What Is Data Center Outsourcing?

Data center as a service (DCaaS) is the process of providing customers with off-site physical data center facilities and infrastructure.

Data Center as a Service

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Data center as a service (DCaaS) is the process of providing customers with off-site physical data center facilities and infrastructure.

Data center as a service (DCaaS) is the process of providing customers with off-site physical data center facilities and infrastructure. Customers lease access to the provider's data center using servers, networks, storage, and other computing resources owned by the DCaaS provider.

A data center as a service (DCaaS) provider is usually used by a company that cannot expand its data center. They may have insufficient power or cooling, insufficient physical space, insufficient funds, insufficient experienced IT staff, or It cannot be expanded without other factors. By turning to a data center as a service provider, customers essentially outsource part (or possibly all) of their data center to the provider. The customer then remotely accesses the provider's computing resources over a wide area network (WAN).

For example, a company may choose to focus on maintaining a small number of business-critical applications internally. Instead of adding staff or investing in additional computing hardware, enterprises will lease resources from data center as a service (DCaaS) providers to handle secondary or temporary applications.

The biggest concern for data center as a service (DCaaS) providers is availability and business continuity. For example, a provider outage or a WAN outage can make some applications unavailable. Even when service level agreements (SLAs) explicitly specify availability, careful consideration should be given to the involvement of unexpected downtime. DCaaS providers are also enterprises. They sometimes share manpower issues with other enterprises. If they fail by accident, customers will face challenges in restoring the affected applications. ^[1]