For many on the enterprise side of the data center market, cloud and colocation are often simplistically presented as competing offerings to a common problem. Seeking outsourced solutions to their data center capacity requirements, they are presented with the choice of either tapping into the cloud in the form of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, or shifting their computing resources to a hosted environment as offered by colocation providers.