Colocation for Government and Public Sector Workloads — Updated for 2026
Government and public sector workloads typically demand a level of vendor scrutiny and documentation that goes beyond standard commercial due…
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Colocation Due Diligence: Questions to Ask Before You Sign — Updated for 2026
Due diligence on a colocation provider is worth treating like due diligence on any critical vendor: verify what is claimed,…
Colocation Benchmarks: What “Good” Actually Looks Like — Updated for 2026 (2)
Benchmarking colocation performance is harder than it sounds, since providers rarely publish figures using the same definitions or measurement windows.The…
Choosing a Colocation Facility Near Subsea Cable Infrastructure — Updated for 2026 (3)
Subsea cable landing points are not just a network engineering detail — they quietly shape which metros become colocation hubs…
How Often Should You Actually Test Disaster Recovery? — Updated for 2026 (2)
Disaster recovery plans that have never been tested are, in practice, untested assumptions — and the gap between assumption and…
Right-Sizing Your Colocation Footprint as You Scale — Updated for 2026
Right-sizing a footprint is a moving target, not a one-time calculation — the deployments that age well are the ones…
Regional Spotlight: What Makes a Metro a Colocation Hub — Updated for 2026 (3)
What turns a city into a genuine colocation hub is rarely one factor alone — it is the combination of…
Exit Strategy: Planning a Colocation Migration Before You Need One — Updated for 2026
Migrations are won or lost in the planning phase — the technical move itself is rarely the hard part, sequencing…
What a Facility Audit Should Actually Cover — Updated for 2026
A facility audit is only useful if it goes beyond the marketing tour — the questions worth asking are the…
Greenfield vs Brownfield Data Center Development — Updated for 2026 (2)
The greenfield-versus-brownfield choice in data center development comes down to a trade-off between design freedom and speed to operational capacity.Ask…