Regional Data Center Clusters Power Amazon’s Cloud
See Part One of our series, Inside Amazon’s Cloud Computing Infrastructure. Amazon has one of the largest cloud infrastructures, and it’s getting bigger quickly. To keep pace with its rapid growth,...
View ArticleInside Facebook’s Data Center Infrastructure
What happens inside Facebook’s data centers? It’s a question many ask when Facebook suffers an outage, as it did Monday evening. While we wait to hear what’s behind these challenges, learn more about...
View ArticleUsing New Tools and Technologies to Enhance Data Center Efficiency
Today’s data centers are an evolving ecosystem that’s supporting new types of workloads and users. The important piece to understand is that there are new kinds of demands being placed around resource...
View ArticleWhat the European Safe Harbor Ruling Means for Data Centers
A court ruling striking down rules for data transfer between the U.S. and Europe will create short-term uncertainty for data center service providers, but isn’t likely to “wreak havoc on global digital...
View ArticleHow Floods in Thailand Made AWS Rethink Its Supply Chain
If it rains enough in Thailand, cloud storage could run dry. That’s why Amazon Web Services now looks differently at the supply chain for its massive data center operation, according to VP of...
View ArticleThe Local Frontier: Data Centers Coming to a City Near You
The data center industry is coming to Dubuque. And Dayton and Shakopee and Laconia and dozens of other places that you may not think of as technology hubs. There are more wired businesses than ever in...
View ArticleWhy Your Data Center Must Evolve
The modern data center has changed far beyond the standard physical server. Now, many organizations are working with advanced networking components, new cloud computing platforms, site-to-site...
View ArticleThe Power of Connection: Digital Realty and Telx
This edition of Voices in the Industry features Bill Stein, the Chief Executive Officer of Digital Realty Trust. Stein has been with the company since its inception, serving as Chief Investment Officer...
View ArticleDigital Realty: The Connected Campus Will Be Our Growth Engine
The cloud covets connectivity. That’s why Digital Realty is happy to talk SMACC about its data centers. SMACC is an acronym for “Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud & Content,” and it’s the market...
View ArticleThe NIMBY Challenge: A Way Forward for the Data Center Industry
People want their Internet, and they want it all the time, wherever they are. And they want it fast, with no buffering on those videos! But that love of the Internet doesn’t always extend to the...
View ArticleTop 4 Things to Look for in an Evolved Data Center
In this week’s edition of Voices of the Industry, Tom Doherty, Chief Operating Officer at Aligned Data Centers explains four key features of the evolved data center. Tom Doherty, COO, Aligned Data...
View ArticleHow to Calculate Data Center Downtime
In this week’s edition of Voices of the Industry, Robert McClary, SVP and General Manager of FORTRUST explains how a range of variables can contribute to the cost of data center downtime, and the...
View ArticleData Centers on the Edge: Streaming and IoT Reshape the Network
You hate it when your Netflix movies are buffering. So does Netflix, and its rivals in the streaming video business. But it’s a hard problem to eradicate. A global survey of 50 billion streaming...
View ArticleRevolutionizing your Data Center through DCIM and True Visibility
Your data center is a critical component around your entire business. You have entire business strategies now tied to the capabilities of your IT ecosystem. With that in mind – what are you doing to...
View ArticleImmersion Cooling At Scale: BitFury Pushes Density to 250kW Per Rack
Immersion cooling is having a bit of a breakout moment. Bitcoin specialist BitFury will use liquid cooling technology from 3M to build a 40 megawatt facility that will feature power densities of 250kW...
View ArticleRight-Sizing for the Edge: Data Center Design in Secondary Markets
For data center providers, success in second-tier markets requires building in the right place, and at the right size. Matching the size of the data center to the level of demand is one of the oldest...
View ArticleA Quiet Revolution in Wholesale Colocation
In this week’s edition of Voices of the Industry, William Dougherty, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at RagingWire Data Centers addresses how the wholesale colocation market is...
View ArticleRed Hot in NoVa: Burst of Leasing, New Construction in Ashburn
The biggest player in the biggest data center market has announced its biggest expansion yet. Digital Realty plans to build up to 2 million square feet of new space in the heart of “Data Center Alley”...
View ArticleHow Cloud and Your Data Center Have Joined Forces
Your data center is a critical piece in your overall business process. In fact, the two are directly tied together. Business and IT are no longer separate silos. Your application is your business, and...
View ArticleAligned Data Centers Seeks to Solve the Capacity Challenge
DANBURY, Ct. – Aligned Data Centers is building a different kind of data center company, focusing on a particular problem – the cost of capacity for future growth. It is approaching this problem on...
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