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While quality of service, reliability and offering a full menu of services are all important factors when selecting a colocation provider, there’s no getting around the fact that at some level cost matters. It only makes sense, then, for colo’s to try to keep their own costs down, in part by using various data center efficiency technologies. As it turns out, customers are receptive to colocation providers that use technologies such as data center infrastructure management ( DCIM ), fresh-air cooling, prefabricated data center modules and more. This fact came through clearly from a recent 451 Research survey of some 450 decision-makers responsible for selecting colocation services, which aimed to shed light on factors that are driving colocation demand. DCIM as the most popular efficiency technology. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (65%) said they’d be more likely to use a provider that used DCIM to monitor its facility while only 16% said DCIM would make them less willing to go wit...