Colocation

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• For the business term, see colocation (business).
• For collocation methods for the solution of differential equations, see collocation method.
• In computing:
  • The provision of space, bandwidth, and power in a data center, with the customer required to provide and manage the computing hardware. Data centers that provide this service are called colocation centers. Many data centers also offer managed service solutions to help clients with their colocation server management.
  • In computing, it refers to installing or running data or applications in a single process, store, computer or data center. Virtualization is an example of colocation where a host server provides a virtual hardware or software platform for running one or more instances of software on a (potentially different) platform. Web Hosting is an example of colocation where a host server provides a portal to content along with potentially thousands of other portals on the same equipment.
• For the corpus linguistics notion, see collocation.

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