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Colocation in itself is not sufficient for a complete digital transformation. The entire functionality is now dependent on a host of services. Business owners may have difficulty accessing data due to security breaches, disasters, or decentralised networks that disrupt business continuity. A multitude of supplementary activities, therefore, need to be taken that ensure your hybrid model of work has uncontested data availability.

With geographically distributed teams, it puts an added onus on the technologies to ensure virtual collaboration, asynchronous communication, and result-based tracking. In these scenarios, Colocation Data Centers play a critical role in handling Cloud storage, virtual meetings, VOIP traffic, and web-based applications.

Here are some of the crucial services to ask from your Colocation Data Center provider:

It is not a revelation that effective business continuity is dependent on creating ample redundancies within the Data Center ecosystem. Where IT teams are already overextended in the pandemic age, managing dispersed endpoints and increasingly complex cyber threats, BaaS protects the organisations information by replicating the entire contents on an offsite location. This makes an organisation less susceptible to evolving threats and frees up resources for revenue-generating operations.

In essence, organisations should look for:

When there are bundles of assets and information to protect, an organisation needs to develop a varied set of capabilities to keep up with DDoS and data loss threats in todays time. SECaaS consolidates them all to provide network security, vulnerability scanning, identity and access management, encryption, intrusion prevention, continuous monitoring and security assessments. It is outsourcing the security of your company within a Cloud architecture. This ensures that you dont have to increase your costs while scaling your business in a hybrid model.

Essentially, organisations must look for:

Data loss is accelerating at an unprecedented pace due to both natural and man-made disasters. In the face of this uncertainty and its relative impact on a hybrid style of working, it is absolutely important to document and deploy a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution that provides failover for your Cloud computing environment. DRaaS is an effective option that can help you save recurring costs, ensure a faster recovery time, build in-house controls, and get cohesive data security.

Organisations should look for:

STaaS works as Cloud storage rented from a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) for data repositories, multimedia storage, backup, and DR. It is designed to handle heavy workloads without disrupting the ongoing business operations. A key benefit here is the offloading of any cost or effort involved in managing a full-fledged infrastructure and technology while giving you the bandwidth to scale up resources on demand. You can respond to market conditions faster and spin up new applications which turn out to be service differentiators in the evolving digital landscape.

Organisations should look for:

Round-the-clock monitoring and issue resolution are the two indispensable aspects required to keep an organisations remote environment functional. This includes software patching, reporting, and performance tuning on a need-to-implement basis. In totality, a third party vendor within a Colocation Data Center can cover your applications, middleware, web hosting, data management and other critical missions within the ecosystem that allow you to access technology and scalability without breaking the budget.

To ensure 247 availability, organisations should look for:

A unified policy around the Clouds is crucial to optimise application experience and automate Cloud-agnostic connectivity. Hence, a Cloud networking solution should deliver extensive integrations, flexibility, scalability and security while promising a consistent Colocation environment that consolidates all enterprise functions. The ideal way to ensure seamless remote communication is to go for a low-latency route optimisation engine with maximum network performance.

Organisations should look for:

To sum up

The pandemic has given rise to this new trend of working from home and office simultaneously, thus calling for a better infrastructure to support the trend. As this model is taken up by most companies, a hybrid data center architecture is needed as well, particularly for colocation providers. It is only this way that they can adjust to the changing dynamics of digital India.

(The author Mr.Nikhil Rathi, Founder & CEO, Web Werks and the views expressed in this article are his own)

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Significance of colocation in hybrid working - CXOToday.com