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Compass Targets the Cloud Market With New Data Center Design
In the data center industry, design is closely tied to business opportunities. This is increasingly true in 2015, as service providers use design refinements to target specific market opportunities....
View ArticleThe Top 10 Data Center Stories of 2015
The data center industry never stands still. Innovation is our focus here at Data Center Frontier, so it’s not surprising that many of our most popular stories of 2015 involved new approaches to...
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Executive Roundtable: Data Center Trends for 2016
Welcome to our second Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In our Year-End...
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Bare Metal Clouds and Dedicated Data Centers
In this edition of Voice of the Industry Chris Crosby, CEO of Compass Datacenters explains why for many organizations with sophisticated IT needs a dedicated data center may be a better alternative....
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Energy Efficiency: Hyperscale vs. Multi-Tenant
Today we continue our Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In today’s...
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Switch Goes Green With Renewable Power for SUPERNAPs
The Switch SUPERNAP data centers are known for their bold color schemes, with mission-critical infrastructure painted red, blue and grey to identify the multiple power paths. But in 2016 Switch is...
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The Blurring Boundaries Between Wholesale and Colo
Today we continue our Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In today’s...
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Progress on Aisle Containment for Data Center Cooling
Today we continue our Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In today’s...
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Freeze Ray: Blu-Ray Cold Storage for Your Data Center
Last year we brought you inside Facebook’s data center to see its Blu-Ray cold storage system, a new way to manage the flood of incoming data from Facebook users, who upload more than 900 million...
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Inefficiencies Cost Data Centers Time and Money
Your business now completely relies on the capabilities of your data center and IT ecosystem. Critical applications, resources, and even diverse workloads are all being delivered via the modern data...
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How to Mitigate Risk in Data Center Site Selection
Robert McClary, Senior Vice President and General Manager at FORTRUST, provides his view on how companies can mitigate risk in the data center site selection process. Here are six risk factors to...
View ArticleCloud Growth Spurs Robust Leasing for Data Center Firms
The largest Internet companies continued to lease lots of data center space in 2015, leading to one of the strongest years yet for providers of wholesale server space, according a new report from a...
View ArticleUber Scales Up Its Data Centers to Support Growth
There’s a major new player in the data center market, and its Uber. The fast-growing ride-sharing company leased large chunks of “plug-n-play” wholesale space in three major markets during 2015,...
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H5 Enters Phoenix Market With Acquisition of NextFort
H5 Data Centers is entering the Phoenix market with its acquisition of NextFort, which operates a 180,000 square foot data center in Chandler, Arizona. Phoenix will be the eighth geographic market for...
View ArticleScaling Up the Lights Out Data Center
The “lights out” server farm has been living large in the imaginations of data center futurists. It’s been 10 years since HP first made headlines with its vision of unmanned data centers, filled with...
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In the Data Center Colocation Industry, Top Markets Matter
In this week’s Voices of the Industry Douglas Adams, Acting President at RagingWire, provides his view on how in the data center colocation industry – top markets matter. Douglas Adams, RagingWire Data...
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Depicting the True Value of Airflow Containment
In this week’s Voices of the Industry Sam Rodriguez, Sr. Product Manager of Cabinet & Thermal Solutions for Chatsworth Products share some great advice on airflow containment strategies. Sam...
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Why Renewable Energy Will Power the Green Data Centers of Tomorrow
The data center has been experiencing a digital revolution as of late as more organizations move to cloud and new kinds of next-generation technologies. Today, there are more users, more applications,...
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Taking Tier IV to Thailand: A Modular Design for the Global Market
Las Vegas doesn’t get many major windstorms. That’s why the double roof at the Switch SUPERNAP 8 data center is a novel feature. The roof system, known as SwitchSHIELD, has two roof decks located nine...
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Google Data Center Footprint Growing in Southeast
As it expands its massive data center network, Google is focusing a large chunk of its computing power in the Southeastern United States, a data center site selection strategy that is unique among...
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