Why IT Is Increasing Investments in Colocation

Why IT Is Increasing Investments in Colocation

Needing more scalable use of data with better network connectivity, data center managers are increasingly looking into colocation options.

65% of the data center managers surveyed said they are currently using colocation, or plan to within the next 12 months.

57% said they expect their use of colocation services to increase over the next two years.

80% of the data center managers surveyed are using either off-premises or hybrid data centers.

35% said they’ve expanded data center capacity within the past two years by adding to the data center without physically expanding it; 30% said they’ve done so by using the cloud without colocation; and 25% have expanded capacity with colocation.

52% of the data center managers surveyed use colocation data centers as a backup; 44% use them as primary data centers for computing and critical infrastructure; and more than 33% use them for cloud services.

Better future scalability: 32%,
Network and edge connectivity: 22%,
Lack of staffing to support expansion: 13%

Cost: 45%,
Security: 31%,
Internal staffing: 18%

Storage management: 74%,
Email: 66%,
Database services: 59%,
Web servers: 54%,
Communication/collaboration: 48%