The realisation that your business premise is not the "best" place to locate your key data servers is something that most business owners will arrive at sooner or later.

This realisation is one thing, but the solution to the issue is a completely different matter. Do you "improve" the back room that your servers are currently in?  Buy a better UPS? Upgrade the Air Conditioner?  All of the Above?

The true impact of the above "upgrades" is often a lot less impressive than the "plans" suggested.  For all intents and purposes, all that is achieved is a very expensive little room that still does not remove the largest risk of all - single point of failure.  Any one of a large number of "events" can render your business premise uninhabitable - if both your IT systems and your "backup" paper based systems are in the same place, then you simply can't do business.

Rather than "upgrading" where you are and still having a single point of failure, splitting your assets (IT systems and paper systems) across two sites will give immediate head ache relief.

Reacting to this risk management process, Microsolve has established Data Centre facilities within geographically separate locations throughout Australia.  These facilities are generally bundled with our hosting solutions, however, where client requirements dictate, we are able to offer very competitive direct access to these locations and there associated services.