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Douglas Adams Named CEO at RagingWire
Veteran data center executive Douglas Adams has been named chief executive officer of RagingWire, the company said Wednesday. Adams, who had been serving as President, succeeds RagingWire founder...
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The Cloud Becomes A Major Force in Green Energy
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The data center industry has emerged as a leading player in the market for renewable energy, as cloud computing platforms shift to solar and wind power their servers. In 2016, data...
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Data Center Managers Set Their Sights on 2017
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Jeff Klauss, General Manager of Data Center Software Solutions at Intel, covers New Year’s resolutions for data center managers and operators and what should be...
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Vantage Commences Four-Story Santa Clara Data Center
Vantage Data Centers is doing double duty to address the limited supply of data center space in Santa Clara, the primary data hub in Silicon Valley. The company is commencing construction this week on...
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Colo Customers Organize to Seek Greener Power
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – If you operate a huge cloud campus, you have lots of options to procure renewable energy to support your data centers. If you’re a customer in a colocation facility, your choices...
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Are You a Data Center Innovator or a Farmer?
In this this edition of “Voices of the Industry,” Gary Wojtaszek, President and CEO of CyrusOne, explains the benefits of the build-to-suit data center and being a data center innovator. Why...
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ScaleMatrix Builds Niche in HPC for Genomics, AI
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – A short walk around the ScaleMatrix campus provides a glimpse into the full spectrum of possibilities in genomics and life science. Within the ScaleMatrix data center, high-density...
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More Storage: Facebook Retools Design to Boost Disk Density
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – When Facebook updates its storage hardware, the design goal is always “more.” That’s the case with Bryce Canyon, the new storage unit unveiled today at the 2017 Open Compute...
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With Big Basin, Facebook Beefs Up its AI Hardware
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Facebook is beefing up its high performance computing horsepower, enhancing its use of artificial intelligence to personalize your news feed. Facebook introduced brawny new...
View ArticleSwitch Pyramid Data Center Kicks Off Grand Rapids Campus
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Switch continues to expand the geographic footprint of its huge data centers, announcing today that it has opened its new cloud campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The new campus is...
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Overcoming Data Center Migration Challenges with a Staged Approach
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, David Mettler, IO Data Centers vice president of sales and market director for the United States, discusses how best to overcome data center migration challenges...
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Microsoft Boosts Hopes That ARM Servers Can Power The Cloud
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Has the big moment finally arrived for ARM servers? Microsoft has given a major boost to the nascent market for servers powered by low-energy processors from ARM, which are widely...
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Greener Terawatts: Google, Microsoft Seek Renewable Cloud
Google used 5.7 Terawatt hours of energy in 2015, according to Joe Kava, who heads the company’s global infrastructure “Data centers make up the vast majority of that,” said Kava, which is why Google...
View ArticleDigital Realty Expands Connected Colo Footprint in Atlanta
Digital Realty is building on its Connected Campus strategy in Atlanta, where it is adding 18,000 square feet of raised-floor colocation space in 250 Williams, a multi-tenant data center facility in...
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Northern Virginia: America’s Largest Data Center Market
We continue our 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...
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To Compete With AWS, Oracle Will Need More Data Centers
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison isn’t afraid to stir up controversy. With robust cloud growth turbo-charging Oracle’s earnings this week, Ellison was in the mood to skewer his cloud rivals. “Right now we...
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The Network’s Role in an Adaptive Data Center
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Rajendran Avadaiappan, Chief Information Officer at Aligned Data Centers, explains the role and responsibilities of the network in an adaptive data center. My...
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Microsoft, NVIDIA Roll Out Cloud AI Hardware
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The leading hyperscale data center players continue to roll out new hardware designs to power machine learning applications. At the recent Open Compute Summit, Microsoft and...
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The Switch of the Future? Silicon Photonics in Action
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The rising tide of data moving through cloud data centers is boosting interest in next-generation networking technologies like silicon photonics. One of the leading advocates of...
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Futurist: New Tech Will Drive Enormous Demand for Data Centers
SANTA CLARA. Calif. – Everywhere Steve Brown looks, he sees new technologies transforming our world. Brown envisions a future in which artificial intelligence, virtual reality, voice assistants,...
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