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Who is Colocity?
Colocity is a private IT services company that provides colocation, network connectivity, and managed infrastructure services for organizations running business applications in third party data center environments.
- Colocation services for enterprise servers, storage, and network equipment
- Managed infrastructure support, including monitoring and operational assistance
- Network connectivity, transport, and carrier interconnection options
- Business continuity and disaster recovery oriented hosting environments
- Data center operations focused on outsourced infrastructure processing needs
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Colocity operates in the IT services market, with an emphasis on data processing and outsourced infrastructure environments rather than packaged software. In enterprise use, its services fit organizations that need third party facilities for production systems, recovery environments, and network dense deployments without building or operating their own data center footprint. Typical use cases include housing server and storage estates, extending corporate networks into carrier connected facilities, and placing infrastructure close to partners, service providers, or regional users.
Its offering profile aligns with colocation and managed hosting adjacent service categories. In practical terms, that means customers supply some or all of their own hardware and software stacks, while Colocity provides cabinet or cage space, power, cooling, physical security, remote hands, and network access. In managed scenarios, enterprises may also use operational support for monitoring, incident response, maintenance coordination, and routine infrastructure administration. These services are commonly relevant to workloads that require predictable facility controls, compliance oriented operating procedures, and separation between application ownership and data center operations.
Technically, these environments are associated with standard enterprise infrastructure architectures: IP networking, carrier Ethernet, internet transit, private network interconnection, routing and switching, firewalls, virtualization hosts, storage arrays, and backup or replication systems used for continuity planning. Compared with public cloud infrastructure, colocation generally gives customers more direct control over physical hardware selection and network design. Compared with pure managed services, it places more responsibility for the application and platform stack on the customer, unless additional management layers are contracted.
Within current enterprise technology spending, Colocity is positioned as a provider of outsourced data center and connectivity services. That places it in the broader market for IT services supporting infrastructure operations, hosted computing environments, and related data processing requirements. The company competes where organizations buy facility based infrastructure services, network access, and operational support for business systems that remain tied to dedicated hardware or hybrid deployment models.
Our description of Colocity. Updated September 2026.
