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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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Compliance requirements shape the shortlist before pricing ever enters the conversation — a facility that cannot demonstrate the right controls is not…
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Benchmarking colocation performance is harder than it sounds, since providers rarely publish figures using the same definitions or measurement windows.The economics of…
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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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Interconnection density compounds in value over time: every additional carrier and cloud on-ramp in a facility makes it more attractive to the…
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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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An SLA is only as good as its remedies. Service credits that amount to a small fraction of monthly fees rarely reflect…
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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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