{"id":5684,"date":"2015-03-09T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T23:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macquarietelecom.com\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T05:41:02","slug":"every-cio-needs-know-colocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/news\/every-cio-needs-know-colocation\/","title":{"rendered":"What Every CIO Needs to Know About Colocation \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authored by Stuart Mills, Head of Solutions Marketing, Hosting\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stuart Mills, Head of Solutions Marketing, Hosting<\/p><\/div>\n

The need to review the approach to operating IT compute and storage is one that needs to be addressed on a periodic basis. To improve margins, companies need to examine operational costs and efficiency regularly. Recent trends in digital technology, cloud computing and mobile devices demonstrate the need for secure digital data storage. Combine these two problems, and one good solution to consider is colocation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Colocation offers several advantages over company-housed IT. However, it is important to understand the pros and cons before taking the plunge. If your business values high security, a flexible IT environment and operational cost reductions, colocation can be the answer you are looking for.<\/p>\n

What are the Key Advantages?<\/h2>\n

Colocation involves moving away from privately held comms rooms or mini data centres, to using a professionally run data centre for production applications hosting, cloud computing<\/a> or a business continuity site. Under this model, you are replacing the expensive and complex activity of running an inefficient in-house data centre, with one run by an organisation that specialises in this.<\/p>\n

In order for you to feel confident you have the right data centre in mind, you should consider its ability to deliver a quality solution in the following areas.<\/p>\n