On 27 November, the Swindon Chamber end of year meet up will be hosted by nLighten at their Swindon data centre. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in an exclusive guided tour of their state-of-the-art colocation facility, offering a rare behind-the-scenes opportunity to see cutting-edge technology and innovations that power local businesses.
With more businesses of all sizes moving their IT into colocation data centres to run their systems and host cloud solutions, read on to find out more about the potential benefits.
Flexibility
Colocation at a purpose-built data centre compared to an on-premises approach enables businesses to avoid major capital expenditure (Capex) when funding their immediate and future IT requirements. With data centre colocation the costs are met through operating expenditure (Opex), as you effectively rent space for housing your IT equipment along with the critical infrastructure to run it such as power, cooling, network connectivity.
Furthermore, you can scale up or down depending on your computing and cloud needs, rather than being stuck with an in-house data centre or computer room which is either too small or too big and will regularly need technology refreshes.
Security
Increased IT security is another major advantage. Modern local data centres like nLighten’s in Swindon are purpose built for ensuring high physical security and resilience to mitigate risk of unplanned IT downtime, for example, due to power outages, flooding, fire, theft.
Agility
Business users, end customers, IT devices and modern software all demand increasingly fast response times. This requires low latency network connectivity. It’s becoming essential for delivering 5G, IoT and AI-enabled technologies and applications effectively. However, distance-related network latency issues are often the root cause of sluggish response times. For example, this can be experienced with overly centralised cloud computing models where everything is hosted and stored on servers in larger data centres hundreds of miles away.
Basing your IT servers and data storage at a colocation data centre that’s located much closer to your business will ensure your data gets to those that need it much faster, whether it’s users, customers or devices. This delivers many benefits including increased agility, greater productivity, and improved customer service. However, regional data centre quality varies hugely in terms of power availability, resilience, connectivity, security and environmental credentials. It is vital to evaluate these criteria carefully.
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