Colocation Due Diligence: Questions to Ask Before You Sign β Updated for 2026 (6)
Due diligence on a colocation provider is worth treating like due diligence on any critical vendor: verify what is claimed, do not…
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Due diligence on a colocation provider is worth treating like due diligence on any critical vendor: verify what is claimed, do not…
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ISO 27001 signals that a facility has a structured information security management system in place β useful evidence, though it is worth…
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Migrations are won or lost in the planning phase β the technical move itself is rarely the hard part, sequencing and validating…
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Most colocation migrations fail on sequencing, not technology β moving the wrong workload first is a far more common cause of downtime…
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A facility audit is only useful if it goes beyond the marketing tour β the questions worth asking are the ones the…
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AI and accelerated-compute workloads have rewritten the assumptions colocation buyers used to rely on, particularly around power density, which now regularly exceeds…
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Cooling strategy has quietly become a capacity question as much as an engineering one β the racks a facility can actually support…
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Physical site risk rarely gets the scrutiny it deserves during procurement, even though a facility's location says as much about resilience as…
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