Big Sur: A Closer Look at the Engine Powering Facebook’s AI
PRINEVILLE, Ore. – In a row of racks deep inside a massive data center sits the engine of Facebook’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. Each server chassis is packed with computing horsepower,...
View ArticleBuilding A Better Workforce By Investing In Your Employees
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Tracy Brown, Switch’s Vice President of Talent Development, discusses the unique education partnerships and workforce training initiatives that helps build elite...
View ArticleBuilding the Phone Rack for Facebook’s Mobile Lab
PRINEVILLE, Ore. – The call may have gone something like this: HQ: “Hey, we need you guys to build a custom cabinet for us.” Data Center: “OK. What kind of hardware will run inside this cabinet?” HQ:...
View ArticleExecutive Roundtable: Cloud Growth Drives Wholesale Demand
Welcome to our fourth Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In our Second...
View ArticleEmerging Power Architectures: New Alternatives for Today’s Data Center
In this week’s Voices of Industry, Peter Panfil, VP Global Power, Emerson Network Power, discusses data center transformation: The impact of emerging power architectures on today’s data centers. VP...
View ArticleRoundtable: Making Renewable Energy Work for Data Centers
Today we continue our Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In today’s...
View ArticleHow to Design HPC Solutions in High Density Data Centers
Computers are the engines that drive the discoveries that truly impact all of our lives. The massive compute power they provide allows leading research institutions in government, academia, and...
View ArticleNetrality Acquires St. Louis Properties from Digital Realty
Netrality Properties continues to build its national network of carrier hotels, acquiring two Internet gateway properties in St. Louis from Digital Realty. Netrality is buying 400,000 square foot 210...
View ArticleSeeking the Next Frontier in Data Center Energy Efficiency
Today we continue our Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In today’s...
View ArticleIoT, Virtual Reality Will Create More Data, More Demand
Today we continue our Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In today’s...
View ArticleCloud Central: Iowa’s Data Center Cluster Keeps Growing
You don’t hear the “server farm” jokes much anymore. Nine years after its first major data center project was announced, Iowa has attracted one of the world’s largest clusters of hyperscale data...
View ArticleQTS Realty Brings its Mega-Scale Model to Chicago
CHICAGO – QTS Realty has become the master of the Internet-scale retrofit, finding former industrial facilities with sturdy infrastructure and transforming them into massive data centers. This month...
View ArticleThe Case for Three Phase PDUs
In this week’s Voices of the Industry Luca Rozzoni, Senior Product Manager for Europe – Chatsworth Products explains the importance of the three phase PDU for hyper scale data centers. Luca Rozzoni,...
View ArticleLincoln Rackhouse Steps Up Data Center Acquisitions
Lincoln Rackhouse has acquired two data centers in Northern Virginia from Netrality Properties, entering one of the industry’s most active markets. The deal is part of a larger effort by Lincoln...
View ArticleKyotoCooling Gains Traction With Service Providers
CHICAGO – After years of slow but steady adoption, KyotoCooling technology has gained significant traction with data center service providers. Over the past year, the cooling solution has been...
View ArticleWhat It Means to Be a Sustainable Data Center
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Adil Attlassy, Chief Development Officer, IO, discusses what it means to be a sustainable data center. Pursuing sustainable data center strategies sometimes...
View ArticleFrom Cloud to Colo: Groupon’s Data Center Journey
NEW YORK – In the startup world, there are many accounts of companies running their servers in the cloud. But once those startups start to reach Internet scale, the story shifts, along with the...
View ArticleChicago: A Tale of Two Data Center Markets
This week we begin a series of stories on the leading geographic markets for data center space. Data Center Frontier is partnering with DatacenterHawk to provide in-depth market reports on each city we...
View ArticleWith New CEO and Funding, Central Colo Looks to Expand
As Ken Parent surveys the opportunities for Central Colo in the Silicon Valley data center market, he likes what he sees. “Silicon Valley is an attractive market if you have supply,” said Parent, the...
View ArticleVantage Plans Major New Data Center Campus in Santa Clara
Santa Clara is the data center capital of Silicon Valley. But it’s running out of places to put them. As the supply of undeveloped land in Santa Clara dwindles, Vantage Data Centers is moving to secure...
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