What is Colocation?

Colocation is a service provided by a Data Centre owner where multiple customers locate network, server and storage systems and interconnect to a variety of telecommunications and other network service provider(s) with a minimum of cost and complexity but with the maximum of security, reliability and redundancy delivering maximum “system uptime”.

Increasingly, organisations are recognising the benefits of colocating their mission-critical equipment within a data centre. Colocation is becoming popular because of the time and cost savings a company can realise as result of using shared data centre infrastructure.

Additionally, customers reduce their traffic back-haul costs and free up their internal networks for other uses. Moreover, by outsourcing network traffic to a colocation service provider with greater bandwidth capacity, web site access speeds improve considerably.

Why Colocate with The Bunker ?
Because The Bunker provide the most secure internet Data Centres in Europe, outside the high risk London zones yet within easy reach of London. We own and manage our Data Centres which are carrier neutral. They are staffed 24/7/365 by highly skilled network, technical and security staff.

Key Benefits of Colocation for the business user are:

Risk Mitigation and Data Recovery
Housing your IT equipment in a secure off-site environment makes your business less vulnerable to physical loss or damage of critical business systems.

Greater levels of reliability
High quality data centre environments with redundant power and cooling systems and engineers on site 24 hours a day, add a new level of reliability to system availability.

Colocation reduces cost
Businesses are finding that locating their IT infrastructure within their offices incurs ongoing costs of office space, infrastructure and hidden utility and staff costs.

Colocation meets the demands of new technology
New server storage technology is demanding more and more power and air-conditioning to be able to operate, and the costs of refurbishing and upgrading an IT environment located in an inner city office space can be cost prohibitive.

Colocation improves Connectivity
A fibre link between Metro and Docklands facilities ensures access to an extensive range of additional cost-effective carrier connectivity.

New Business Opportunities
Colocation can create a wealth of new opportunities for organisations delivering applications over our resilient bandwidth options.