The technology industry is littered with buzz-words. "Digitization," "Cloud," and "IoT" appear to be at the tip of many IT professionals (and executives) these days. Yet each of the preceding buzzwords are technologically enabled by yet another buzzword: "Edge Computing."

This article is meant to provide a brief explanation of how we define "Edge Computing," but more importantly to discuss and review the physical implications of the Edge, as well as potential pitfalls to avoid.

Operating in colocation data centers is not a "new" concept by any means. Colo services have been viable options for companies for more than a decade. What is new is the rate of acceleration organizations are moving their production and data redundancy (DR) to colo.

While moving to colo is common-practice for many, it hasn't been so for some until recently, and they're now seeing these services as viable options for their businesses for the first time. It is important that these newcomers recognize not only the biggest but also the most common operational mistakes IT organizations make when moving their IT environments into colocation.