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What is a colocation data center?
I’ve heard the term tossed around by my IT team, but I have absolutely no idea what it means and what relevance it has to our business. Help?
Posted March 3, 2010 in Information Technology
Keywords: data centers, colocation
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Colocation is simply where you put _your_ equipment in someone elses datacentre.
For clients who require custom hardware, specific security/access controls and high-uptime, colo is essential.
For those who need commodity hardware, standard configurations but still a dedicated and high-performance resource, then a dedicated-server rather than colo will be preferable as it becomes the providers responsibility to fix it at 3am when it breaks, rather than you driving 4 hours to the DC with a boot full of spares :)
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