Arizona Data Center: How Colocation Improves Overall IT Performance

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Arizona Data Center

• How Colocation Improves Overall IT Performance

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Arizona Data Center

• How Colocation Improves Overall IT Performance

• By leveraging advanced facilities and new
  building technologies, colocation can enhance
  performance of many data center environments
• Colocation is often confused with outsourcing.
  Colocation refers to leasing data center space
  with advanced power and cooling capabilities to
  maintain hardware
• Companys IT staff decides what equipment to
  install in space and how to use it, while
  outsourcing involves the service provider
  providing and managing IT assets
• Colocation at Arizona data center is not mutually
  exclusive strategy. Many large corporations have
  both-in house data centers and third party
  colocations providers

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Arizona Data Center

• How Colocation Improves Overall IT Performance

• Leveraging a Colocation Strategy
• Colocation at Arizona data center can enhance
  companys IT operations
• A major benefit of colocation over outsourcing is
  the ability to expand easily as requirements
  change
• When company wants to innovate, colocation makes
  perfect sense. Companies can migrate to new
  computing platforms quickly and easily by finding
  facility to match their requirements
• Because companies own their IT assets, they can
  upgrade whenever they want
• Flexibility is key characteristic with
  colocation, while outsourcing contracts require
  longer term commitment and more rigid terms

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Arizona Data Center

• How Colocation Improves Overall IT Performance

• Leveraging a Colocation Strategy
• Colocation in the US over the next few years is
  expected to rise significantly
• More organizations continue to discover owning
  their own company data center can be expensive
  and overly complex
• It can also negatively impact innovation. Legacy
  infrastructures limit companies from taking
  advantage of new technologies
• Any Arizona data center over 10 years old will
  need extensive upgrades to keep up with todays
  IT demands

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Arizona Data Center

• How Colocation Improves Overall IT Performance

• Accountabilities in Colocation
• Companies need to know what services they are
  getting with each provider
• Company needs to fully understand disaster
  recovery. How will they operate in a disaster?
  What services do they provide and what level of
  availability do they guarantee?
• Time frames for planning services should be three
  to five years
• Colocation is perfect strategy to help company
  leverage uptime, innovation and cost management

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Arizona Data Center

• How Colocation Improves Overall IT Performance

• CyrusOne provides more than 1,000,000 square feet
  of colocated floor space in top tier data centers
  across the nation
• Colocation facilities are located in Houston,
  Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Cincinnati, Chicago,
  London and Singapore
• Our advanced, highly flexible design
  architectures support power requirements
  exceeding 250 kilowatts per square foot
• Facilities are designed to provide optimal
  redundancy, efficiency, security and future proof
  reliability

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About the author

• Nicole Aguillard is marketing director for
  CyrusOne, a global enterprise colocation provider
  operating 23 highly secure data centers across
  the United States, London and Singapore. Learn
  more about an Arizona Data Center by visiting
  http//www.cyrusone.com/.