CoreSite and IDG released a report which examines the latest data center trends, strategies, requirements, and other findings from an annual quantitative survey and in-depth interviews with senior IT decision makers. Security and flexibility/scalability were reported as top two primary reasons to migrate workloads to colocation solution. Thirty-five percent surveyed say that colocation lowers operational costs and improves TCO. 46% of respondents say their companies are gravitating to an operating expense model for IT spending. Ninety-three of 100 IT leaders say they are confident their colocation partners can enable future transformation initiatives.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/05/31/how-colocation-can-improve-tco-for-the-enterprise/