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Understanding Data Center Customer and Provider Responsibilities

Increasingly, companies (network providers, cloud providers and enterprises) are moving from on-premises data centers to colocation. Why? In this post, we discuss the relationship ...

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Hot or Not? How Data Center Thermal Standards Impact Energy Use and Costs

It’s no secret that energy consumed by data centers will mushroom as the demand for digital services and higher computing power continues to grow. Every activity on the internet passes ...

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Data Center Security: When Security Gets Physical

Expect the unexpected: A mantra that I repeat everyday when it comes to the physical security of our data centers. In the world of data center security, you must be aware of any and ...

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Supporting Remote Work with Colocation

When COVID-19 burst onto the scene in March 2020, IT departments raced to provide a suddenly distributed workforce with the necessary resources to perform their jobs from outside the ...

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Strengthening Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with Colocation

The impacts of unanticipated downtime are intensifying as businesses increasingly rely on digital solutions to drive operations and work to elevate customer experiences to gain ...

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Ride Interconnection to Third Wave Cloud Adoption

Here comes the third wave of cloud and colocation adoption. It began forming when COVID-19 showed that being digital-first is literally sink-or-swim for almost every organization. ...

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Breaking Down Data Center Tier Level Classifications

How much downtime can your organization tolerate? Not all data centers are created equal—nor should they be. In a digital age, businesses increasingly rely on third-party data centers ...

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Securing Complex Hybrid Infrastructure, Don’t Forget the Basics

Seems like you rarely hear about firewalls these days. You remember – the 1990s cybersecurity technology developed when computer viruses were running rampant over that brand new ...

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In Constant Pursuit of Excellence

Back in the good old days of on-premises IT infrastructure, the life of IT professionals was much simpler. There were fewer systems to manage, applications to configure, and endpoints ...

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