Frontier Spotlight: November’s Top Data Center Articles
Winter is coming, and the outlook for the data center industry is both cloudy and bright. Cloud computing continues to drive business growth and headlines, as reflected in the most popular stories at...
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Equinix Embraces the Power of SDN Across its Global Platform
Software continues to eat the world, and it’s about to take a bigger bite out of data center interconnection. Equinix will shift its entire global network to software-defined networking technology that...
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Applying Open Source Strategies to the Data Center
In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Kirk Offel, Executive Vice President of Platform Delivery at Aligned Energy, explores the open source strategies and the importance of vendors’ participation...
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Iceland’s Verne Global Launches HPC-as-a-Service
As the rise of cloud computing has boosted the fortunes of the hyperscale platforms, other service providers have sought to sharpen their focus on market niches. One example is Iceland-based data...
View ArticleROOT Data Center Will Use AI to Monitor its Generators
Artificial intelligence has moved to the front lines of data center uptime. ROOT Data Center announced today that it is teaming with LitBit to use artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor the emergency...
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Top 5 Tips for Creating Operation Critical Environment Excellence
This is the final entry in a four-part Data Center Frontier series that explores how managing data facilities for the critical environment is evolving. This series, compiled in a special report, also...
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Caveat Emptor: Let The Buyer Beware When Buying Renewable Energy
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Phillip Sandino, Vice President of Data Center Operations at RagingWire Data Centers, examines how data centers can improve their renewable energy usage. Phillip...
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How the Rise of AI is Shaping the Data Center Industry
Artificial intelligence has profound implications for society, and for the data centers that will power it. The rapid growth of AI is contributing to the building of new services, as well as enhancing...
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Iron Mountain Acquires IO Data Centers for $1.3 Billion
Iron Mountain continues its aggressive expansion into the data center industry, announcing today that it will acquire IO Data Centers in a $1.3 billion deal that adds four data centers to its growing...
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Data Center Sale-Leaseback Deals On the Rise, Expect More in 2018
The rise of the service provider and the decline of the enterprise data center are intersecting in the sale-leaseback, a real estate strategy that provides benefits for both parties. Industry...
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Facebook Unveils Major Data Center Campus Expansion in Prineville
In its ongoing super-sizing of its data center campuses, Facebook is going back to the beginning. Facebook will build two new data centers as it expands its campus in Prineville, Oregon, where the...
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A Vision for the Edge: Vapor IO Refines Network, Data Center Designs
As content and data move to the edge of the network, new infrastructure will be needed to manage it. This provides a greenfield opportunity to make the edge the new design frontier for networks and...
View ArticleData Center M&A Scorecard: The Deals That Are Shaping the Cloud
As 2017 draws to a close, it has been a landmark year for consolidation in the data center industry. The June 9 megamerger between Digital Realty and DuPont Fabros Technology is the largest in a flurry...
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2018 Data Center & Colocation Projections
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Mark W. Jobson, Director of Product Marketing for Iron Mountain’s data center business unit, discusses 2018 data center and colocation projections, and what the...
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The Year in Cloud: Amazon’s Growth Boosts Data Center Construction
The cloud continues to drive growth in the data center industry. That’s particularly true for Amazon Web Services, the global leader in cloud computing. The growth of AWS and its hyperscale cohorts was...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Edge From a Customer Perspective
One of the most popular concepts of 2017 has been edge computing. At DCF we’ve written a lot about edge from the service provider and network design perspective. But what do customers think about edge...
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CyrusOne Confirms Plans for 50MW Atlanta Data Center Campus
CyrusOne continues to add new data center capacity, and lots of it. This week the company confirmed that it will build a large data center campus near Atlanta, which is quickly becoming a major hub for...
View ArticleSabey Data Centers Set to Expand in Ashburn, Quincy
Sabey Data Centers plans to expand its data center campuses in Northern Virginia and Central Washington, and has arranged $250 million in financing to support construction. The company said its plans...
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The Year in Cloud: A Busy Year for Facebook Data Centers
When clicking through the most-read cloud stories on Data Center Frontier in 2017, you’ll find a steady stream of news relating to Facebook cloud and its data centers that support it. Below are five of...
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With Flurry of Deals, Iron Mountain Accelerates its Growth
Sometimes a plan comes together. That was the case for Iron Mountain in 2017, as the company expanded its data center presence by both buying and building space. The company started the year with three...
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