Analysis, market trends, and practical guidance on data-center infrastructure, colocation, connectivity, and the global digital economy.
Redundancy on a spec sheet and resilience in practice are two different things — the gap between them only shows up during…
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A good buyer's guide earns its keep by naming the questions vendors hope you will not ask, not by repeating the ones…
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Colocation contracts reward careful reading precisely because the parts that matter most — renewal escalators, exit terms, and SLA remedies — are…
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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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Headline uptime figures are easy to publish and hard to verify independently, which is exactly why asking for real incident history matters…
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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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Streaming and media workloads place unusual demands on bandwidth and peering that a standard colocation deployment is not always built to absorb…
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Provider consolidation reshapes the market from the buyer's side too, often shifting negotiating leverage well before a renewal date arrives.The economics of…
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