Analysis, market trends, and practical guidance on data-center infrastructure, colocation, connectivity, and the global digital economy.
The advertised rack rate is rarely the number that determines total spend — cross-connects, power draw, and renewal terms usually move the…
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Governing a hybrid estate across on-premises, colocation, and cloud requires decisions about workload placement that are as much organisational as technical.Ask ten…
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Colocation pricing rarely lines up cleanly across providers, because the headline rate is only one line in a bill shaped by cross-connects,…
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Capacity planning is where many colocation strategies quietly fail — not from poor execution, but from forecasting growth on last year's trajectory.Behind…
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Tightening vacancy rates change the negotiating dynamic entirely — in a supply-constrained market, buyers who move early keep leverage that latecomers simply…
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Disaster recovery plans that have never been tested are, in practice, untested assumptions — and the gap between assumption and reality tends…
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Physical security standards vary more between facilities than most buyers expect, and the gap between "has cameras" and a genuinely layered, audited…
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PUE is easy to quote and easy to misread — a low number on a marketing page does not always reflect real-world…
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