Disaster Recovery Colocation: Designing for the Worst Case — Updated for 2026
Disaster recovery plans that have never been tested are, in practice, untested assumptions — and the gap between assumption and…
Month: July 2026
Edge Colocation: Bringing Compute Closer to Users — Updated for 2026 (2)
Edge colocation trades the economies of scale of a large campus for proximity to end users, a trade-off that makes…
Immersion and Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling: A Buyer Primer — Updated for 2026
Cooling strategy has quietly become a capacity question as much as an engineering one — the racks a facility can…
What Changes When You Move From Shared to Dedicated Suites — Updated for 2026
Moving from shared to dedicated infrastructure changes more than the bill — it shifts a meaningful share of operational responsibility…
Evaluating Data Center Certifications: What Actually Matters — Updated for 2026 (2)
Certifications are a useful filter, not a guarantee. They confirm a facility has the right controls in place at the…
DDoS Protection at the Facility Level: What to Verify — Updated for 2026 (2)
DDoS protection at the facility level is worth verifying directly rather than assuming — the marketing language on this topic…
Choosing Between Retail and Wholesale Colocation Pricing — Updated for 2026 (2)
Colocation pricing rarely lines up cleanly across providers, because the headline rate is only one line in a bill shaped…
Modeling Total Cost of Ownership for a Colocation Deployment — Updated for 2026 (3)
A total cost of ownership model only earns its name if it includes the costs that do not show up…
How Subsea Cable Landing Points Influence Facility Site Selection — Updated for 2026 (2)
Subsea cable landing points are not just a network engineering detail — they quietly shape which metros become colocation hubs…
A Buyer’s Guide to Carrier-Neutral Colocation — Updated for 2026 (2)
A good buyer's guide earns its keep by naming the questions vendors hope you will not ask, not by repeating…