Colocation facilities make a lot of sense for companies that don’t want to own, operate, or manage an increasingly complex, specialized, and expensive data center (DC). Why not delegate the stress of keeping your data center running smoothly to a specialist? This means that for data center operators (DCOs), infrastructure reliability and emergency response capability is essential — downtime is not an option. In this environment, testing is a critical element in meeting customer service level agreements (SLAs) and/or internal performance objectives. In a modern data center, there are thousands of links, cables, transponders, and connections, or, to it put frankly: thousands of potential points of failure. The following is a list of common key test use cases for DCOs.
Due to the importance of the data stored in data centers, most DCOs back up data to another data center to ensure quick disaster recovery and safeguard their customers’ business continuance.