Guide to Choosing On-Premises, Colocation, and Cloud Infrastructure

DataBank has published a comprehensive 2026 guide comparing on-premises, colocation, and public cloud infrastructure and positioning its Data Center Evolved™ platform as the foundation for hybrid strategies.

• Main announcement: DataBank publishes an objective infrastructure guide and promotes the Data Center Evolved™ platform across 75+ U.S. facilities, providing flexible colocation, direct cloud connectivity (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), and contract portability; the guide includes a detailed 5-year cost analysis showing On-Premises $5.6M, Colocation $5.75M, and Public Cloud $9.25M totals for the presented 100-server scenario.
• Background and details: The guide offers a decision framework (workload inventory, connectivity, migration sequencing, continuous optimization), operational metrics (latency, throughput, staffing), and real customer cases including a Financial Services Firm with $6.2M annual cloud spend repatriation yielding 37% cost reduction, and a Healthcare SaaS Provider repatriation yielding 39% cost reduction; implementation timelines and deployment times are specified (e.g., on-premises 6–18 months, colocation 2–8 weeks, cloud minutes–hours).