What are our data sources?
We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in colocation services category. Our data sources in colocation services category include;
Colocation services, also called colocation providers or data center infrastructure providers, support businesses that need physical data centers without having the requirement of owning their on-premises data center. They can rent private, shared, or mixed data centers to these firms.
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We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in colocation services category. Our data sources in colocation services category include;
review websites
social media websites
search engine data for branded queries
According to the weighted combination of 7 data sources
Digital Realty
Atos Healthcare
Pulsant Services
NaviSite Managed Cloud
CyrusOne
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current colocation services market leaders. Market leaders are not the overall leaders since market leadership doesn’t take into account growth rate.
Digital Realty
Atos Healthcare
Pulsant Services
NaviSite Managed Cloud
CyrusOne
These are the number of queries on search engines which include the brand name of the solution. Compared to other Storage / Data Center categories, Colocation Services is more concentrated in terms of top 3 companies’ share of search queries. Top 3 companies receive 59%, 7% more than the average of search queries in this area.
127 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 106 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 18 companies with >10 employees are offering colocation services. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 400k employees. The largest company building colocation services is PwC with more than 100,000 employees.
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the fastest growing solutions:
Digital Realty
Atos Healthcare
Pulsant Services
NaviSite Managed Cloud
CyrusOne
We have analyzed reviews published in the last months. These were published in 4 review platforms as well as vendor websites where the vendor had provided a testimonial from a client whom we could connect to a real person.
These solutions have the best combination of high ratings from reviews and number of reviews when we take into account all their recent reviews.
This data is collected from customer reviews for all Colocation Services companies.
According to customer reviews, most common company size for colocation services customers is 51-1,000 employees. Customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 39% of colocation services customers. For an average Storage / Data Center solution, customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 36% of total customers.
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all Colocation Services. Colocation Services is most positively evaluated in terms of "Overall" but falls behind in "Likelihood to Recommend".
This category was searched on average for 2.4k times per month on search engines in 2022. This number has decreased to 1.9k in 2023. If we compare with other storage / data center solutions, a typical solution was searched 826 times in 2022 and this increased to 1k in 2023.