1. RECALL’S GUIDE TO COLOCATION SERVICES 1
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RECALL’S
GUIDE TO
COLOCATION
SERVICES
COLOCATION: A popular option for companies
with midsize IT needs.

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CONTENT
Opportunities.......................................................................................
What is Colocation..............................................................................
Why Now.............................................................................................
Benefits of Colocation Include.............................................................
Data Center Services..........................................................................
Facility Specifications..........................................................................
What’s Included...................................................................................
Economies of Scale.............................................................................
Profiles of Colocation Customers........................................................
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“A COLO FACILITY
WHERE MANY
CARRIERS ARE
PHYSICALLY
PRESENT IS
OFTEN CALLED A
‘CARRIER HOTEL’”

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DISASTER
RECOVERY
Do you need a
Disaster Recovery or
Business Recovery
option for your
organization?
Opportunities:
As companies grow and begin to shift from individual servers to networked systems, they
are realizing that the original benefit of running their own server room is being outweighed
by the advantages of a colocation solution provider. Recall’s Colocation services help
your business connect globally, quickly and securely with resilient internet connections,
redundant & monitored network solutions, and large customer bandwidth availability.
Also, Recall Colocation services are located in major metropolitan areas providing the
advantages of attractive power capabilities, city services, transportation and infrastructure
to support your organization’s requirements. Recall’s footprint of 30+ information centers
provide our customers with a network of world-class offsite options.
Recall’s Colocation services assist our customers with the ability to focus their IT team
on maximizing the potential of their core business and realizing reductions in operational
expenditures. Recall’s Colocation team is available 24/7/365 to monitor your systems,
apply smart and remote hands to re-boot devices, ReSwap backup media, and provide
oversight when servers and equipment fail. Recall Colocation services specializes in data
center and network services allowing you the freedom to invest capital elsewhere. Today,
Recall Colocation services provides your organization with a fully auditable process, giving
you complete visibility and control of your infrastructure. As a part of our standard, Recall
Colocation provides customers with a variety of customer enclosures, cages, or square
foot layouts. Customers expect high levels of security and accredited industry compliance.
Recall meets your expectations with industry standard certifications including PCI-DSS,
ISO 27001, SOC & HIPAA. Additionally, Recall Colocation services continually applies new
industry leading procedures and services to facilitate our customers future innovation.
OPPORTUNITIES

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100,000
Significant benefits of
scale result in large
colocation facilities,
50,000 to 100,000
square feet
What is colocation:
Colocation refers to the practice of housing your servers and devices in a professional
data center in order to access economies of scale, advanced infrastructure, greater
bandwidth, lower latency, specialist services and systems, constant security and a whole
host of additional advantages. Greater resilience to disaster and to malicious attack, huge
savings available in cost and time and the sheer convenience of an environment in which
every conceivable service is immediately on hand — it all adds up to a logical argument for
colocation services as the best strategy for many businesses.
Why now?
Colocation services have become a popular option for companies with midsize IT
needs—especially those in Internet related businesses. It allows companies to focus IT
staff on core responsibilities, instead of the logistical support needs which underlie the
work. Significant benefits of scale (large power and mechanical systems) result in large
colocation facilities, typically 4500 to 9500 square metres (roughly 50,000 to 100,000
square feet).
Benefits of colocation include:
• A predictable and operational expenditure model
• Additional capacity can be brought on quickly, cheaply, and only as needed
• Better access to space and power
• Experienced professionals managing your data center facility
• An ecosystem of partners in the same facility
• Dedicated infrastructure to build your cloud strategy
• Lean infrastructure to manage during times of rapid business change
• A better road map for disaster recovery
COLOCATION

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Facility Specifications:
• 40,000 sq ft flexible use facility
• Backup generators
• 24/7/365 Recall security
• N+1 Mechanical
• Integrated staging rooms
• Multiple utility feeds
• Redundant air handlers
• Flexible data room and rack layout
& high density ready
• Full, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, or per U
• Carrier neutral
• Digital cameras & monitoring
• Dual authentication access control
• Cloud neutral
• 24 inch raised flooring
• Multiple fiber entrance
• Biometrics security
• Secure loading docks
• Overhead cable distribution
• Lobby, break & conference areas
Data Center Services:
• Migration & Installation services
• Smart Hands
• IT equipment asset tracking
• Offsite Data Protection
• Tape vaulting
• Cloud backup
• Custom Networks Services
• Internet
• Fiber
SQ FT FLEXIBLE USE FACILITY
40,000
Colocation services allow
IT staff to focus on core
responsibilities.

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What’s included:
• Lockable rack cabinets or cages
• Power in a variety of formats, AC and DC
• Network connectivity—either in a ‘house blend’,
where the colo provider is a customer of carriers, and
connects their clients to their own router for access to
multiple carriers, or as direct ‘cross-connect’ access to
the routers of the carriers themselves, or both, cooling
• Physical security (including video surveillance,
biometric and badge access, logging, and the like), and
• Real-time live monitoring of all these functions for
failures
They also provide redundant systems for, usually, all
of these features, to mitigate the problems when each
inevitably fails.
Colocation services
ease CAPEX (or capital
expenditures).
Economies of scale:
• Higher reliability due to redundant systems
• 24/7 monitoring by engineers
• Lower network latency and higher bandwidth at a
lower cost
• Specialist staff, which is more economical to pay
‘as needed’ rather than keep permanently on staff
Profiles of Colocation customers:
• Web commerce companies, who use the facilities
for a safe environment and cost-effective, redundant
connections to the Internet
• Major enterprises, who use the facility for disaster
avoidance, offsite data backup and business continuity
• Telecommunication companies, who use the facilities
to exchange traffic with other telecommunications
companies and access to potential clients—a colo
facility where many carriers are physically present is
often called a ‘carrier hotel’; the presence of such a
facility at a colo increases its value to some classes
of potential customers
• eCommerce sites, who use the facilities to house
servers dedicated to processing secure transactions
online
Typically, colocation services offer the physical
infrastructure, power, security, cooling, and bandwidth
options while the clients provide specialized server and
storage equipment. Space within Recall’s facility is
customized to fit the customer’s requirements; full rack,
partial rack, secure cages, and custom square footage.
Many business owners incorporate colocation services
in their planning strategy to manage capacity issues
caused by space constraints in their main data center and
to minimize the impact of CAPEX (capital expenditures)
usually associated with a large building or managing a big
computing facility. Additionally in recent times, customers
are also utilizing colocation facilities to deploy their
computing resources to be in closer proximity to remote
locations, for disaster recovery considerations, and for
cloud computing strategies.
“Incorporate colocation services to
better manage space and capacity
issues.”
To learn more about Colocation Services with Recall, please call 1.888.RECALL6