What Changes When You Move From Shared to Dedicated Suites — Updated for 2026 (3)
Moving from shared to dedicated infrastructure changes more than the bill — it shifts a meaningful share of operational responsibility…
Month: July 2026
How to Choose Between Tier III and Tier IV Colocation Data Centers — Updated for 2026 (2)
Tier IV facilities are engineered for fault tolerance — every capacity system is dual-powered, so a single failure never takes…
Colocation for Streaming and Media: Bandwidth-Heavy Workload Planning — Updated for 2026
Streaming and media workloads place unusual demands on bandwidth and peering that a standard colocation deployment is not always built…
Regional Spotlight: The Middle East Data Center Build-Out — Updated for 2026 (2)
The Middle East's data center build-out has been driven as much by economic diversification strategy as by raw digital demand.There…
The Rise of AI Workloads and What It Means for Colocation Demand — Updated for 2026 (2)
AI and accelerated-compute workloads have rewritten the assumptions colocation buyers used to rely on, particularly around power density, which now…
Data Sovereignty and Why Colocation Facility Location Matters — Updated for 2026 (3)
Data sovereignty requirements have turned facility location from a cost decision into a compliance one, and the rules vary enough…
Writing a Colocation RFP That Gets You Comparable Bids — Updated for 2026 (2)
A well-structured RFP is what makes provider quotes genuinely comparable — without one, buyers are often comparing apples to oranges…
Colocation for AI and GPU Workloads: Power Density Realities — Updated for 2026 (2)
AI and accelerated-compute workloads have rewritten the assumptions colocation buyers used to rely on, particularly around power density, which now…
How Often Should You Actually Test Disaster Recovery? — Updated for 2026 (3)
Disaster recovery plans that have never been tested are, in practice, untested assumptions — and the gap between assumption and…
Governing a Hybrid On-Premises, Colocation, and Cloud Estate — Updated for 2026 (4)
Governing a hybrid estate across on-premises, colocation, and cloud requires decisions about workload placement that are as much organisational as…