WHAT IS THE HOUSING SERVICE?

Housing is the best solution for companies who needs to supervise critical network application, that, managed autonomously, would require very expensive infrastructures.

But what is the difference between outsourcing and housing?
With outsourcing, the client entrusts the IT functions management to a provider, who uses its own resources. Instead, with the colocation service the customer rents a space in an external data center and transfers physically there his own machines, rather than keep them located in the company, by optimizing the IT costs. As we said before, through the colocation service company’s servers are hosted in data centers in racks, standard installation systems of hardware components, that enable to contain servers, routers and switches in a orderly manner. Besides, racks are easily accessible and have the maximum flexibility and, in case of updates or malfunctions, allow a totally secure maintenance.

Using housing, the business must not take care of the management and especially of the maintenance of hardware, software and infrastructural components, which are handled by the provider. It will be the vendor to deal with all the classical system aspects included in the colocation service in data center, and the possible issues related to connectivity or power supply are eliminated. This solution’s benefit is just about removing the need of own an internal data center, that would imply elevated costs and physical areas available for this purpose.

With the housing service, the company saves costs related to the infrastructure and its retention, but at the same time has the possibility of control and manage autonomously the space, by carrying out any required operation, both remotely and in the data center. The housing, indeed, enables the full control of the infrastructure, which belongs exclusively to the client and it’s not shared with other users, ensuring a better governance of dedicated resources and bandwidth.