Data Center Developers: Meeting the Challenges of Today’s Requirements
In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Chris Kincaid, Senior Vice President of Design & Construction at Stream Data Centers, explores some of the biggest design and construction challenges for...
View ArticleEdgeCore Launches, Plans $2 Billion in Data Center Development
The data center industry has a new player with deep pockets and an experienced management team. EdgeCore Internet Real Estate launched today, and outlined ambitious plans to build large data center...
View ArticleProtecting Your Organization From Cybercrime
Protection from cybercrime and attacks is top of mind for many executives these days. In fact, according to the United States Department of Justice, cybercrime is one of the greatest threats facing...
View ArticleThe Equinix Infomart: What It Means for the Data Center Industry
The lines between data center business models have been blurring for years, but they still matter to acquirers and investors. The alignment of facilities and business models looms large in this week’s...
View ArticleVantage Lines Up $1.1 Billion to Build More Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has lined up more than $1.125 billion in financing, which it will use to build new data centers as it continues its national expansion. The money was raised using securitization...
View ArticleUL Introduces Safety Certifications for Data Centers
UL certification is coming to the data center. UL, the international safety consulting company, is now offering UL 3223, a comprehensive certification program that looks at all aspects of performance...
View ArticleQTS Restructures to Focus on Hyperscale, Cloud On-Ramps
Over the past year, we have tracked the evolution of QTS Data Centers and its emerging focus on the market for hyperscale data centers. The first step was the development of the Hyperblock, a...
View ArticleData Center Jobs in Focus: Pkaza Powers Job Listings at DCF
Data Center Frontier has partnered with Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting as the source for our new Data Center Jobs Board, which provides access to hundreds of quality job listings for data center...
View ArticleThe Emerging Contender for Cloud Supremacy
In this week’s Voices of the Industry column, Danielle Hagel, Senior Manager of CoreSite’s customer engagement program, explores who’s in line for cloud supremacy in the market, as well as growing...
View ArticleWith Focus on Future-Proofing, Aligned Expands in Phoenix
We’re in the midst of a digital transformation of the global economy. Technologies like artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, augmented reality and blockchain are gaining traction....
View ArticleCloud Meets Compliance: Paths to Cloud for Specialized Verticals
Many organizations have looked to cloud and colocation to push some of their most critical workloads outside of their own data centers. Now even workloads bound by compliance regulations can find a...
View ArticleBuilding Downtown: CoreSite Sees Opportunity in Chicago
CHICAGO – CoreSite is experiencing all aspects of the data center development journey as it builds out its data center infrastructure in downtown Chicago. The colocation specialist has spent the last...
View ArticlePrince William Considers Tax Hike on Data Center Equipment
Officials in Prince William County in Northern Virginia are considering a tax hike that could triple the rate that data centers pay on computer equipment, hoping to offset a potential hike in county...
View ArticleFrontier Spotlight: The Top Data Center Stories for February 2018
Last month was a big one for the data center industry, as reflected in the most popular stories on Data Center Frontier, which was filled with mergers, new players and projects, and more money flowing...
View ArticleCybersecurity in 2018: What to Expect and How to Survive
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Jake Gibson, Chief Security Officer/Chief Compliance Officer at LightEdge Solutions, explores cybersecurity in 2018 and breaks down what colocation providers and...
View ArticleDallas Data Center Market Shows No Signs of Slowing
It’s been a busy year in Dallas, and there’s plenty more to come. In addition to the recent Equinix acquisition of the Dallas Infomart, there’s been expansions from companies including RagingWire,...
View ArticleQTS Signs 24 Megawatt Hyperscale Deal in Northern Virginia
QTS Realty Trust has signed a 24 megawatt data center lease with a global cloud company, which will occupy a new data center building on land QTS has acquired in Manassas, Virginia. The huge lease,...
View ArticleAs Hybrid Clouds Flourish, Data Centers Will Benefit
Over the course of the previous year, I’ve seen a very interesting trend take place within the business world: the decentralization of IT and the vast distribution of resources. Where we once looked to...
View ArticleCable to Cloud: New Data Flows Raise Hopes in Virginia Beach
As undersea cables become strategic assets in the cloud wars, will data centers flourish where the cables emerge from the sea? The arrival of two major subsea cables in Virginia Beach has made the...
View ArticleFacebook Will Build $750 Million Data Center Campus Near Atlanta
Facebook will build a new data center campus in Stanton Springs, Georgia, the company said today. The facility in Newton County, about 40 miles east of downtown Atlanta, will be the company’s nine U.S....
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