What Great On-Site Operations Teams Actually Do Differently — Updated for 2026
The quality of an on-site operations team rarely shows up in a sales pitch, yet it is often the single…
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Renewable Energy Procurement and Colocation Facility Selection — Updated for 2026
Renewable energy procurement has become a genuine factor in facility selection, not just a sustainability talking point — and it…
Cooling Strategy Choices: Air, Liquid, and Hybrid Approaches Compared — Updated for 2026
Cooling strategy has quietly become a capacity question as much as an engineering one — the racks a facility can…
Cooling Strategy Choices: Air, Liquid, and Hybrid Approaches Compared — Updated for 2026 (2)
Cooling strategy has quietly become a capacity question as much as an engineering one — the racks a facility can…
DDoS Protection at the Facility Level: What to Verify — Updated for 2026
DDoS protection at the facility level is worth verifying directly rather than assuming — the marketing language on this topic…
Writing a Colocation RFP That Gets You Comparable Bids — Updated for 2026
A well-structured RFP is what makes provider quotes genuinely comparable — without one, buyers are often comparing apples to oranges…
Colocation in Emerging Markets: Africa’s Data Center Boom — Updated for 2026
Emerging colocation markets tend to follow a recognisable pattern — connectivity investment arrives first, anchor tenants follow, and the metro…
Uptime Institute Tiers vs TIA-942: How the Standards Differ — Updated for 2026 (2)
Headline uptime figures are easy to publish and hard to verify independently, which is exactly why asking for real incident…
Exit Strategy: Planning a Colocation Migration Before You Need One — Updated for 2026 (2)
Migrations are won or lost in the planning phase — the technical move itself is rarely the hard part, sequencing…
Colocation Benchmarks: What “Good” Actually Looks Like — Updated for 2026 (3)
Benchmarking colocation performance is harder than it sounds, since providers rarely publish figures using the same definitions or measurement windows.Ask…