Cloud’s earliest adopters were told - and sold - the benefits of shifting most of their workloads into a single cloud platform. But it is fair to say many enterprises now would be wary or uncomfortable with that degree of lock-in, not least because of the difficulties involved in moving everything in.

Deploying a multi-site Direct Connection solution traditionally involves multiple parties across the data centre, network and infrastructure. By leveraging flexible colocation offerings in Sydney and in Melbourne, combined with diverse inter-data centre network connectivity options, you can reap a range of benefits.

Cloud isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition – there are many options to consider such as whether to run core applications in-house, with a colocation provider, with a server host, or fully in the cloud. Finding the right combination of models depends on the unique characteristics of the business, as well as on your short-term and long-term growth goals.

Cages physically separate a company’s servers from others in the data centre, and allow companies to add other equipment, such as a desk to support onsite workers. Yet cages aren’t for everybody: despite their strength, data cages take up large amounts of precious data centre real estate.

You already know colocation is a great way to save yourself the headaches of providing top-tier communications, cooling, power conditioning and the other things that a modern data centre needs. But what do you do when you need to reroute a network cable, physically restart a server or hot-swap a failed hard drive?

When you’re talking about relocating the core of your business, however, you need more to go on than just a hunch. Thankfully, it’s not hard to build a solid business case by considering a range of costs that colocation affects.

Sometimes it seems to take an incident – and therefore a need to try and restore from backup – for businesses to take backup seriously. You can bet those caught out trying to recover from ransomware this time won’t be caught out twice. Here are the six things I’ve learned about being comfortable with your backup quality.

When people take colo space in one of our data centres, they may want us to run most of their IT equipment, or just a subset. For example, they might shift their entire Office 365 or a single Oracle database to run offsite from our environment. But no matter where the workload is, the data in it needs to be protected in a verifiable and legally-compliant manner.