traditional cloud service providers, colocation partners offer enterprises highly flexible options to rent out the space they need in the data centre. Over time as the business grows, the contract can be easily modified to add additional colocation space, access to more bandwidth, power, data centre resources and tools, and much more. From a cost perspective, this can be a strategic advantage that encourages flexibility as well as scalability.

Colocation offers seamless scalability for businesses relying on high-performance GPUs, which are crucial for industries like gaming and media. These sectors often require AI-driven workloads and high-speed processing to deliver top-notch experiences. By utilising colocation, companies can easily scale up their GPU infrastructure to meet growing demands without compromising on performance, ensuring they can support intensive computing tasks such as real-time rendering, machine learning, and complex simulations.

Choosing the right colocation service provider is the key

Adopting the best portfolio of digital services can only be enabled by a strategic shift to cloud-first technology approaches. Colocation services are the best option for businesses contemplating this shift. They support hybrid cloud infrastructure efficiently while delivering a host of other advantages. Clearly, selecting the right colocation service provider is essential if an enterprise is to harness the true benefits of colocation. This is where Vi Colocation and Cloud Service comes in. Boasting of facilities rated for Tier IV operations at the industry’s lowest PUE, Vi Business can be a major game-changer for enterprises that leverage colocation for their critical data workloads.

Vi Business offers enterprises the choice to not just select from Tier IV or Tier III data centres, but also from different geographical locations within the country such as Mumbai, Bengaluru, Noida and Hyderabad to ensure better performance on the latency front.

We strive to offer unparalleled efficiency and performance guarantee for colocation services with the highest level of security. Our commitment is demonstrated by the large plethora of internationally recognized compliance certifications granted to us such as ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, ISO 9001: 2015, AICPA SOC, AICPA SOC 2, MEITY, PCI DSS and CSA.

Our colocation services have delivered great value to numerous enterprises in India looking to reshape their cloud ecosystem. Get in touch with us to know more.