Rackspace introduces data center colocation services
The effort around data center reduction has been to draw down everything, from hardware to facilities. Rackspace has an interesting new twist, though: Put your hardware in our data centers.
The company announced a new data center colocation business this week, offering space, power, and network connectivity to customers who provide their own hardware. The facilities are in 10 locations around the world.
It’s not a bad idea. The servers are the cheapest expense compared to facility costs, such as the physical building, power, and cooling.
'Lift and shift' to the cloud
The new business, dubbed Rackspace Colocation, is positioned as a way for enterprises to kick off their cloud journey by getting out of their self-managed data center to lower their expenses as they move to the cloud.