D&E in the News
09-15-07 - Businesses Turning to Co-Location to Safeguard Infrastructure
Your Business Connections, Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce and Industry
If your in-house servers went down due to an electrical outage or were damaged as the result of a fire, how would your company continue to function? How long would it take you to get back online, and what would be the cost of that downtime in terms of e-commerce or critical business applications?
Keeping your infrastructure safe and operational can be a big undertaking, which is why many businesses opt for co-location instead of storing their servers in-house.
Co-location simply means physically housing hardware, software, and backups in a secure off-site environment.
To help businesses in our area safeguard their infrastructures, businesses, such as D&E Communications, offer convenient, co-location facilities. D&E Communications offers fully climate-controlled environments to maintain proper temperature and humidity levels, as well as comprehensive fire detection and suppression systems.
These co-location facilities also provide for 24/7 logged secure access so your authorized personnel can get to your servers whenever needed.
Besides the physical protections offered by co-location facilities, your business will also benefit from enhanced readability.
Pricing for co-location services is based on bandwidth and compartment space, and is far less costly than installing and maintaining a network at your own location.
You can also think of co-location as a huge insurance policy for pennies on the dollar compared with the potential cost of lost revenue. As your needs grow so can the scope of your co-location services.
Some larger businesses choose to house part of their infrastructure in-house and part in co-location facilities as a strategy in their disaster recovery plan. This duplication is done to ensure that essential communications functions would continue despite natural or manmade disasters.
For more information about the various co-location services contact D&E Communications at 1-877-4DE-TODAY