Popular economist and Freakonomics author Steven Levitt wrote “If the price of a good goes up, the companies that make it figure out how to make more of it.
To improve colo contract renewal outcomes, astute users should carefully create and execute a renewal plan, usually including several sequential phases.
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.
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?”
Skillfully negotiating colo contracts involves structuring both the business and delivery terms to meet your needs, but the final contract must capture those terms in clear, enforceable language.
At its most fundamental level, evaluating colocation proposals involves comparing providers’ responses against your organizational needs, as defined during the scoping process, and usually involves confirming four fundamental questions.
The RFP process combines distinct phases, including obtaining nondisclosure agreements, preparing the RFP document, distributing RFPs to the selected candidates, and answering questions about project requirements.
Users generally evaluate colo candidates on capacity, reliability, efficiency, telecom, risk avoidance, managed services, financial stability, expertise, costs, and a few other attributes.