Back in 2005, the meaning of data centers and collocation for the tech world was similar to what blockchain and AI is today. Ιt was a very expensive “sport” that few could practice, fewer had the resources to leverage, yet almost everyone identified as an asset about to become a necessity. 

Today however, data centers and collocation have evolved into a great necessity not only for large organizations but also for SMEs looking for a resilient and secure environment to develop services of the highest quality.  

According to Petros Tritsinis, Marketing & Business Development Manager at Lamda Hellix: “For any modern company, a data center is an absolute necessity everyone appreciates its value but no one really wants to manage”.  

This is where collocation comes in.  

Here are the most important reasons why all businesses need data center collocation and why your business should consider it.  

1. In-house data centers can be very expensive 

Μanaging an in-house data center can be very difficult. The cost is, of course, a significant factor in this direction. A modern data center needs the support of skilled personnel able to identify and commission the most advanced technologies to ensure continuity and safety. At the same time, a modern data center needs to be able to expand quickly, following the organization’s needs and growth rate.  

Do all the above seem difficult? Well, they are!  

Instead, moving to a collocation center can easily make issues like these a thing of the past. Modern data centers are leveraging economies of scale to offer collocation services with pricing stability, multiple layers of security (both physical and digital), highly skilled personnel, and a flexible modular infrastructure continuously upgrading to meet the latest technology and market requirements.  

2. Forget about downtime  

A benefit most businesses cannot achieve with in-house data centers is nearly 100% downtime. Lack of resources in money, people, know-how, and security issues can cause some serious drawback in this case. On the other hand, an advanced collocation data center with a fully fault-tolerant infrastructure, emergency backup generators, and redundant systems ensures customer applications will not go down even when the worst-case scenario becomes a reality. Redundancy also allows the data center administrators to keep things going during maintenance without having to take a single customer offline.  

3. Consider Scalability 

Talking about necessities for a modern data center, scalability is certainly among them. After all, data centers are costly resources that aim to support business objectives both in the short and also in the long term. They can become useless if they don’t meet this requirement.  

Collocation data centers, however, offer almost unlimited physical and technological scaling possibilities even for the most advanced businesses. Learn more about Lamda Hellix’s collocation services.  

4. Think Support & Troubleshooting 

Collocation data centers offer their customers complete support 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. At Lamda Hellix, our fully managed support services ensure our customers enjoy complete monitoring of their systems. This enables them to allocate IT stuff to more strategic roles within their company, instead of employing them to focus on supporting day-to-day operations.  

5. Legislation and compliance – Of course! 

In the rapidly changing digital environment, organizations are often finding it hard to comply with laws and regulations imposed by authorities. In most industries, standards have become considerably complicated and organizations strive to find cost-effective ways to meet them.  

Collocation data centers have evolved into a popular, compliant option for all organizations finding it expensive and technically difficult to adapt to regulations and industry standards.  

6. What about disaster recovery and security 

Doing business in the digital era requires high level of security, both digital and physical. This is a primary investment factor for collocation data centers like ours at Lamda Hellix. As this is not the right place to describe in detail what we have done on this side, we are happy to know that our customer’s infrastructure is 100% protected from intruders and attacks of all kinds.  

It goes without saying that even if unprecedented disasters strike the region, we are fully prepared to ensure that the operations in our data center will go on. If you want to find out more about Lamda Hellix’s collocation services, please do not hesitate to contact our team via this form.