What is Colocation?

Colocation, often referred to as “Colo,” provides a shared, secure data center environment for your network. Colo needs will continue to grow as businesses migrate different parts of their operations to the cloud.

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When selecting the perfect colocation for your business, it’s vital to consider key operational factors like security, uptime, cost, efficiency, and compliance. The choice of provider significantly influences daily operations.

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Why Choose Packet Fusion for Colocation Assistance

As your trusted cloud advisor, Packet Fusion is here to help you identify and achieve better performance in the cloud. We have assisted over 650 companies in finding a solution that fits their needs quickly and efficiently.

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How We Help You Choose a Colocation Provider

1. Define Requirements

We document your rack and power needs, connectivity, compliance requirements, preferred locations and growth plans.

2. Compare Facilities

We compare data center providers such as Equinix, CoreSite and Flexential on security, uptime, cost, efficiency and compliance.

3. Negotiate and Migrate

We negotiate contract terms and help plan your move into the new facility.

4. Optimize

We review capacity, connectivity and costs over time and help you connect colocation with your cloud strategy.

This process follows Packet Fusion’s 4-step advising model: Evaluate, Implement, Optimize and Transform.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is colocation?

Colocation means renting space, power, cooling and connectivity in a third-party data center for servers and network equipment that you own and manage. The provider secures and maintains the facility.

What is the difference between colocation and public cloud?

With colocation you own and manage your hardware in a provider’s facility. With public cloud, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, you rent computing resources and the provider owns the hardware. Many organizations use both.

What should we look for in a colocation provider?

Key factors include physical security, uptime track record, power and cooling capacity, carrier and cloud connectivity, compliance certifications, location and cost.

Which colocation providers does Packet Fusion work with?

We work with leading data center providers, including Equinix, CoreSite and Flexential, along with other national and regional facilities.

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Moving parts of our operations to the cloud was a significant step for us, particularly given our limited familiarity with technical fields. Your team’s involvement went above and beyond our expectations. Throughout the entire process, Packet Fusion demonstrated an unwavering commitment to monitor each step meticulously. Your proactive stance in identifying potential challenges and preemptively addressing them was instrumental in averting potential issues before they could escalate. The thoroughness and precision with which Packet Fusion approached the migration were evident from the outset. Your team’s ability to foresee potential roadblocks and promptly make necessary corrections was nothing short of remarkable. As a result, the transition was remarkably smooth, causing minimal disruption to our operations.

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Experience was great…Packet Fusion always provides excellent service and knowledge around nearly any IT solution.

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The responsiveness of the Packet Fusion support teams and having local staff for on-site support is great.

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We moved all of our telephony support services over to Packet Fusion from various vendors mainly because of the wonderful service we received from your original support offering to us (ShoreTel).

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