Contract Length Trade-Offs: Short-Term Flexibility vs Long-Term Rates
Colocation contracts reward careful reading precisely because the parts that matter most — renewal escalators, exit terms, and SLA remedies…
Month: July 2026
Uptime Institute Tiers vs TIA-942: How the Standards Differ
Headline uptime figures are easy to publish and hard to verify independently, which is exactly why asking for real incident…
How Subsea Cable Landing Points Influence Facility Site Selection
Subsea cable landing points are not just a network engineering detail — they quietly shape which metros become colocation hubs…
Water Usage Effectiveness: The Metric Colocation Buyers Overlook
Water usage is the metric that gets far less attention than PUE, yet it matters enormously in water-stressed regions where…
Capacity Planning: Forecasting Your Colocation Footprint
Capacity planning is where many colocation strategies quietly fail — not from poor execution, but from forecasting growth on last…
What Changes When You Move From Shared to Dedicated Suites
Moving from shared to dedicated infrastructure changes more than the bill — it shifts a meaningful share of operational responsibility…
Cross-Connects, Peering, and the Economics of Interconnection
Interconnection density compounds in value over time: every additional carrier and cloud on-ramp in a facility makes it more attractive…
Power Density Trends in Colocation: From 5kW to 80kW Racks
Power density has quietly become the real constraint on colocation capacity, often binding well before a facility runs out of…
Rack, Cage, or Private Suite: Choosing the Right Colocation Footprint
Choosing between a shared rack, a locked cage, and a private suite is really a question about how much control…
Disaster Recovery Colocation: Designing for the Worst Case
Disaster recovery plans that have never been tested are, in practice, untested assumptions — and the gap between assumption and…