
No matter the size of the business or vertical market, protecting data is imperative not only to success but to survival. According to Hewlett Packard, 70 percent of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within one year and 43 percent of companies that experience a catastrophic data loss never reopen. Many companies turn to collocation as part of their data protection plan thanks to the increased reliability and likely reduction in operating overhead. When determining where to collocate networking equipment, there are dozens of factors that need to be considered. After breaking these criteria into groups, five emerge: space, power, cooling, connectivity and services. The space portion of the decision making process is critical as it will largely influence many of the other factors to be considered.
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