Flexibility and Scalability are Critical for Growing Companies
Is the one constant change? That may seem like a cliché but is typically quite accurate when it comes to your IT infrastructure.
Evolving needs are the reality in most organizations. Your current infrastructure strategy is likely different from what you expected three years ago. And your forecasts have probably changed as well. There are a lot of reasons that can happen. Changing technology, a pivot on business strategy, budget adjustments, merger & acquisition activity, growth, available talent, compliance changes, and many situations lead to the likelihood that you’ll soon want to be doing things differently from what you imagined not that long ago.
A colocation solution can play an important role in navigating these changes.
Let’s take a look at three use cases out of the many that come to mind.
Startup Succeeds, Cloud Gets Costly: A self-funded startup occurs with the founders bootstrapping to launch and try to grow the business. The initial infrastructure strategy focused on public cloud to limit initial investment and allow for rapid scaling. This preference for renting server capacity instead of owning the IT infrastructure is a smart way to start, but as the business matures, the utility pricing model becomes costly. Once the business model is proven, investing in servers and hosting them in a purpose built colocation facility is a step toward increasing margin and profitability.
Merger of Infrastructure Equals: A larger company acquires a smaller regional competitor, but the acquisition target has a similar infrastructure footprint as the larger organization, with both operating modest in-house data centers. Maintaining them both is inefficient, but the newly larger firm will soon outgrow the IT space they plan to retain. Colocation is a logical step for the blended organization. Specialists now focus on power, connectivity, security, and uptime. Outsourcing results in both talent and some valuable real estate freeing up, with greater data center performance and higher uptime from the move to the purpose-built, professionally run colo facility.
Legacy Data Center Meets Changing Needs: With many applications now running through cloud-based providers and some AI-as-a-Service being evaluated, a two-decade old data center in need of upgrades now has stranded capacity. The significant investment that would be required to refresh the data center to meet current compliance requirements doesn’t make financial or operational sense. Colocation is now the ideal solution.
What are Your Changing Needs? We could provide another dozen scenarios off the top of our heads simply based on situations we’ve handled as well as “what if?” discussions with prospects and customers. If it is time for your organization to have one of those conversations contact us at strategy@directLTx.com and we’ll talk about your requirements, what they look like in the future, and how the connectivity, power infrastructure, operational expertise, and security protocols at Direct LTx can help meet your changing requirements both now and in the future. Be sure to ask us about our uptime record.