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…
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…
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…
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…