There are pros and cons to everything, and colocation is no exception. Though it may be a relatively new concept to the data center world, it definitely wasn’t born yesterday. Other industries have been building their business models around the idea of colocation for quite some time.
Sustained demand fueling positive outlook for data center investment market contributing factors include expansion in cloud companies and widespread reliance on data centers.
The use of colocation data centers by business and industry to store, manage, and exchange data has grown tremendously over the past decade and is likely to continue due to the convenience and economic advantages such facilities provide.
The colocation industry started in the late 1980s and early 1990s when corporations were looking to outsource the facility side of the earliest data centers.