Why 4d?
Affordability
Building and managing an in-house Data Centre is extremely expensive. Management, maintenance, infrastructure, equipment and labour as well as opportunity costs for testing, installing and upgrading equipment can be reduced dramatically through using 4D's data centres to house your business’s servers. These will be located in secure cabinets (known as “racks”) to which only people authorised by you have access. The racks are housed in a secure data room along with racks owned by other clients of the data centre. This is why data centres of this type are often referred to as a “colocation facility”.
Use of a colocation facility enables the high overhead cost of a data centre to be shared making the cost per rack usually well below what it would be if the servers were to be installed in your own premises and usually to a much higher degree of security and reliability.
Increased Reliability and Reduced Employee Risk
The majority of in-house data centres employ a customised or bespoke architecture and therefore the original developers and long term staff are typically the only people able to operate and manage the infrastructure. In comparison, 4D provides standardised solutions which are faster and more reliable, having been implemented many times over for our clients and being subject to constant improvement.Scalability
Many IT-reliant businesses and projects experience very rapid growth and this creates the need for an infrastructure that can be quickly and reliably scaled. Although businesses may have the resources to purchase IT equipment in the quantities required to support this rapid growth, recruiting and retaining the additional IT staff to install, maintain and support this mission –critical infrastructure is not so easy. 4D Data Centres can help to mitigate this risk of scalability by having both sufficient staff resources and technical infrastructure always available for your business to grow.Why 4D Data Centres?
As well as all of the advantages listed above, there are some additional services we provide that many other data centres either charge extra for or don’t offer at all:
- Access to your servers, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- 15 minutes free remote technical assistance every day, known as “remote hands”
- Online portal for account management, power control, reporting, billing and helpdesk
- Free delivery acceptance and short-term storage facility
- Industry standard racks to store your servers in, each of which is constructed from secure metal frames, solid metal side panels and meshed doors with combination locks
- 100% uptime service level agreement on power
- 99.999% uptime service level agreement on network