Colocation Facility

Colocation Data Centres

Find out about the benefits of a colocation facility, offsite data storage, servers, networks and backup systems for your business.

• Web Hosting
• Backup Software
• Data Recovery

A colocation facility is a data storage facility where customers can effectively 'rent' space to run their web activity from. Customers can run their network, server and data backups from a colocation data centre with minimum cost and complexity, making the need for an onsite dedicated data centre redundant.

Colocation centre usage is becoming an increasingly popular option for companies which run a large portion of their business on the web, such as e-commerce sites and telecommunications companies, and also large enterprises. Colocation usage saves time and money by using a shared data centre infrastructure, and leaves a company's data in a safe, secure offsite location.

Because of the nature of the data stored by several different customers at a colocation data centre, they are extremely safe locations. Fire protection is of the upmost importance, as it is standard operating procedure for a colocation centre to have passive and active fire protection features, often including clean agent gaseous systems, which are able to suppress a fire quicker than sprinkler systems. Additionally, sprinkler systems are always standard, as well as physical fire walls and other fire safety features.

Furthermore, air conditioning is an essential element of colocation facilities, used to control the temperature and humidity produced by the machines. In case of power failure, colocation data centres usually have generators running on alternative fuel, as well as battery backup systems

Benefits of Using a Colocation Data Centre:

• Safe, secure, offsite backup and data recovery.
• Reduction of traffic back-haul costs, and freeing up internal networks for other uses
• Increase website access speeds by outsourcing network traffic to a facility with bigger bandwidth capacity
• Locked, individual cabinets/cages for individual customers
• Many centres have high levels of physical security including guards and CCTV

For more information and to find a colocation and web hosting facility, check out the NZS.com directory.

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