How Often Should You Actually Test Disaster Recovery? — 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
Colocation Benchmarks: What “Good” Actually Looks Like — Updated for 2026
Benchmarking colocation performance is harder than it sounds, since providers rarely publish figures using the same definitions or measurement windows.The…
Rack, Cage, or Private Suite: Choosing the Right Colocation Footprint — Updated for 2026
Choosing between a shared rack, a locked cage, and a private suite is really a question about how much control…
How Network Diversity Protects Against Single Points of Failure — Updated for 2026
Network diversity protects against a specific, common failure mode — a single upstream provider outage taking a facility fully offline.Ask…
Regional Spotlight: What Makes a Metro a Colocation Hub — Updated for 2026 (2)
What turns a city into a genuine colocation hub is rarely one factor alone — it is the combination of…
Colocation SLA Penalties: What They Cover and What They Do Not — Updated for 2026
An SLA is only as good as its remedies. Service credits that amount to a small fraction of monthly fees…
How Vacancy Rates Are Reshaping Colocation Negotiations — Updated for 2026
Tightening vacancy rates change the negotiating dynamic entirely — in a supply-constrained market, buyers who move early keep leverage that…
Water Usage Effectiveness: The Metric Colocation Buyers Overlook — Updated for 2026
Water usage is the metric that gets far less attention than PUE, yet it matters enormously in water-stressed regions where…
Regional Spotlight: What Makes a Metro a Colocation Hub — Updated for 2026
What turns a city into a genuine colocation hub is rarely one factor alone — it is the combination of…
Modular and Pod-Based Data Center Design Explained — Updated for 2026
Modular and pod-based design trades some of the economies of scale of a large build for speed to market and…