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

How can data center professionals make the right network management decisions to maximize business continuity, reduce time to market, lower costs, and decrease risks?

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?”

Several potential challenges can present themselves when fitting out or retrofitting a colocation facility.

Site selection used to be about the best spot to build a facility. Now, it’s about finding the best place to build a future. 

There’s a lot to consider when it comes to choosing a colocation facility — like data center proximity, telecom latency, business continuity, employee availability, and environmental and economic factors, to name a few. Take this quiz to see how much you know about colo selection and procurement best practices.

Companies that focus on colocation services will experience rising demand, especially those that are strategically placed to cover promising geographical regions, such as Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The initial 25,000-square-foot facility can accommodate more than 400 cabinets of IT equipment and 3 MW of power.