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21%annual growth in the data center construction market is expected through 2018, thanks to the high demand for colocation services.4

The Rise of Colocation

79%of small- and medium-sized businesses surveyed by IDC said that network downtime costs them at least $20,000 per hour.5

The Cost of Downtime

saw improvements in service availability

spend less time managing IT

improved customer services

75%are less worriedabout outages

96%

36%51%

94%of surveyed companies that adopted cloud strategies report added security benefits.3

Benefits of the Cloud

VMware® Virtual Machine

NetApp® FAS Storage

Cisco UCS®Servers

Verizon Virtual Private Cloud

NetAppSnapMirror®

A Verizon colocation facility provides direct access to on-premises servers, keeping sensitive data secure.

Data is replicated to the cloud and can be replicated back to the colocation facility in the event of disaster.

Replicating data every hour allows a two-hour service- level agreement for full recovery.

BlackLine’s Hybrid SolutionHere’s how BlackLine, a company that provides more than 1,000 global companies with finance controls and automation software, moved from a managed hosting environment to a hybrid solution tailored to its exact needs.

of surveyed enterprise-level businesses have a hybrid cloud strategy. Most use both private and public cloud infrastructures already.1

of small- and medium-sized-business executives say cloud services bring products or services to production more quickly.2

of businesses operating in the cloud say they wish they had made the move sooner.3

74%

43%

71%

In the Cloud

Since moving to a hybrid cloud environment, BlackLine significantly reduced its hosting and operating costs, while improving performance and recovery time.

Take a hybrid approach to garner the benefits of the public cloud while meeting the security and performance requirements of a private cloud.

HYBRID CLOUDThe Cloud on Your Terms