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A total cost of ownership model only earns its name if it includes the costs that do not show up on the…
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DDoS protection at the facility level is worth verifying directly rather than assuming — the marketing language on this topic varies more…
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Benchmarking colocation performance is harder than it sounds, since providers rarely publish figures using the same definitions or measurement windows.Ask ten infrastructure…
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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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Edge colocation trades the economies of scale of a large campus for proximity to end users, a trade-off that makes sense once…
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Bandwidth costs in colocation vary by more than most buyers expect, and the price per Mbps is rarely the headline number in…
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Water usage is the metric that gets far less attention than PUE, yet it matters enormously in water-stressed regions where a facility's…
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Cooling strategy has quietly become a capacity question as much as an engineering one — the racks a facility can actually support…
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