colocation
Noun
Meaning
colocation (countable and uncountable, plural colocations)
Alternative spelling of collocation.
colocation (countable and uncountable, plural colocations)
Alternative spelling of co-location.
Synonyms
Examples
“A number of colocation companies have praised the modular approach to data centers to better match customer demand with physical build outs, and allow customers to buy a data center as a service, paying only for what they consume.”
A colocation provides the building, cooling, power, bandwidth and physical security while the customer provides servers and storage.
Additionally, colocation helps resolve one of the biggest challenges associated with hybrid cloud: moving data between and public clouds over a low-bandwidth WAN.
For their part, companies that specialize in OpenStack as a service also rely heavily on colocation facilities.
Generators do not start instantaneously, so colocation facilities usually have battery backup systems.
Because of the high concentration of servers inside larger colocation centres, most carriers will be interested in bringing direct connections to such buildings.