Pros and Cons of Build & Buy Data Centers

In present IT landscape, many companies are facing the question whether they should build a data center in their facility or buy a data center that suits their company needs. Here, in this blog, we are going to discuss all valid implications to be aware about before reaching a conclusion whether to build or buy a data center.

For reaching a right decision, it is important to firstly evaluate your core business strengths, experience, ability of internal resources, availability of funds, size and type of organization, these all factors are necessary to consider for making a wise decision.

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Build data center refers to building your own data center within the organization's facility depending upon the needs that best suits your company.	Buy data center refers to taking a facility on lease from a service provider whose competency lies in designing a data center based on customer's business requirements.
Other thing to consider is sensitivity to cash flow that can be another deciding factor. Whether company has enough funds to invest in equipment, maintain them and take charge of other expenditures. For building a data center, company needs more funds.	When it comes to buying a data center, it is a cost-effective option as compared to designing data center from the scratch. In this company needs to pay for only those services which they are using.
Another factor that can help you in taking a well-informed decision is dependency on internal resources, required deployment time-frame, accessibility to data center and most importantly your organization's experience and expertise in operating a data center.	In this operation, you don’t have to be concerned about running a data center as your provider will take care of required bandwidth, required equipment, security and privacy of data. The only pull back here can be your company needs to share the space with other company's so if you are comfortable with shared space then this makes a great choice.