Using What-If Analysis to Address Data Center Capacity Demand
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Herman Chan, President of Sunbird Software, discusses the challenges of capacity demand and planning for dynamic IT architectures and why what-if analysis is a...
View ArticleHow Houston’s Data Centers Weathered the Storm
Data center professionals live with risk every day. They brainstorm ways to keep their facilities online during any kind of disaster. They seek to engineer solutions for every imaginable threat. But...
View ArticleWhich Matters More in a Colocation Provider: Capacity or Efficiency?
In this week’s Voices of The Industry, David Mettler, vice president of sales and market director for the United States, IO Data Centers, explores how finding the right colocation provider can help you...
View ArticleHow Hyperscale Will Disrupt the Data Center Market
This is the first of three entries in a Data Center Frontier series that explores how hyperscale will disrupt the data center market. This series, compiled in a complete Guide, also covers selecting...
View ArticleUsing Servers to Heat Homes: Facebook Embraces Heat Recycling
Servers generate lots of heat, and a growing number of data centers are using this heat to warm nearby homes. The latest company to embrace this strategy is Facebook, which announced Monday that its...
View ArticleDataBank Plans Network of Micro Data Centers at Cell Towers
Communication towers are emerging as the new frontier in edge computing, a trend that is boosting collaboration between data center companies and tower real estate specialists. Almost no one is better...
View ArticleA Look at the Data Center of the Future
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, David Wood, Director of Power Business at Raritan, a brand of Legrand, explores the elements of the data center of the future. David Wood, Director of Power...
View ArticleSupercomputing Moves to the Edge With AI-Guided Drones
Picture this: A supercomputer in a van, using artificial intelligence to create flight paths for drones collecting high-definition images of critical infrastructure. It’s not science fiction, but the...
View ArticleCentral Colo Becomes Element Critical, Eyes More Deals
The ongoing wave of data center acquisitions is enabling the industry’s big players to get even bigger. Ken Parent believes this trend creates opportunities for smaller providers. “The choices are...
View ArticleSelecting the Right Hyperscale Partner
This is the second of three entries in a Data Center Frontier series that explores how hyperscale will disrupt the data center market. This series, compiled in a complete Guide, also covers...
View ArticleColovore Pre-Leases New Phase of Water-Cooled Data Center
In a sign of strengthening demand for water-cooled racks, high-density hosting specialist Colovore has fully pre-leased a 2 megawatt expansion phase of its data center in Santa Clara, Calif., the...
View ArticleIreland Emerges as Champion in Data Center Facilities
In this weeks Voices of the Industry, Marcus Doran, VP and General Manager, Rahi Systems Europe, explains how Ireland has emerged as a champion in data center facilities. Marcus Doran, VP and General...
View ArticleDigital Realty Readies Massive Expansion in Ashburn
ASHBURN, Va. – There’s a new colossus rising along Loudoun County Parkway. The massive data center is the first building on Digital Realty’s new expansion campus in Northern Virginia’s “Data Center...
View ArticleIndustrial Internet of Things and the Data Center
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Shay Demmons, EVP and General Manager of the RunSmart software division at BASELAYER, explains the ins and outs of the Industrial Internet of Things and its...
View ArticleIron Mountain Steps Up Its Data Center Ambitions
MANASSAS, Va. – As you arrive at the newest data center in Northern Virginia, it’s hard to miss the name of the facility operator. Iron Mountain’s name is emblazoned on the front of the building, a...
View ArticleElements of a Hyperscale Data Center
This is the final of three entries in a Data Center Frontier series that explores how hyperscale will disrupt the data center market. This series, compiled in a complete Guide, also covers...
View ArticleUnderstanding Today’s Data Center High Speed Migration Environment
Anyone who has been in the data center business long enough knows that speed is everything, especially in a high speed migration environment. But according to CommScope, the key to keeping things...
View ArticlePacketFabric Grows as SDN Simplifies Data Center Networking
The way William Charnock sees it, the rise of cloud computing changed the way customers thought about IT infrastructure. By allowing users to quickly provision compute capacity through an online...
View ArticleHow to Get the Most Out of Data Center Conferences
I’ve been in the IT industry for well over a decade, and over those years, I’ve attended a lot of conferences. As an industry analyst, architect, and now CTO at mid-sized consulting firm, I get the...
View ArticleEvocative Relaunches, Builds Data Center Footprint on West Coast
Arman Khalili has spent much of his career building data center businesses on the West Coast. Khalili has begun a new chapter in that journey with the relaunch of Evocative, an established colocation...
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