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The Evolution of Edge Computing: A Look at the Road Ahead
Where exactly is the edge? It turns out that edge computing is evolving in tiers, with opportunities in regional data hubs, small cities at telecom towers and on devices. Think of it in terms of “edge,...
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Peak 10 Becomes Flexential, Eyes Major Markets
Peak 10 has become Flexential, adopting a new name and brand following its $1.7 billion acquisition of ViaWest. After a period of operating as Peak 10 + ViaWest, CEO Chris Downie says the rebranding...
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Overview: High-Density Cooling for Data Centers
New technologies in the data center, such as rise of artificial intelligence and the GPU computing hardware that often supports it, are boosting the development of new strategies and designs for...
View ArticleCompass Wins Approval for Northern Virginia Data Center Campus
The world’s largest data center market is about to get another new player. Compass Datacenters has received approval from Loudoun County for the company’s first data center campus in Northern Virginia,...
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SDN: Defining the Next Generation of Business Leaders
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Chris Sharp, CTO, Digital Realty, explores how leveraging the power of software-defined SDN can help you build next-generation networks and ramp up your hybrid...
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Oracle Cloud Adds On-Ramps Across Digital Realty Data Hubs
Customers in many Digital Realty data centers will have faster to the Oracle Cloud through direct network connections, the companies said today. The partnership provides Oracle’s cloud offerings with...
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Vantage: We’ve Nearly Filled Our New Santa Clara Data Center
Data center leasing is bouncing back in Silicon Valley. After an extended period of limited data center supply, new construction is bringing more space online in Santa Clara, and customers are quickly...
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Equinix CEO Resigns, Citing ‘Poor Judgment’ With Employee Matter
Equinix CEO Steve Smith has resigned suddenly after “exercising poor judgment with respect to an employee matter,” the company said today. The Equinix board said it accepted Smith’s resignation “in the...
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Energized In Texas: Skybox Targets Dallas, Adds Colo Services
PLANO, Texas – Sometimes a penny saved is only a penny. When it’s a penny on the rate your data center pays on its energy bill, it can add up to millions of dollars. Skybox Datacenters is focused on...
View ArticleGDS Deal May Help CyrusOne Build Data Centers Faster
CyrusOne’s ability to build data centers fast has helped the developer win a series of major deals with cloud providers. The company’s focus on lean construction and pre-fabricated components allows it...
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Data Center Leasing in Northern Virginia Hits Record 115 MW in 2017
ASHBURN, Va. – Developers in Northern Virginia leased a record 115 megawatts of data center space in 2017, topping the 113 megawatts (MWs) absorbed in 2017, according to a new report. The robust...
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Frontier Spotlight: The Top Data Center Stories for January 2018
January was a time to look ahead to see what trends would impact the data center industry in 2018. That’s why two of January’s most popular data center articles on Data Center Frontier dealt directly...
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Startup Ampere Enters Market for Low-Power ARM Cloud Servers
There’s a new startup in the emerging market for servers powered by low-energy processors from ARM, which are widely used in mobile devices like iPhones and iPads. Ampere is a new company developing...
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New Year, New Outlook – What Does 2018 Hold for the Data Center?
In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Jeff Klaus, GM of Intel Data Center Management Solutions, explores how 2018 will shape out for the data center and colocation industry. Jeff Klaus, GM of...
View ArticleThe Power of Hybrid: 5 Reasons to Connect your Data Center
It’s 2018, and working with hybrid cloud solutions has never been more popular. Organizations across the board are looking for ways to become more efficient, increase capabilities around scale, and...
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Compass Extends its Reach From the Edge to the Cloud
The data center network of the future will extend from the edge to the cloud. Chris Crosby, the CEO of Compass Datacenters, wants to create a data center company that can deliver seamless...
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Switch Plans 1 Gigawatt Solar Energy Project in Nevada
Data center technology company Switch will help create a 1 gigawatt solar energy project in Nevada, which will be the largest solar array in the United States, the company said today. The huge project...
View ArticleGoing Greenfield: QTS Ashburn Project Reflects Growing Focus on Hyperscale
ASHBURN, Va. – It seems there’s always a data center rising over an open field in Data Center Alley. But the new QTS Data Centers facility is rising higher than most. It will be the first three-story...
View ArticleCloser Look: RagingWire’s New Ashburn Data Center Campus
ASHBURN, Va. – Data Center Frontier recently had a look inside the new RagingWire Data Centers campus in Ashburn in Loudoun County, where the company plans to build seven data centers. Jim Leach, VP of...
View ArticleCBRE Partners With LitBit to Use AI to Manage Data Centers
The effort to bring artificial intelligence into the data center received a significant boost this week when CBRE Data Centre Solutions said it would use AI technology from LitBit to automate the...
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