What is Decentralised Colocation ?
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facilities are pivotal to the success of UK edge deployments .”
Strategically positioned regional colocation As enterprise adoption of cloud-based software solutions delivered as a service grows , Hall explains that “ users , customers and modern software demand and expect increasingly fast response times .” Basically , the more elements of the digital economy rely on low-latency , high throughput infrastructure , the more mission critical it becomes . This is especially true at the cutting edge , Hall adds , where “ ultra-low latency is also seen as essential in delivering future 5G and IoT enabled technologies and applications - from driverless vehicles to remote surgery and automated factories .” Speed and low latency – along with reducing data backhaul costs – are , therefore , the core capabilities driving the evolution of the colocation industry . Unfortunately , Hall explains , “ a centralised colocation or cloud model cannot achieve this , even in a relatively small country the size of the UK , due to distance-related latency .”
He elaborates : “ For example , as the quality of broadband increases , with many households and small businesses connecting fibre to the premises and
What is Decentralised Colocation ?
Decentralised colocation refers to an emerging trend in which enterprise servers , as well as private and hybrid clouds , are located or hosted in third party data centres spread across multiple locations rather than just one central point . reaching speeds of up to 1 Gigabit , the congestion or choke point has moved to the hyperscale data centre . This means thinking regionally , moving data closer to users to minimise latency .”
While the difference between what Hall describes as a regional decentralised colocation data centre and your average run of the mill colo site initially might seem like a matter of careful and clever branding rather than any substantive distinction , Hall is adamant that they ’ re not one and the same .
46 December 2021