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1. Managed Hosting - Minimize Your Data Center
Footprint By Outsourcing Your IT Infrastructure
Managed hosting is essentially procuring dedicated hardware from your hosting service provider
on a utility-based model or as a service. Your service provider also maintains and provides
support for managing the hardware in their data center. The maintenance and support in a
managed hosting arrangement is an icing on the cake simply because you do not have to do it
yourself. Your service provider does it on a grand scale as one of its key services and its highly
unlikely that your IT deployment will present any challenge(s) that they have not faced and
solved before.
Technology refresh is an added advantage of managed hosting; your organization does not have
to worry about the most current technology upgrades or hardware obsolescence as your hosting
provider constantly upgrades the systems and servers. With managed hosting you can be rest
assured that your IT infrastructure keeps pace with your company’s growth plans and you do not
have to worry about how you can scale your IT to meet those growth plans. Perhaps the biggest
advantage of managed hosting is that you do not have to make huge and permanent investments
in maintaining you own IT infrastructure meaning that you can convert CapExto OpEx, thus,
freeing up budget for more strategic capital investments.
Your IT department can focus on business priorities and strategic tasks rather than spend time
and bandwidth on troubleshooting day-to-day infrastructure related issues. With managed
hosting you can reduce manpower costs, as cost of hiring and retaining skilled IT staff can be
extremely high. So all in all a win-win situation, expertise coupled with competitive SLAs can
help your organization focus on more strategic issues, gain cost efficiencies and divert
investments where they are needed the most.
Colocation: Minimizeyour Data Centerfootprint And Still
Maintain Control Over Your Hardware

2. Though, outsourcing your complete IT infrastructure can give you some significant advantages
but given your distinct organizational needs, you may want to own and maintain control over
your IT infrastructure for certain workloads. This holds true for companies in financial services,
pharma, development and testing sectors where the nature of business requires adherence to
compliance and regulatory restrictions. In other cases, your company may already have invested
in its own hardware and may not want to divest that.
In such cases, colocation is the ideal option; you do not have to worry on account of sunk costs.
With colocation, you can move your hardware off premises to your colocation service provider’s
datacenter. If your provider has a high-density data center, you can even minimize your data
center footprint. The beauty of colocation is that you choose and purchase your own hardware,
own it, control it and maintain it in the provider’s environment - this saves you capital costs of
building your own data center.
As your business expands, you may need more space, more power, more bandwidth to maintain
and run your own facility, colocation is an ideal option for reducing capital expenditure. It
enables you to maintain control over your IT assets and at the same time take advantage of the
breadth and depth of your colocation provider’s expertise in running and operating data centers.
Though you would definitely benefit on the cost front with a fully managed hosting environment
simply because your CapEx gets converted to OpEx, your organization can avail of an array of
Managed IT services that your provider may offer. With Managed IT services, you can look at
offloading maintenance, support and technology upgrades/refresh and even supplement your
servers with managed storage solutions from your colocation service provider.
Colocation Vs. Managed Hosting: Which Is Better?
I am sure, with the above analysis on colocation and managed hosting, you would have a fair
idea about the benefits and the trade offs of both options. It is not unusual for companies to go
for colocation first and then move on to managed hostingwhen their hardware needs an upgrade
or refresh. However, whether you decide to go for a colocation data center ormanaged dedicated
hosting depends on your organization’s specific needs. Today, more and more organizations are

3. realizing that a combination is the best fit for their unique mix of workloads – the age of Hybrid
IT has finally arrived.