A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF DATA CENTRE COLOCATION
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A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF DATA CENTRE COLOCATION
Whether it is instilling IT infrastructure with the resilience required to keep up with today ’ s technology-defined operational structures , or finding the right skilled workers to maintain them , the advantage of co-located over on-premises data centres is clear from the perspective of cost-benefit . Co-location data centres provide a predictable and scalable cost structure , so an organisation only pays for what it uses , meaning they have access to as little or as much space , power and cooling as necessary .
Public cloud has also gained huge momentum as an alternative to a traditional co-location approach . Its speed and agility can be incredibly well-suited for a great deal of the workloads being used today . Across our own business , we have replicated our European data centre into the public cloud which has given us
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