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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…