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Data Centre Outsourcing

As computing and server requirements have increased, data centres have had to become much more robust and secure. Many organisations are determining that it is no longer efficient to expand or maintain their own data centre.

We are moving toward the day when only the largest organisations (probably those in the Internet Services and Financial markets), will be able to economically maintain a Data Centre, while the others move to Data Centre Outsourcing.

Data centre outsourcing is being driven by the need to:

• Have strict security accreditations for compliance reasons
• Have the ability to scale server requirements on demand
• Reduce infrastructure costs
• Respond faster to business needs
• Move toward an eco-friendly green data centre hosting environment
• Have access to skills 24x7
• Provide disaster recovery for mission critical online applications

There are two kinds of services for data centre outsourcing:

• Managed hosting services, in which a third party provides all the equipment and services, and
• Managed Colocation, in which the client company provides the IT equipment while a third party provides power and cooling services

"Server huggers" slow data centre outsourcing trend

One of the main issues surrounding outsourcing a data centre is that some companies believe that IT employees should be physically close to the servers they maintain.

IT Staff should be maintaining the applications rather that the infrastructure, security and operating systems and it is a lack of discipline that causes breaches, not physical distance.

One way to start and test data centre outsourcing is to outsource your disaster recovery servers while still holding onto their primary facility.

Contact us for information on how Data Centre Outsourcing can be very cost-effective.