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Greater New York Market Sees New Players, Pockets of Strength
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ll soon be publishing an in-depth market report with additional details on the New York/New Jersey market. Be sure you’ll be notified when it’s available by subscribing to the DCF...
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Aligned Scales Up its Executive Team and Data Centers
Jakob Carnemark has a big vision for the future of the data center industry. The founder of Aligned Energy thinks a lot about scale, and how data centers can be built bigger and faster. In recent...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Challenge – Data Center Build or Buy
As we look at all the trends around cloud, digitization, and technology utilization – it becomes very clear as to why we continue to see more demands around the data center. Recent reports from Jones...
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Key DCIM Functionality Considerations
This is the second entry in a Data Center Frontier series that explores the ins and outs of data infrastructure management, and how to tell whether your company should adopt a DCIM system. This series,...
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5 Key Considerations for Airflow Containment Design
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Ward Patton, Critical Environment Specialist at Simplex Isolation Systems, unpacks five key considerations for airflow containment design. Data center...
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Digital Realty to Acquire DuPont Fabros in Blockbuster Deal
It’s a marriage made in the cloud. Digital Realty will acquire one of its oldest and largest rivals, DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT), in a blockbuster $7.6 billion transaction that will boost its...
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Zone Defense in the Cloud: Why Digital Realty Bought DFT
Digital Realty and DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) have gone head-to-head in the data center business for years. They have similar business models, and target many of the same geographic markets and...
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Why Continually Evaluating and Updating Your Data Center Security Strategy is...
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, David Mettler, Vice President of Sales and the Market Director for the US at IO, explains why continually evaluating and updating your data center security...
View ArticleData Center M&A Scorecard: The Deals That Are Shaping the Cloud
We’re not even halfway through 2017, and it’s already shaping up as a landmark year for consolidation in the data center industry. The June 9 megamerger between Digital Realty and DuPont Fabros...
View ArticleEast Meets West: Peak 10 Acquires ViaWest for $1.7 Billion
The merger mania in the data center industry continued today as Peak 10 acquired ViaWest from parent company Shaw Communications in a $1.675 billion all-cash transaction. The deal brings together two...
View ArticleHow Lithium Ion Batteries are Impacting Your Data Center
There’s a constant evolution happening within the data center. Cool, space, and bandwidth requirements are changing to support evolving use-cases and a digital economy. And, with these changes – power...
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DCIM System Implementation and Training
This is the third entry in a Data Center Frontier series that explores the ins and outs of data infrastructure management, and how to tell whether your company should adopt a DCIM system. This series,...
View ArticleSwitch Expands Again, Boosting Las Vegas Campus to 2 Million SF
One of the world’s largest cloud campuses is getting even bigger. Switch has just opened Las Vegas 10, the newest data center on its Core Campus (SUPERNAP) campus. The new facility supports 350,000...
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Built to Show: RagingWire’s Visual Data Center
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – At first, it looks like any other hallway. But as you step onto a glass-enclosed catwalk, your entire field of view is filled with Internet infrastructure. Glance in either...
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Colocation and Hosting Providers Push Enterprise Data Center Ops. Forward
In this week’s Voices of the Industry column, Dan Draper, Director of Data Center Programs for Vertiv, shares the story of how colocation and hosting providers have pushed traditional enterprise data...
View ArticleFlexibility Creates Opportunity for Ascent Data Center Business
What’s your data center business model? Wholesale? Build to suit? Multi-tenant? Powered shell? For Ascent Corp., the answer is “all of the above.” The St. Louis-based company has been building and...
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DCIM: Moving Beyond the Physical Aspects of the Data Center
This is the fourth and final entry in a Data Center Frontier series that explores the ins and outs of data infrastructure management, and how to tell whether your company should adopt a DCIM system....
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Vapor IO Teams With Tower Titan on Edge Data Center Network
In one of the most ambitious efforts yet at building data infrastructure for edge computing, startup Vapor IO will team with Crown Castle to deploy a distributed network of small data centers at the...
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When and Where to Look For Automation Opportunities in the Data Center
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Jeff Klaus, GM of Data Center Software Solutions at Intel DCM, explores where to look for automation opportunities in the data center. The promise of automation...
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Startups Foresee Future Where AI, Robots Manage Data Centers
SAN FRANCISCO – Can artificial intelligence and robots help manage the data centers of the future? Several data center companies are working to take automation to the next level, leveraging machine...
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