For the methods for the solution of differential equations, see Collocation method. For the corpus linguistics notion, see Collocation.
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A colocation center (also spelled co-location, or shortened to colo) or "carrier hotel", is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities provide space, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking equipment of other firms and also connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers with a minimum of cost and complexity[clarification needed].
A colocation center (also spelled co-location, or shortened to colo) or "carrier hotel", is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth...
location Colocationcentre, a data center where companies can rent equipment, space, and bandwidth for computing services, known as colocation services...
before that Telecity), was a European carrier-neutral datacentre and colocationcentre provider. It specialised in the design, build and management of datacentre...
categories used to segment types of data centers are onsite data centers, colocation facilities, hyperscale data centers, and edge data centers. Data centers...
Icecast server where a high-bandwidth connection is available (e.g., a colocationcentre). Since version 2.4.0 source clients can use plain HTTP standard PUT...
to allow multiple logical servers to run on a single physical server Colocation facilities provide just the Internet connection, uninterruptible power...
act as the host(s) for the sites; servers may be physical or virtual colocation for the server(s), providing physical space, electricity, and Internet...
hydrogen bomb. The Pionen data center is also a colocationcentre. In 2010 WikiLeaks used Pionen's colocation services to store their servers.[citation needed]...
would have been maintained by the host Internet exchange point or colocationcentre, but these lists lacked important information such as peering policies...
can also be done privately by sharing the cost of running a server in a colocation center; this is called cooperative hosting. Shared web hosting can be...
Interxion is a provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe. Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands, the firm was publicly...
for the French École Nationale de la France d'Outre-Mer Short for colocationcentre Colo-Colo Colos (disambiguation) Colocolo (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
often providing redundant power sources and HVAC systems. In contrast to colocation, the server hardware is owned by the provider and in some cases they will...
multiple PoPs. PoPs are often located at Internet exchange points and colocationcentres. In the US, this term became important during the court-ordered breakup...
Pulsant is a digital edge infrastructure provider, specialising in cloud, colocation and connectivity services. Established in 1995 as EdNET, an ISP, the company...