DCaaS (Data Center-as-a-Service) is an under-rated service offering that can have an immense impact on the future of colocation hosting. A data centre refers to both the building and the premises in which the central computing technology of one or more companies or organizations is housed, as well as the organization itself, which takes care of these computers/servers. It is therefore of central importance in the use of IT in companies, administrations or other institutions.
Data centres are a basic prerequisite for digitization and have a major influence on economic development. They are considered indispensable to meet the growing demand for digital applications.
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Outsourcing data centres is a common and successfully implemented option. There are various advantages of data centre outsourcing, such as gain of time for core business activities, access to modern tools and technologies, improved flexibility, client-centric solutions such as infrastructure for cloud computing, big data real-time lookup, etc. Legal and other regulatory compliances are generally get decreased.
Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS) is also known as Rack Colocation service. DCaaS essentially allows the client to outsource their need of building, power, cooling, rack space and also internet connectivity to the provider. In this case, the access by the client is done via a wide area network (WAN). The data centre as a service (DCaaS) is a utility computing service. Utility computing refers to techniques and business models with which a service provider provides IT services to its customers and bills them according to consumption. Examples of such services are computing power, storage capacity and applications. A company’s data centre can also be considered as a service provider; in this case, its divisions would be the customers.
It is Flexible Like Any Cloud Computing Service
While many of the companies have already shifted their resources and business operations to the public cloud, many organizations still are concerned about the security of the public cloud. A hybrid cloud implementation by using a colocation service often can be proved as a secure, good alternative that offers the characters of cloud computing such as scalability and cost-effectiveness.
It is Cost-Effective Than the Other Options
No doubt DCaaS can not beat public cloud at the raw pricing point but it is obvious to any IT manager that public cloud pushes some swap space. When we need performance and hardware scalability, we need physical machines. Building your own data centre is too much a costly option. A DCaaS service provider charges for the capacity. This in turn increases the visibility. So the customers can identify the periods when they need certain resources such as more cooling, more bandwidth and so on. The data centre in reality can not be scaled but the other resources required by the servers can be adjusted.
Low Downtime
Downtime is one of the deciding factors for certain businesses which deliver services to their customers throughout the day, all over the earth. Unplanned downtime may result in serious loss. DCaaS providers can provide a warranty about downtime. Often the service providers offer backups on the private cloud to deliver a consistent uptime.
Multiple Ways of Scalability
A DCaaS colocation can help an organization to build their cloud infrastructure design for their specific needs for either horizontal scaling or vertical scaling. As because the DCaaS service providers often have a private cloud and enterprise-grade public cloud, there are helpful resources in an event of an unexpected rise in resource consumption. Often the manpower can be outsourced to handle an emergency.
A single provider API
Now, a data centre in a DCaaS can be handled by the provider’s API and can be integrated with the common private cloud software. It is possible to make the data centre almost unmanned.
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Stability of Weather and Power
A data centre depends on too many physical resources which makes only a few sites on this earth suitable to operate a data centre without disturbance throughout the year. With the advent of global warming, certain locations have been unreliable because of devastating storms. Not all the places are located closer to a power generation centre to respond in a scalable manner. These factors make only a few places suitable for operating a data centre. But, not all businesses can afford the required manpower to keep the connection of the site with the main business. DCaaS simplifies these challenges since there is nothing invested for a longer period.
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