Guides
Datacenter & colocation buyer guides
Vendor-neutral explainers for infrastructure buyers, from the team that verifies datacenter operators against network evidence. No sponsored placements — just how the decisions actually work.
What is a carrier-neutral data center?
Why a choice of carriers in one building means better latency, redundancy, and price.
Tier III vs Tier IV data centers explained
Concurrently maintainable vs fault tolerant — and why most buyers do not need Tier IV.
How to choose a colocation provider
A six-factor checklist and the questions to ask before you sign.
Internet exchange colocation, explained
What an IX is, peering vs transit, and why on-net exchange presence is a connectivity edge.
How to build a datacenter shortlist before your first vendor call
A practical process for procurement teams: build a defensible datacenter shortlist from public data before engaging vendors, so the first call is a qualification conversation rather than a discovery one.
Carrier diversity and certification signals in datacenter risk assessment
How to interpret carrier presence records and certification signals when assessing datacenter infrastructure risk for insurance underwriting, compliance, and vendor qualification.
Reading a datacenter facility record: what the public data actually tells you
A field-by-field guide to reading a datacenter facility record: which data points come from independent sources, which come from operator self-reporting, and what each actually tells a procurement buyer.
Sanctions risk in datacenter ownership chains: what acquirers miss
How sanctions exposure reaches datacenter acquisitions through subsidiary structures, beneficial ownership, and operator arrangements that standard diligence checklists routinely miss.
How to verify datacenter operators during acquisition due diligence
A practical framework for M&A teams: confirm operator identity against network evidence, trace ownership chains through corporate registries, and flag sanctions exposure before signing.
What underwriters look for when assessing datacenter infrastructure
The signals cyber and infrastructure underwriters use to evaluate datacenter risk: operator verification, certifications, carrier diversity, physical resilience, and ownership chain exposure.