Colocation in central London
IT is a fundamental requirement. An enabler that allows you to work efficiently and communicate effectively. You are reliant on that IT infrastructure to keep your business functioning effectively, and it quickly becomes a ‘mission critical’ part of the company. So if systems fail, it’s no longer just an inconvenience, it can be catastrophic.
But it’s no secret that providing a secure, reliable, connected environment for dedicated server and telecoms equipment is difficult and expensive, and it’s rarely a core function. As your business grows, computing requirements will only ever expand, and the number of servers you need increases - as does the amount of power required to run them, the amount of space to store them, and the amount of cooling needed to keep them fully operational.
Added to this, the cost of maintaining them, and the associated staff cost, also increases - and then the real problem comes when your systems start to fail simply because they have outgrown their environment. All of which is why many businesses opt to work with an outsourced colocation data centre instead – gaining access to specialist colocation facilities which deliver reliability of services, connectivity and security, as well as long-term cost predictability.
City Lifeline is just such a facility. We’re a Tier 3, carrier-neutral data centre that is located near Moorgate in London, on all the main fibre-optic rings. This makes us one of the best connected colocation data centres in Central London, and London is by far the most connected city in Europe. We’re also carrier neutral, which means we have many carriers and Internet providers present, making it easy for you to interconnect with them.
Reasons to consider the City Lifeline colocation data centre
- Connectivity - As a carrier neutral data centre, we have many carriers and Internet connection options, and makes it easy for you to interconnect with them, and to choose the right one for you.
- Flexibility - Using a colocation data centre gives you the flexibility to expand or contract your facilities at will, with costs only being incurred for those which are being used at any given time.
- Reliability - Ensuring reliability of services is at the heart of any decision to use an outsourced data centre. Our colocation facilities provide a reliable place for your server or telecoms hosting.
- Resilience - Disasters happen. As a colocation data centre we are organised to be able to cope with unexpected situations, and to protect the operation of our hosted equipment.
- Security - Your equipment is valuable and high cost, but the cost of downtime as a result of theft or malicious attack is even higher. As a colocation data centre, City Lifeline protects you from such threats.
- Carbon footprint - We have a lower carbon footprint per rack than any in-house data centre, as we continuously replace old equipment with new, to drive down costs and carbon emissions.
- Cost management - An in-house data centre consumes up-front cash with the benefit being realised over a long time, but an outsourced colocation data centre c means no equity or debt load and no nasty operational cash surprises.
