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Colocation Buyers Guide - EuropeWhat You Should Know Before Making a Colocation Decision
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Table of Contents
1. . . Does This Sound Like You?
2. . . What Is Colocation
3. . . Europe
4. . . What should you look for
5. . . One size doesn’t always work for all
6. . . Expected ROI
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Executive summary
The growth of the digital economy means
Information Technology (IT) is now at the heart of
business. IT has become a business enabler,
fostering the agility and flexibility required for an
organisation to drive innovation and expansion.
For this reason, the infrastructure that supports
IT has become increasingly vital. To achieve the
highly secure and resilient colocation
environments that are necessary to meet these
modern business requirements, many
organisations are outsourcing all or part of their
technical, web and IT infrastructure to expert
third-party data centre providers.
When choosing a colocation partner in
Europe, it is important to find a company
you can trust that offers a secure and
reliable environment for your business-
critical infrastructure. They must be able to
provide a network located in primary
positions for connectivity and power, as well
as expansion plans to meets your on-going
business growth requirements. In addition
they must have stability to support this
type of growth.
Does This Sound
Like You?
Looking for a colocation partner in Europe,
and a due diligence checklist to assess if the
partner meets current as well as future
needs. This whitepaper explores the criteria
that organisations should evaluate. It is
targeted at CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors and
any other person looking for information on
the topic.
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What is
Colocation ?Co-location, where companies hire data centre space
from a service provider, is a popular trend, with co-
location companies and big data centres being setting
up across the globe to provide IT as a fourth utility. The
growing question now is why would enterprises invest in
their own IT equipment when they can just tap into co-
location data centres and get a provisioned service for a
much lower cost. Co-location makes managing the data
far simpler for companies, as they do not need to spend
their IT budget on maintaining the data centre and
hiring staff to look after it.
Business benefits of co-location
The business benefit is the cost, both on the capital
investment side and the operating expenditure side because
enterprises do not have to invest in the equipment
themselves; they are paying on a usage basis. On the OPEX
side enterprises don’t have to have teams permanently
employed to manage the data centre.“The best way to think about it is businesses like
Amazon, where they get huge amounts of
demand at certain times of the year like
Christmas and then they need to flex up in a
huge way, but they don’t want to have this
capacity all year round so if you outsource or
lease it then obviously you can take more
bandwidth at critical times of the year when your
customers are going to require more capacity,”
Improve Reliability & Availability
Improve Efficiency & Performance
Reduce and Eliminate Costs
Scalable
Reduce Risk
Meet Compliance Needs
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EUROPE
KNOWS YOUR
CULTURE
AND SPEAKS
YOUR LANGUAGE
Companies should look for colocation
partners that can demonstrate expansion
plans in the key European hubs, providing
the assurance that their growth plans can
be accommodated into the future with
premium data centre capacity.
With 28 Member States and a population of nearly 500million Europeans (compared to 300 million Americans),the European Union (EU) spans a large part of theEuropean continent. The sheer size of this potential clientbase therefore offers a unique opportunity for developingnew markets.
The EU has established a single market across theterritory of all its members. 17 member states have alsojoined a monetary union known as the euro zone, whichuses the Euro as a single currency. In 2012 the EU had acombined GDP of 16.073 trillions international dollars, a20% share of the global gross domestic product (in termsof purchasing power parity). According to Credit SuisseGlobal Wealth Report 2012 (September), the EU owns thelargest net wealth in the world; it is estimated to equal30% of the $223 trillion global wealth.
It is committed to promoting economic prosperity andcreating jobs, by offering an environment that favourscompetitiveness between companies resulting in betterskilled workers and attractive prices to consumers.
In addition to being a growing political entity, the EU isfirst and foremost a free trade area, meaning that itsmembers have agreed to eliminate tariffs, quotas andpreferences on all the goods and services traded betweenthem. As a result, trade between EU member Statesrepresents two thirds of all EU trade, with varying levelsbetween countries.
All over the EU, more and more firms and households areconnected to the internet, and more business is beingdone online — which both reduces costs and boostsefficiency. By 2011, 71% of households and mostbusinesses in the EU had access to the web. Additionally33% of EU businesses were buying and 21% were sellingonline — the market is clearly far from saturated.
Network independent data centre
capacity in the city centres of Europe’s
financial and digital hubs is the most
effective choice for enterprises looking
for a resilient, highly-connected
infrastructure to supports today’s
bandwidth-heavy digital economy.
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What should you look
for in a European
colocation provider?
Connectivity
Flexibility
Energy efficiency
Security
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ConnectivityThe data centre should act as thriving, connected, digital
ecosystem with direct access to international and local
fixed line, broadband and mobile networks, internet
exchange points, content distribution networks, trading
platforms and cloud hubs. These hubs will facilitate the
secure storage, sharing, and distribution of mission
critical applications, data, content and media.
FlexibilityFlexibility from your colocation partner is vital. From
choosing your location in the data centre to selecting the
power, services and support levels you require, the
solution must meet the business’ evolving needs.
Energy efficiencyThe rising cost of power and the growing focus on
corporate carbon emissions from the EU and national
governments is putting increasing pressure on
organisations to demonstrate energy efficiency. This has
caused energy efficiency to become one of the key
outsourcing considerations, and it is now a differentiator
when organisations are choosing a third party data
centre supplier.
SecurityIn today’s global economy, cybercrime is becoming a
real threat to commercial security, with many attacks
perpetrated by organised criminals who have the
resources to pay for high levels of hacking expertise.
Indeed, a recent study estimated the global cost of
cybercrime for businesses at $114 billion annually.
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64% of
Organizations
Engage in Some
Form of Data Center
Colocation Services
*Source: Focus Research Group Colocation Services Buyers Guide
According to Info-Tech Research Group, 64% of
organizations engage in some form of datacenter
colocation services. In addition, Gartner has
observed more and more enterprises enlisting
colocation services, and the research firm has
identified several reasons behind this trend.*
Because organizations are moregeographically distributed, theydon’t necessarily have an optimalcentral location in which to locatea datacenter and Web systems.
1
Traditional office buildings don’t always meetthe cooling, power and weight requirements tohouse dense and heavy hardware, andretrofitting them is too expensive. Also, thesebuildings rarely allow for the lockdown securitymeasures that companies want for their serverrooms.
2
Colocation gives companies that areconsolidating or outgrowing their internaldatacenters a cost effective alternative tobuilding new facilities.
3
And, finally, remote ―lights-out‖management technology makesadministering remote systemseasier, allowing IT staffers toeven reboot servers remotely.
4
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Five 9’s?
Three 9’s?
What’s the
Difference?
Availability is usually
expressed as a percentage
of uptime in a given year.
Many providers will state
their availability as
percentage such as 99.999
or 99.9. The difference?
Two fewer nines means an
average of 86 seconds
more downtime every day,
or 43 minutes more
downtime every month.
One Solution
Doesn’t Always
Work For All
Outsourcing the responsibilities of your IT
Infrastructure with colocation can provide the
traditional benefits of lowering costs and re-directing
resources; however, like many organizations, you
may be asking, ―Is it a fit for me?― To make an
informed decision, TALK TO US
Choosing a colocation provider is a strategic businessdecision that evolves from thoughtful consideration. It isimportant to know what to look for and the rightquestions to ask.
Colo
cation –
Not
A R
ocket
Scie
nce
55% of organizations that established a shopping
list of services aligned with their business needs
were more likely to experience colocation success.
64% of organizations engaged in a colocation
agreement have a dedicated vendor resource
responsible for managing their services.
*Source: Info-Tech
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Expected ROIColocation due diligence
check-list
Consultative, customer-centric approach
Experienced people
Focus on customer service and delivery
Premium standards and engineering excellence
Capacity for growth & ongoing investment
Choice of connectivity
Pan-European presence in key cities
Connectivity and support services
Value for money
Environmental leadership
Financial stability
More than 200 CEOs, business owners and IT
decision makers were surveyed on their
expected ROI timeline for a colocation solution.
Read on to find out when they believe colocation
will pay off for their business.
of CEOs, Business owners and IT decision makers expect to see a return on investment from their colocation solution
70%
Within twelve months
40%expected a return within six months
24%
Within two years
29%
Who we are
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and Virtual Datacenters. Fulcolo.net’s customer approach leads to innovative solutions that offer
unprecedented visibility and control, helping customers make better decisions about risk, agility and
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