Thinking about renting space in a co-location facility?
I suggest you visit any site you’re considering with the usual due-diligence checklist that addresses matters of security, compliance, environmental risks, power redundancy, and networking capabilities.
This checklist will get you only so far, however. You’ll need to keep a couple of other co-location considerations front-of-mind, too
The right services provider can ease the burdens of sustaining your network performance. But take care in choosing one. You can start by asking and answering whether the services provider you’re considering can…
1 Scale in tandem with your business?
Meeting both your current and (often unexpected) future needs requires a services provider that’s been successful at combining breadth and depth of capabilities — cloud as well as managed services; data centers, co-location, and network operations centers; vendor-neutral needs assessments; and diverse professional services.
To achieve the network performance your business needs now and going forward, consider implementing these nine best practices:
1 Plan for continued bandwidth growth
The embrace of 5G mobility, the internet of things (IoT), video conferencing, collaboration tools, etc., means network bandwidth demand will keep growing. You’ll need to anticipate and budget accordingly.
In my last post, I described four challenges to network performance that your enterprise needs to overcome network complexity, achieve network visibility, and stay competitive — growth in data traffic and data speed, the arrival of 5G, intensifying network complexity, and heightened risk of security breaches.
So let’s look at some the key technologies that address these challenges, often by working in concert:
The ways we use and communicate information are changing so fast that it can be tough to keep your enterprise network at the performance levels the business needs to stay competitive . So I’m going to warn you about four challenges to network performance you cannot afford to ignore:
1 Growth in data traffic – and data speed
Annual global IP traffic is increasing by 24% per year . Yearly data traffic will hit 3.3 zettabytes – that is, 3.3 trillion gigabytes – by 2021, up from “just” 1.2 zettabytes in 2016.
Meanwhile, broadband speeds will nearly double by 2021 , reaching 53.0 Mbps, up from 27.5 Mbps in 2016.
2 Arrival of 5G
Game-changing fifth-generation (5G) Wi-Fi is nearly upon us with such capabilities as…
In my last post, I listed five ways that managed/hosted services providers can help power the IT-driven competitive advantage organizations need. Here’s what those providers must deliver in order to…
1 Flexibly choose and integrate customized IT solutions
