I am often asked for recommendations for co-location facilities, and I always respond with “What is important to you in a co-lo?” and I have not gotten the same answer twice. So, I now put it out there, what are the Top 5 considerations when picking a new co-location? If I were to answer, I [...]

Google has provided a fantastic video tour of their container based computing solution. They do a fantastic job of showing the amount of infrastructure required to effectively run a datacenter in a container. They also outline the “best practices” that this facility and method use. As well as their PUE of 1.25 – which is [...]

Because of an ever-increasing demand for data center space, we’re seeing a lot of news about Data Center construction.  Some of these exciting new projects are huge corporate affairs, while others are more focused on hosting and colocation space.  It also looks like there’s strong interest in developing more and more green data center technology [...]