colocating

Housing in proximity

Colocating is placing things or people in the same location.

In business, companies colocate teams to improve collaboration: We're colocating the design and engineering departments on the third floor.

In computing, colocating means housing servers in a shared data center rather than on-site.

The practice emphasizes physical proximity for practical benefit.

computing

server

One who attends tables

rack · facility · equipment · hardware · networking · cloud · virtualization · redundancy · uptime · bandwidth

spatial

proximity

Nearness in space

placing · situating · neighboring · locating · arranging · siting · clustering · grouping · juxtaposing · stationing

workplace

coworking

Shared professional space rental

colleagues · teams · flexible seating · open plan · desk sharing · office layout · collaboration · in-person · headquarters · workplace

research

correlation

Statistical relationship measure

data points · analysis · mapping · distribution · clustering · GIS · phenomena · observations · samples · geographic

Opposites
spatial arrangement

colocatingseparating

Dividing into parts

dispersing · scattering · distributing · distancing · spacing out

organizational strategy

colocatingdecentralizing

Dispersing authority from one point

distributing · dispersing · offshoring · outsourcing · fragmenting

Family

colocation

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