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Dirik Hameed
Collocation is a hosting service where space for hosting equipment and bandwidth is rented out to retail customers. The centers provide customers with storage space, power, and system cooling and physical security for their servers, storage or networking equipments. The service comes with a minimum cost. It is most popular with enterprises with midsize IT requirements in particular with those engaging in internet related operations. This is because the IT staffs are freed from work connected to maintain the servers in-house and concentrate on the actual work. It is also a cost saving business strategy. The service also provides an avenue for the leasing organizations and individuals to connect to cloud computing communities. These communities consist of a variety of independent software vendors, CDNs and ISPs internet carriers and service providers. The leasing parties are provided with opportunities to forge partnership, generate revenue through service provision and access to cost-effective services that can be used to launch and manage cloud computing. It will be largely influenced by the developments and adoption of cloud computing by businesses, government agencies and individuals. The cloud computing industry is picking up rapidly with the introduction of mobile computing devices. This will lead to a shift in companies outsourcing their data and server storage to third parties to ensure that they are co-located to ensure connectivity, security, reliability, scalability and supporting infrastructure are always assured. The speed of transformation in the storage industry will accelerate in 2012 mostly due to the evolution in cloud computing being spear headed by IT companies and adoption of fast processing computing devices such as tablets and smart phones. Some predictions for colo in 2012 depend entirely at the rate of roll out of cloud computing. One of them is that pure cloud storage will give way to hybrid storage that integrates public and private storage with modern on-premise storage systems which offer a combination of services. Small and medium enterprises will spur the growth of IT storage industry leading to its consumerization. These will have the effect of rapid adoption of innovative storage technologies currently not in mass distribution. They include technologies with the capability of automatic data protection and storage devices such as the advance solid-state drives commonly known as SSDs. One prediction is that the need for third party data and server storage will be in big demand as more and more individuals become service providers in the IT industry and its related activities. Mobile computing, especially by persons working in the ICT, media and sales fields using powerful portable computing devices will require reliable and secure access to data to accomplish their tasks. These will in effect accelerate third party data storage with the ability to provide most of the requirements necessary for effective service delivery. It expected that security breaches will be rampant and thus the need for secure data storage will be a top priority especially to organizations and individuals who house their own data storage facilities. Another expectation is the increased demand for storage facilities in Africa due the continuing convergence of computing, social media and service delivery. There are many predictions forecasting the growth of colocation data storage centers.
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