IT is definitely critical for every business; but a particular sub-industry in the IT sector is delivering supporting services that are very beneficial for the small and midsized business. They deliver a special kind of data center service which includes rental space (for installing/ keeping hardware or servers) and rental bandwidth.
By availing of these services, the small and medium enterprise can save a significant amount as the service charges asked by such data centers are much lower than the cost that would be incurred if the respective small business used its own facilities.
This cost saving feature, along with high quality service, has become popular among the owners of small and midsized businesses. The popularity of this particular kind of data center originates from a number of advantages that are associated with the services delivered.
Colocation centres are quite popular among small and midsized enterprises
Services that are available
At present numerous data centres of this kind are operating worldwide providing installation and operation space for hardware and bandwidth along with strong security and protection measures for the installed instruments. |
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Technical staff work 24 hours a day ensuring instant support in cases of sudden accidental failure of hardware. These data centers usually maintain large facilities where the hardware of a large number of business enterprises can be kept.
As a large quantity of hardware / servers is being operated, the temperature often rises to a level that is not suitable for sophisticated electronic circuits. To prevent this, quality HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) systems are run so the surrounding environment remains perfect.
Strong security measures are taken by the authority of the data centers to prevent all types of outside theft and hazards. All these services are provided at a reasonable cost which can be afforded by small and medium sized enterprises. This particular type of data center is called a colocation centre.
Nearly 100% uptime is ensured
Besides the low cost of maintenance and bandwidth fee, a small business can also benefit from the impressive uptime provided, close to 100%. Uptime refers to the duration that the servers are found live on the web.Small private hosting agencies or self-hosting by many businesses cannot ensure such high uptime as maintenance and technical difficulties can cause the servers to be withdrawn or remain shut down and out of operation for a period of time. However, these beneficial data centers come with backups for all critical hardware components ensuring almost no shutdown of servers.
Lower vulnerability to natural disasters
Power outages because of heavy snowfall are very common in the winter. Businesses, which maintain their own servers and hardware, can find their servers out of live web operation for such periods of blackout.However, the data centers come with long term power backup allowing the servers to continue operating uninterrupted. Because of all these benefits, these data centers are currently in huge demand all over the world.
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