Co-location means that you rent specific space to operate your servers, along with the servers of other companies, in a common physical location. Each company's equipment is physically secured inside a lockable wire cage or cabinet. Co-location offers you the flexibility to upgrade and grow your technology requirements as your business grows -without having to make additional capital investments. When you enter into a co-location agreement with Herakles, you significantly reduce your IT Cost-of Ownership and are assured a much higher level of service, without all the management headaches.
Benefits of Co-location
Benefits of Co-location Include:
- Cost savings in the range of 20%-35% (Gartner)
- Very high availability of IT systems – 99.999%
- Business Continuity for your IT systems in the event of a disaster
- Company records and data are safe and protected
- Flexibility to quickly/easily expand IT needs without significant capital outlay
- Freedom to focus on your core competencies rather than your IT infrastructure
- Can be designed to meet the “Green” energy standards
Physical Advantages: Herakles provides you:
- Precision-controlled, managed, redundant environmental systems
- 24x7 power back up systems for all your equipment – no downtime or disruption due to utility power
failures or black-out periods - State-of-the-art dry-pipe, pre-action fire suppression – no losses due to fire
- High-level physical security with onsite security officers, surveillance cameras, pin pad and bio-metric systems
to prevent unauthorized entry - Flexibility of adding new systems when required and at a nominal cost
Additional specific advantages you can expect with co-location
Connectivity Advantages
Using T1 or DS3 lines to connect your networks across long distances is expensive, both to acquire and maintain and not as reliable as the fiber optic connections at a data center. Co-location gives you increased connectivity and greater redundancy without the prohibitive cost.
Greater Network Redundancy means Maximum up-time
Your business critical applications will always be up and accessible. We offer eleven network carriers whose fiber optic lines terminate at our data center. We also support wireless networks.
BGP4 Routing
If one provider's connection fails, BGP4 allows instant failover and re-routes your critical data over a different path with an alternate provider. Downtime is non-existent.
Disaster Recovery
We also provide disaster recovery services. In the event of downtime with your primary IT system, the entire network switches to a duplicate system at Herakles. Outsourced disaster recovery costs a fraction of what it would to set it up in-house.
Regulatory Compliance
Having your IT systems and data located or replicated in a data center will help your company achieve compliance with Sarbanes, Oxley, HIPAA, FED Banking Regulations, SAS 70, etc.
Technical Support Advantages
With Herakles, you can expect the highest levels of dedicated service from our certified engineers and technicians on a 24X7, everyday basis.
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
A strict SLA ensures that you get a guaranteed level of services. Herakles guarantees 99.999% facility and 99.95% network up-time.
Experience Advantage
You get the advantage of our years of experience in managing data centers and qualified technical personnel working to keep your business critical systems functioning smoothly around the clock.
