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Vendor Landscape: European Co-location/Managed Services

Rome wasn't built in a day. Take the time to evaluate the European market.

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Your Challenge

  • The decision to co-locate all or part of the data center facility overseas can be risky. IT leaders in North American organizations that are suddenly charged with managing global facilities often lack the time to properly evaluate this critical decision, and are not familiar with the European managed services market.
  • Distance overseas can make the co-location/managed services engagement more difficult to manage. North American organizations outsourcing in Europe must pay close attention to the vendor’s engagement practices, service, and support when choosing a vendor.
  • European organizations looking to co-locate all or part of their data center facility must also choose the vendor carefully. Because the market is so commoditized in the facilities and services they provide, vendors will go to great lengths to differentiate themselves, creating a disguised differentiation where they do whatever they can to not look like another vendor. This makes it hard for organizations to get back to the apples-to-apples comparison, creating additional confusion.

Our Advice

Critical Insight
  • Many European vendors are located in metropolitan areas/business hubs to serve organizations that are highly transactional; however, these locations often come with added costs.
  • The European co-location/managed services market is more advanced than other countries in their green technology efforts, also making facilities more efficient and allowing vendors to pass along cost savings in some cases.
  • In a continent where telecom services are not yet open, owning and managing a network can be a key differentiator as they can offer a more stringent SLA for lower latency and higher availability to customers.
Impact and Result
  • Understand what’s new in the European co-location/managed services market.
  • Evaluate European co-location/managed services vendors and services for your enterprise needs.
  • Determine which services are most appropriate for particular use cases and scenarios.

Get to Action

  1. Evaluate European Co-location/managed services providers and available solutions

    Understand the European Co-location/Managed Services provider market, the players, and their products.

  2. Identify the solutions that best fit enterprise needs

    Develop a customized shortlist to speed solution selection.

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Rome wasn't built in a day. Take the time to evaluate the European market.

Companies Who Helped

  • AT&T
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Solution Road Map

Other Solution Sets in Outsourcing/Shared & Managed Services
1. Develop a Co-location Strategy
Successful data center co-location strategies are a function of cost and vendor selection.
2. Manage SLAs with Co-location Providers
The SLA is about communication, not penalties.
3. Vendor Landscape: Canadian Co-location/Managed Services
Sort through disguised differentiation in the market to get back to an apples-to-apples comparison.
4. Vendor Landscape: US Co-location/Managed Services
Learn how to navigate the super-sized US market.
5. Vendor Landscape: European Co-location/Managed Services
Rome wasn't built in a day. Take the time to evaluate the European market.
View the full Solution Road Map