I had the luxury to catch-up on a little reading over the weekend. There are several sites that I enjoy spending time on, and one of them is Network World. The article I've linked to below caught my eye and confirms where things seem to be headed. To me, it makes perfect sense to colocate, but that's probably because we operate a number of colocation facilities. Why would an organization want to build a data center? Unless you've done it many times before, you now have to learn something completely new or spend a considerable amount of money on contracting data center design specialists. When it comes to designing and operating a data center, there is too much at stake if you don't do it right the first time or if you don't have seasoned datacenter operations people on your payroll to manage it around the clock.

I vote for leaving data center operation up to the experts. At UberBandwidth.com, we have a dedicated staff of professionals who manage power, cooling, network connectivity and everything else that a mission critical data center requires 24x7x365. Take advantage of it... save time, a lot of money.. and focus on your core business!

Downturn drives demand for outsourced datacenters
For the full Network World Article: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/022709-downturn-drives-demand-for-outsourced.html