Colocation services

Overview

What is Colocation?

Support your business initiatives with colocation and data centre services from BT.

Recent move towards hybrid and multi-cloud solutions means that the cloud is already an important enabler for enterprise IT delivery. Still, some organisations are hesitant to move their existing on-premises infrastructures, whether it be for security and/or compliance issues or due to workloads that don’t suit virtualised platforms.

Thankfully there is also a middle ground option - a hybrid cloud solution, including colocation – renting server space in a data centre. Our colocation solution gives you a highly secure, highly available data centre solution for your IT, across the globe.

With Colocation from BT, you’ll experience:

• world-class secure data centre solutions
• futureproofed capacity and growth within purpose-built facilities
• enhanced performance with no planned downtime and 100% availability
• BT “on-net”, improving network and platform connectivity and integration options
• easy access to our latest public, private and hybrid cloud offerings
• global reach and availability to keep your services local to your users in over 200 locations globally
• standardised designs
• additional services to provide an end-to-end solution.

Why choose colocation from BT?

Our colocation services are a valuable part of our wider cloud strategy to support your business growth. Our colocation solutions are:

• scalable – access a global ecosystem of tools and locations that will help your business grow and move services closer to your users. Service management available from your BT team as a part of our broader portfolio.
• cost-effective – eliminate CapEx intensive hardware and software and easily migrate software-defined services into our fabric.
• flexible - fast and efficient capacity provisioning with less planning requirement. A platform enabled approach for simplicity, visibility and control.
• secure – dedicated space and security are built into our service.
• connected – cloud-enabled connectivity, meaning high cloud interoperability, high data portability and low latency between public and private environments.

Our colocation services

With our colocation services, you can:

• modernise and scale your data centre capabilities – consolidating your network and IT environment into a single solution, delivered globally
• maximise cloud application performance – improve your end user experience by locating your workload wherever it benefits you
• work with our experts to design and plan your services onto a standard and globally consistent model
• minimise your operational and commercial risk – using our migration services and flexible commercial models to provide maximum business value.