Colocation Checklist
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This checklist will help make sure you ask the important questions that will affect your colocation services and your eventual purchase decisions.
How do you determine the right colocation for your business? Colocation can offer many cost-efficient benefits, including scalability, improved business continuity, security and compliance.
In recent years, colocation services have progressed far beyond space and power. Today's advanced facilities are more energy-efficient and offer higher power densities, hybridization options and colo-to-cloud connectivity. Emerging industries that require connectivity between data centers, and between customers with data centers, have given rise to new colocation ecosystems with interconnection capabilities.
As you evaluate colocation providers and tour data centers, this checklist will help make sure you ask the important questions that will affect your colocation services and your eventual purchase decisions.
For more information, download the full Colocation: The 2016 Essential Buyer's Guide from Internap.
The attached zip file includes:
- Intro Page.pdf
- Terms and Conditions.pdf
- 2016_Colocation_Buyers_Guide-Checklist.pdf
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