What a Facility Audit Should Actually Cover
A facility audit is only useful if it goes beyond the marketing tour — the questions worth asking are the…
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Evaluating Data Center Certifications: What Actually Matters
Certifications are a useful filter, not a guarantee. They confirm a facility has the right controls in place at the…
Rolling Out Colocation Across Multiple Countries: A Playbook
Rolling out colocation across multiple countries multiplies not just logistics but regulatory and compliance complexity, often in ways a single-market…
Colocation Contract Renewals: How to Avoid Overpaying
Colocation contracts reward careful reading precisely because the parts that matter most — renewal escalators, exit terms, and SLA remedies…
Edge Colocation: Bringing Compute Closer to Users
Edge colocation trades the economies of scale of a large campus for proximity to end users, a trade-off that makes…
Colocation for Healthcare: HIPAA and Data Residency Basics
Healthcare workloads bring data residency and compliance requirements that narrow the provider shortlist well before price ever enters the conversation.It…
Renewable Energy Procurement and Colocation Facility Selection
Renewable energy procurement has become a genuine factor in facility selection, not just a sustainability talking point — and it…
Generator and UPS Design: What Sits Behind “99.999% Uptime”
Headline uptime figures are easy to publish and hard to verify independently, which is exactly why asking for real incident…
Writing a Colocation RFP That Gets You Comparable Bids
A well-structured RFP is what makes provider quotes genuinely comparable — without one, buyers are often comparing apples to oranges…
Modeling Total Cost of Ownership for a Colocation Deployment
A total cost of ownership model only earns its name if it includes the costs that do not show up…