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Achieving Sustainability through Flexibility in the Data Center
In this week’s Voices of the Industry column, Marc Cram, Director of Sales for Server Technology, discusses how PDUs and advancements in the PDU market have helped address the need for reusability and...
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Sale-Leaseback Emerges as a Portfolio Building Strategy
Last December, as we looked ahead at the trends that would shape the coming year, Data Center Frontier noted that “2018 is shaping up as a big year for sale-leaseback deals, due to the increased number...
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State of the European Data Center Market
In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Eric Boonstra, VP & GM of Iron Mountain Data Centers Western Europe explores how the European data center market is evolving and poised for future growth....
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New Ways to Deploy Edge Capacity for Data Center Leaders
This is the first entry in a four-part Data Center Frontier special report series that explores edge computing from a data center perspective. This post serves as an introduction to why data center...
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From Dirt to Cloud: How a Data Center is Created
ASHBURN, Va. – It’s known as a “greenfield” data center. But it all starts with dirt. In this case, it begins with a 24-acre land parcel in Ashburn, Virginia in the world’s busiest concentration of...
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DCIM Market Leans Toward More Integrations with VMware & Across Hybrid Clouds
The DCIM market has grown in a variety of different directions, and new features, like bidirectional integrations with VMware’s vSphere on AWS and across hybrid clouds, are popping up all over....
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De-Commoditizing Data Center Solutions and Services
In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Jason Green, Chief Technical Officer at Element Critical Data Centers and Essential Technology Centers, explores the concept of de-commmoditizing data center...
View ArticleHuge COLO-D Expansion Highlights Montreal’s Hyperscale Mojo
In the latest sign of momentum for Quebec as a destination for hyperscale data centers, COLO-D has announced plans to build a 150-megawatt data center campus near Montreal. The region has seen robust...
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Understanding the Edge and the World of ‘Connected Devices’
This is the second entry in a four-part Data Center Frontier special report series that explores edge computing from a data center perspective. This entry explores the intersection of the edge and the...
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Investing in Edge Computing: It’s Still Early, Investors Say
AUSTIN, Texas – Edge computing is a hot trend. Are there opportunities for individual investors to capitalize on the future growth of distributed computing? Not yet, according to several panels at the...
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How Anthem Transformed its Legacy Data Center into a Model of Efficiency
In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Chatsworth Products’ John Thompson explores how Anthem, one of the largest healthcare companies in the country, transformed and modernized their legacy data...
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In Expansion Mode, Aligned Energy Looks to the Future
PHOENIX, Ariz. – When it entered the data center business three years ago, Aligned Energy knew how difficult it can be to predict the future. That’s why it created a flexible data center design that...
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Frontier Spotlight: The Top Data Center Stories for October 2018
October brought with it cooler temperatures across the country, as well as some big moves and news stemming from the data center industry in some of the country’s biggest colocation markets. Hyperscale...
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Microsoft CEO Nadella: Underwater Data Centers Are the Future
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company’s underwater data center, known as Project Natick, could play a key role in Microsoft’s future infrastructure. Speaking at the Microsoft Future Decoded...
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How to Leverage True Edge Flexibility and Overcome Operational Challenges
This is the third entry in a four-part Data Center Frontier special report series that explores edge computing from a data center perspective. This post covers the potential and benefits of true edge...
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Can Voice Assistants Play A Role in the Data Center?
Here’s a scenario for you: It’s morning and you walk into your data center and there’s a note from the previous day from your DevOps team. They’re asking you to spin up a few AWS instances so they can...
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GaN Rising as Power Chain Option as Energy Demand, Cost Grows
The data center is an ever-changing entity and part of our technological landscape. But sometimes the biggest changes in the colocation industry happen at the core of what makes a data center tick, and...
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Vertical Data Centers: ‘Watts Per Acre’ Guides Construction Economics
PHOENIX, Ariz. – As land for data center development becomes scarce in key markets, more projects are adopting multi-story designs that seek to make the most of real estate. But the economics of...
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Data Center Job Spotlight: Critical Facility Manager in Toronto
We are headed north for this month’s data center job spotlight, with the leading data center critical facility manager position located in Toronto, Ontario, a growing market for the colocation...
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Northern Virginia Data Center Market Approaches 1 Gigawatt
With the latest info on the always-growing Northern Virginia colocation market, we continue our series of stories on the leading geographic markets for data center space. Data Center Frontier is...
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