Managed Colocation in Tier-3 and Tier-4 Data Centres
Colocation means you own your servers but rent space, power, cooling and connectivity in a secure third-party data centre. Layots Technologies provides managed colocation in tier-3 and tier-4 facilities including Yotta, STT and Equinix, covering rack space, power, cross-connects and remote hands, and designs hybrid setups where regulated data stays in colocation while elastic workloads burst to public cloud.
- data centre facilities
- Tier 3–4
- data centre facilities
- operators: Yotta, STT, Equinix
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- operators: Yotta, STT, Equinix
- managed operations
- 24/7
- managed operations
Colocation Quote
Tell us how many racks or servers and the power you need.
What managed colocation includes
You keep ownership and control of the hardware. We handle the facility, the connectivity and the hands-on work inside it.
Rack space
Racks in tier-3 and tier-4 facilities including Yotta, STT and Equinix, sized to your footprint and growth.
Power & cooling
Power and cooling planned for the load, including high-density racks for GPU servers.
Cross-connects
Cross-connects to carriers and cloud on-ramps, so the colocated estate links to your offices and to public cloud.
Remote hands
Hardware installs, swaps, cabling and checks done on site for you, so your team does not have to travel.
Hybrid cloud
Regulated data stays in colocation while elastic workloads burst to public cloud with consistent tooling.
Migration & operations
Move servers from your premises into colocation, then 24/7 monitoring and management of the environment.
On-premise vs colocation vs public cloud
Three ways to host the same workload. Many estates use all three.
| On-premise / public cloud | Colocation | |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the servers | On-premise: you. Cloud: the provider | You do |
| Who provides the building, power and cooling | On-premise: you. Cloud: the provider | The data centre operator |
| Best for | On-premise: small or legacy estates. Cloud: bursty, unpredictable load | Steady, predictable workloads and regulated data |
| Cost pattern | On-premise: capital-heavy. Cloud: pay per use, can creep | Own the hardware, predictable monthly facility fee |
| Resilience | Depends on your own facility or the cloud region | Tier-3 and tier-4 power, cooling and network redundancy |
What companies use colocation for
The reasons we see most often for moving servers into a colocation facility.
Leaving the server room
Best for: Offices whose server rooms have run out of power, cooling or space.
- Professional power and cooling
- No more server room maintenance
- Keep the same hardware
Disaster recovery site
Best for: A second site to fail over to when the primary is lost.
- Replication and automated failover
- Immutable backups
- Tested RTO and RPO
Steady workloads
Best for: Flat, 24/7 workloads that cost more in public cloud.
- Often cheaper than on-demand cloud
- Predictable monthly cost
- Burst to cloud for peaks
AI and GPU servers
Best for: GPU estates that need high-density racks.
- Air-cooled GPU racks draw 10–14 kW
- Dense liquid-cooled racks exceed 40 kW
- Power and cooling assessed first
Why colocation instead of building a data centre
Building your own facility to tier-3 standards means paying for redundant power, cooling, fire suppression, physical security and multiple carriers before the first server goes in. Colocation gives you all of that in a shared facility, while you keep ownership of the hardware and the data on it.
- You own and control the servers and data
- Facility-grade power, cooling and security from day one
- Grow rack by rack instead of building ahead of demand
- Colocation for disaster recovery
How a move into colocation works
- 01
Assess
Inventory servers, storage, power draw, connectivity and dependencies.
- 02
Design
Choose the facility and rack layout, power, cross-connects and any hybrid cloud links.
- 03
Migrate
Move hardware in planned waves with cut-over and rollback plans.
- 04
Operate
24/7 monitoring, remote hands and colocation management, or hand-over to your team.
See also: Digital infrastructure · Server virtualization in Hyderabad · Cloud cost optimization
Colocation: common questions
Colocation means you own the servers but rent space, power, cooling and connectivity in a secure third-party data centre. It sits between running servers in your own facility (on-premise) and renting virtualised capacity from a provider (public cloud).
Tier-3 and tier-4 facilities including Yotta, STT and Equinix, with managed rack, power, cross-connect and remote-hands services.
Steady-state workloads with flat, predictable demand are frequently cheaper on owned hardware in colocation than in public cloud, and colocation keeps regulated data on infrastructure you own. Cloud is better for bursty, seasonal or unpredictable demand. Layots often designs hybrids: regulated and steady workloads in colocation, elastic workloads in the cloud.
Yes. Colocation keeps data on hardware you own in a facility you choose, which makes data residency and access control simpler to evidence. Layots designs hybrid setups where regulated data stays in colocation while other workloads use public cloud.
Layots serves colocation customers from its offices in Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, and manages colocation in tier-3 and tier-4 facilities including Yotta, STT and Equinix. Tell us where you need to be and we will propose the right facility.
Yes, with planning. An air-cooled GPU rack typically draws 10 to 14 kW and dense liquid-cooled racks can exceed 40 kW, several times a traditional rack. Layots assesses power, cooling and floor loading before hardware is ordered.
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Tell us how many racks or servers you have, the power they draw and where you need to be. We will come back with a facility recommendation and a quote.
- A solution architect reviews your requirement
- We respond, usually within one business day
- You get a practical, costed recommendation
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