If you are expanding your business and are starting to outgrow your servers, you have a couple of options open to you. One is that you can get bigger servers and maintain them on-site and deal with it with the staff you have. Another option is that you take advantage of a data center.

Data Center

A data center can also be called a server farm. It is a company that has a lot of servers and rents or sells space on those servers to host businesses' data. Your data is secure and you are given secure access to get to your data so that you can use it as necessary. It is really not much different than having your servers in another room, except your data may be across the country and you have to access it by using the Internet. There are a lot of good reasons to use a data center for your data. 

Infrastructure

One big reason is that keeping a lot of servers around takes a lot of infrastructure in your building. One computer can generate some heat. Many computers equals a lot of heat. That needs some extensive infrastructure that is either built into a prepared building or is retrofitted into an existing building. That infrastructure includes heavy duty cooling so that the servers don't burn themselves out, added electrical capacity to keep the servers and cooling systems going, and uninterruptible power supplies so that if there is a power outage, surges won't affect the servers and will give time for emergency generators to kick in. 

Maintenance

Another good reason for using a data center instead of having all your servers on-site is that you don't have to worry about maintaining the servers. That means that you don't have to have a dedicated IT employee or have employees who have IT as part of their job duties. The employees at the data center will take care of all that for you. 

Security

Keeping your data secure is very important. That will mean that your business can keep going. If you lose your data, it gets corrupted, or someone else gets into it, then you can have issues with keeping your business going. Part of security also means keep backups off-site so that you can access them if something happens on-site. A data center has to have good security because otherwise no one will want to use them.

Keeping your data off-site in a data center facility management makes a lot of sense. 

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