6 | THE DATA CENTER JOURNAL
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Rather than being a highly compartmentalized industry, IT is increasingly a
continuum of options in which companies can select from a smorgasbord
of possibilities that range from a purely traditional data center to an entirely
outsourced cloud model. Sitting somewhere near the middle are colocation
providers, which offer a means for companies to retain some of the benefits
of hardware ownership while offloading the peripherals of data center
operation—cooling, site security, network connectivity, power delivery
and so on. But some of these providers go beyond just facilities to deliver
even more services, including cloud-based ones. Here's a look at what's
happening with colocation at the intersection of traditional IT and the cloud.
