The majority of firms using collocation providers don't know or care about green credentials, have a disaster recovery plan they can't pay for and rank bandwidth, security and redundancy as the top three services in importance.
Other findings of the collocation trends survey report by supplier Hosting.com included 37% don't know if virtualization will cut their use of space in their data center, 40% of respondents foresee virtualization having an impact on their datacenter space requirements, 21% expect no reduction.
The report said: "Increasingly, collocation clients and prospects are interested in managed services provided by collocation providers. This is a change from traditional colocation clients that did not want anyone to touch their infrastructure. Small and medium businesses choosing to colocate are looking to reduce costs and the management of the technology that allows them to accomplish their business objectives. Respondents rate "Remote Hands as a Service as the most valuable service option offered by colocation providers."
Over half don't know if collocation provider does anything to cut carbon footbprint - the same number 55% say it would have no influence on them anyway. Three quarters say they have a disaster recovery plan but less than half have sufficient budget for it and just 12 % have inter data center failover readiness.
Over one third have their collocation facility within 10 miles of the business - but an amazing 14% have collocation facilities over 250 miles from the office (mostly small companies).
The survey questioned 200 Hosting.com clients and prospects ranging in size from $1 million revenue to $100 billion.
Hosting operates 70 data centers across the US and abroad. The report can be found HERE (response form completion required)