To improve colo contract renewal outcomes, astute users should carefully create and execute a renewal plan, usually including several sequential phases.

To best understand the extent to which supply chain shortages have affected enterprise IT strategies, it’s helpful to evaluate the supply chain delays through two paradigms: one of abundance and another of scarcity.

Companies are increasingly seeking data center facilities that are dense, hybrid, green, and available.

Many mature enterprises are evaluating the applications and data sets which could be easily placed in public cloud — or easily updated for cloud suitability — and those which work better in colocation, essentially asking the question, “What goes where?”

While many facility issues are important in colo selection, enterprises can advance their colocation selection process by narrowing their range of choices geographically.