Why Outsource Your Infrastructure to a Data Center?
One constant struggle businesses face is finding ways to keep costs down. The best way to do this is to focus limited resources towards the core values that drive the company forward and increase profits. Identifying and reducing unnecessary costs can help greatly increase the budgets for parts of the company that drive sales and innovation.
One area that consumes a good portion of a company’s IT budget is the operation of servers in a data center. Instead of spending time working on innovative ideas and revenue generating strategies, IT workers are often bogged down maintaining a company’s data center infrastructure. In addition, organizations must budget appropriately for the expansion of a data center for potential company growth.
In most cases, data centers do little to promote the company’s products or services. Outsourcing your infrastructure to a data center can save your company time and money my eliminating the need to maintain and operate your own data center.
Benefits of outsourcing to a Data Center
Mid -sized businesses struggle with constant challenges such as rapid expansion, new locations and constant changes in technology requirements. Adherence to any number of compliance regulations and industry standards is necessary for doing business in this global market.
One of the biggest cost saving benefits of outsourcing your data center is avoiding the need for compliance with government regulations. While these certifications and compliance requirements will benefit your business greatly, having to achieve compliance with them can be costly. The average cost of a data breach is between $6M-8M, which is enough to put a company out of business and damage their reputation.
Compliant data hosting companies take on this cost and spread it out across all of their clients, saving you money almost immediately. On a related note, security is also a big cost involved with the operation of data centers. Both physical and virtual security are a necessity.
Securing data and maintaining regulatory compliance is extremely complex with organizations facing data breaches, privacy related standards and network hacks. Many CIOs and Directors of IT do not have the expertise or time to tackle and deal with the mass amount of government and industry regulations. Data centers take security very seriously and implement it very well. You can rest assured that your data is secure and managed with professionalism.
These are some of the many reasons that companies choose to outsource their infrastructure to a secure, reliable data center to protect mission critical or business essential applications. Managed hosting providers offer advantages that might not be present in on site data hosting. They often have superb network quality and multiple locations. They should also offer tools that give you the ability to monitor your servers. Another advantage of hiring one of these companies is that you will have a great amount of potential to grow your data network. Coupled with the expertise of the company you hire these factors make obvious that managed hosting providers are ideal for any data hosting needs.
Often businesses put cost saving strategies on the back burner. Finding the right hosting provider can be time consuming. In addition, when it comes to purchasing a service, resources are costly to provide professional competitive analysis, vendor research and budget-solution analysis when it comes to making a decision. Integrative Consulting Group (ICG) helps companies focus on their core business by optimizing vendor and partner relationships and doing a lot of the leg work for you. Pat Jimenez, Founder of Integrative Consulting Group spent a decade in the data center business and is an alliance partner with world class data centers, such as Peak 10. She will align to the most experienced technical resources, set up the data center tours and work with you in making the best decision customized to an organizations specific needs and budget.