What Do Startups Need in a Colocation Provider?
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Josh Moody, FORTRUST’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, discusses what startups need in a Colocation provider. Josh Moody, SVP Sales FORTRUST One of...
View ArticleReport: Digital Realty Expanding in Chicago Suburbs
Digital Realty is expanding its presence in the suburban Chicago market. The company has acquired a former Motorola headquarters building next to its existing data center campus in West Franklin Park,...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Build-to-Suit Cloud Data Center
Cloud computing is changing data center development, with action now shifting to a build-to-suit model in which cloud builders pre-lease entire buildings for themselves, representing 12 megawatts or...
View ArticleHow The Nervana Deal Boosts Intel’s Machine Learning Chops
This week Intel expanded its machine learning arsenal with the acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Nervana. The deal provides Intel with new software and hardware technologies as it seeks to...
View ArticleCoreSite Expands Reston Data Center in Northern Virginia
CoreSite Realty will pay $60 million to buy the Sunrise Technology Park in Reston, Virginia, which the company will redevelop as a data center campus. The acquisition will provide CoreSite with space...
View ArticleData Center Design Best Practices: Creating Efficiency Beyond Power and Cooling
The modern data center is an absolutely critical piece of today’s business. In fact, entire business capabilities are built around the capabilities of IT. We’re seeing major shifts in infrastructure...
View ArticleEliminate IT Expansion Risk and Uncertainty with Hyper-Scale Data Centers
Today’s pace of business and IT evolution is staggering. Organizations are investing their budgets into highly scalable data center and technology solutions which can help them keep up with market...
View ArticleSentinel Signs Anchor Tenant for New Phase at NC Data Center
Sentinel Data Centers announced today it has pre-leased 25 percent of its 100,000 square foot, 10 megawatt Phase II expansion at its Durham data center in North Carolina. The announcement continues a...
View ArticleFree Cooling & Beyond – Data Center Efficiency at the Edge
In this week’s Voices of the Industry Earl Keisling, co-founder and CEO of Inertech LLC, the data center infrastructure technology division of Aligned Energy, discusses Data Center Efficiency at the...
View ArticleLithium-Ion UPS Systems Come to the Data Center
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. – Inside its data center here in the western suburbs of Chicago, Forsythe Data Centers hopes to start a revolution in keeping IT equipment online. In an equipment galley, a...
View ArticleData Center Security: An Integrative Approach to Achieving Holistic Security
Download this white paper on data center security Working with modern cloud and data center technologies isn’t always an easy task. Today, we’re seeing a boom in cloud adoption and data center...
View ArticleMapping Netflix: Content Delivery Network Spans 233 Sites
Netflix is renowned for its use of the Amazon Web Services cloud to support its bandwidth-intensive video service. But the company also has plenty of hardware, operating a content delivery network...
View ArticleReader Survey: Help Us Improve Data Center Frontier
We appreciate our readers, and how you’ve supported our mission of exploring the future of the data center industry. Today I’d like to ask you to take a moment to share your insights and opinions to...
View ArticleIntel DCM: Whereby Dog Food Becomes a Home-Cooked Meal
In this week’s Voice of the Industry, Jeff Klaus, Intel’s GM of Data Center Solutions benefits of ‘dogfooding,’ and how it is often the best method to improve a product’s quality and usability. JEFF...
View ArticleT5 Expands Into Chicago, Acquires Forsythe Facility
The action continues in the Chicago market, where T5 Data Centers has acquired a large facility in Elk Grove Village from Forsythe Data Centers, which will continue in place as the anchor tenant. The...
View ArticleGreen House Data Builds A National Footprint
Wyoming might seem an unusual place to launch a national data center network. Yet it’s been a gateway to larger ambitions for Green House Data, a data center and cloud services specialist that has...
View ArticleWill the “real” Hybrid Cloud please step forward?
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Andrew Schaap, Senior Vice President of Sales, Digital Realty, discusses the “real” Hybrid cloud. The biologist’s definition of a hybrid: “The offspring of two...
View ArticleNew Data Centers Position Suburban Chicago for Cloud Growth
The Suburban Chicago data center market is seeing an influx of new providers and supply, which positions the region for growth in the accelerating arms race to deploy IT capacity for cloud computing....
View ArticleHow Colocation Supports Cost Savings
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Josh Moody, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at FORTRUST, discusses how colocation supports cost savings. As more businesses invest in colocation...
View ArticleHuge Cloud Expansion Underway in Amazon US East
ASHBURN, Va. – Amazon Web Services is aggressively adding data centers in Northern Virginia to boost capacity for its Amazon US East region, the company’s largest cluster of cloud computing server...
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