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Featured July 7, 2026

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 point of audit; sustained operational discipline is what keeps those…

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July 7, 2026 Insights

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 sense once…

July 7, 2026 Insights

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 — are…

July 7, 2026 Insights

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 is easy…

July 7, 2026 Insights

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 increasingly affects…

July 7, 2026 Insights

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 history matters…

July 7, 2026 Insights

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 without realising…