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Colocation — Your Hardware, Data Center Infrastructure

Keep control of your server hardware while gaining data center reliability, redundant power, and high-speed connectivity. Axio Networks helps Scottsdale businesses plan and manage colocation deployments.

Your Servers Deserve Better Than a Closet With a Portable AC

Some workloads should stay on hardware you own — heavy databases, specialized applications, equipment with years of life left. But a server closet in a Scottsdale office is a single power circuit, a wall-unit air conditioner and a door that half the staff know the code to. One summer outage or one cooling failure costs more than a year of proper hosting.

Axio Networks plans and manages colocation for businesses that want data-center reliability without giving up their hardware: facility selection, rack and network design, migration, remote-hands service and ongoing management from the same team that supports the rest of your IT.

What's Included with Colocation Services

Tier III+ Data Center Facilities

Secure, climate-controlled facilities with 24/7 physical security, redundant power, and high-bandwidth fiber connectivity.

Remote Hands Support

Axio Networks can perform on-site data center tasks on your behalf — no need to drive out for a cable swap or reboot.

Lower Cost Than a Private Data Center

Eliminate the capital and operational cost of building your own data center while retaining full control of your hardware.

Facility Selection & Contracting

We evaluate Phoenix-area data centers on power redundancy, cooling, physical security, carrier options and contract terms, and negotiate space and bandwidth that fit your actual needs.

Rack, Network & Migration Design

Rack layout, redundant power feeds, firewall and switching, out-of-band management and the cutover plan that moves servers from your office with a defined outage window.

Hybrid Cloud Integration

Colocated servers connected to Azure or Microsoft 365 through private links, so you can run what belongs on your hardware while using the cloud for backup, failover and growth.

How Axio Networks Delivers Colocation

1

Assess

We inventory hardware, power draw, bandwidth and application dependencies and confirm which systems belong in colocation versus cloud.

2

Select and design

Facility, rack size, power, cross-connects and network are chosen and designed with redundancy where it matters.

3

Migrate

Servers are moved during a planned window with verified backups and tested connectivity before cutover.

4

Manage

Monitoring, patching, remote-hands requests and hardware lifecycle are handled under managed IT.

Why Scottsdale Businesses Choose Axio Networks for Colocation

Independent facility advice. Axio Networks is not a data-center operator; we recommend the facility and contract that fit you, and we manage the relationship on your behalf.

One team for everything. Servers in colocation, users in the office, mailboxes in Microsoft 365 — all supported by the same local engineers with a single point of contact.

Built for Arizona conditions. Tier III+ facilities with redundant cooling and power eliminate the heat and utility risks that threaten on-site server rooms every summer.

A stepping stone, not a dead end. Colocation integrates with cloud services, so you can shift workloads over time without a forced migration.

Colocation FAQs

With colocation you own the servers and rent secure space, power and connectivity in a data center. With cloud hosting you rent virtual servers on someone else’s hardware. Colocation suits owned equipment and specialized workloads; cloud suits flexibility and no capital spend.

Axio Networks works with established Tier III+ facilities in the Phoenix metro area and selects by redundancy, security, connectivity and contract terms for each client rather than reselling one provider.

Rarely. Remote-hands service handles reboots, cable changes and hardware swaps; out-of-band management lets our engineers reach servers even when the operating system is down.

Most small and mid-sized businesses fit in a quarter or half rack. We measure your equipment and power draw and size the contract accordingly, with room to grow.

Yes. A common design keeps databases or specialized applications on owned hardware in colocation while backup, disaster recovery and productivity tools run in the cloud.

Evaluating Colocation for Your Business?

Call 480-602-2946