True… Companies today are looking for more ways than ever to save on costs, however you don’t
have to sacrifice security, performance, and redundancy to acheive those savings.
There are datacenter providers out there today that are fully redundant, with multiple power sources,
redundant bandwidth carriers (and lots of it) as well as properly secured, with SAS70 Type II compliance.
What many companies don’t consider is the price or cost of NOT hosting their gear in a
secure facility. Yes you could ride the radar for a while on a hope and a prayer of “nothing going wrong”, but
consider the outcome if any of the following were happen.Below is a list of the “What If’s” of housing your gear
on site in a “make-Shift” datacenter.
a) Single carrier bandwidth link loses connection (not to mention the cost of this extra bandwidth to your location)
b) Power outages at your office location
c) Gear Failure and Loss because of non-properly cooled facilities or location
d) Stolen Gear or Theft from under-secured, or non-secured facilities
e) Lack of scalability because of non-compliance issues, jeapordizing the ability to land those accounts that require
SAs70 Type II, PCI, HIPPA, or Sarbanes Oxley
f) and the list goes on.
These types of outages or incidents not only can cause serious monetary losses for your company, but could put you
out of business all together.
80% of companies that experience a Disaster affecting their production and don’t have a plan in place, never make it back and are out of business. Considering that all the risks listed above would be considered a disaster to your business, it’s safe to say that companies who don’t plan for the worst, are leaving everything at risk.
Looking at those risks, and considering the actual extra cost of the power, bandwidth, and security measures to house
the gear, it’s easy to see why many companies are choosing to colocate their gear or host it in a Top Tier Facility.
Most facilites have 24/7 NOC (Network Operations Centers) which can add a second layer of support for you if
you can’t readily be available to make a drive to the datacenter. Many Datacenter or Colocation Facilities also
add in a 3rd layer of managed services, that could help small to medium sized or even Enterprise sized companies
reduce or eliminate an entire unnecessary expense, or fill a gap of unavailable expertise within the organization.
