Why Security and Compliance Are Essential When Adopting a Hybrid IT Strategy
Mark Houpt, Chief Information Security Officer at DataBank, takes a look at key security and compliance factors when adopting a hybrid IT strategy for your business. Mark Houpt, Chief Information...
View ArticleData Center Investments: Combining Real Estate & Tech Improves Strategy
When it comes to data center planning, there are many angles and approaches organizations can take. There’s no doubt data center investments can be hefty commitments. But with data continuing to grow...
View ArticleElement Critical Acquires Data Centers in Chicago Suburbs
Data center provider Element Critical is expanding into the Chicago market with the acquisition of two data centers in suburban Wood Dale, Illinois, the company announced today. The deal provides a...
View ArticleVantage Plans 1 Million SF Data Center Campus in Phoenix Market
Vantage Data Centers has acquired land in the Greater Phoenix area to build a hyperscale data center campus. The announcement is the latest step in an ambitious expansion effort, which has kicked into...
View ArticleEvoque Launches Colocation Business With Former AT&T Data Centers
There was a time when data center companies started out in a single market, perhaps with a single facility. Not so for Evoque Data Center Solutions, which launched this week with a fleet of 31 data...
View ArticleCompass Datacenters Preps Land for Phoenix Campus
As data center providers continue to announce new capacity in the Phoenix market, one leading player has quietly snapped up a large parcel of land for a future hyperscale campus. Compass Datacenters...
View ArticleNew Multi-Cloud Computing Solution Aims to Heighten Security & Boost Power
The jobs of today’s enterprise CTOs and CIOs are getting more and more difficult. They are expected to prepare and react to a quickly shifting connectivity and technology landscape. And often, they are...
View ArticleData Center Job Spotlight: Engineering Head for Mission Critical Facilities
Kicking off 2019, our data center job spotlight series enters the new year highlighting a position for an engineering department head in the growing data center market of Washington, D.C. In fact, the...
View ArticleEdgeCore Will Enter Santa Clara Data Center Market
Data center developer EdgeCore Internet Real Estate will enter the Silicon Valley market, extending its data center building spree to a fifth major market. EdgeCore says it has acquired 12 acres of...
View ArticleSTACK Infrastructure Launches National Data Center Platform
As hyperscale computing transforms the world of Internet infrastructure, new investors and new data center platforms are emerging to focus on the needs of hyperscale players. The latest is STACK...
View ArticleBreaking Down Organizational Siloes in Data Centers Boosts Efficiency, Agility
One of the most important elements of todays enterprises is agility. And there’s nowhere that is more true than in the data center and IT department. Enterprises need to be able to shift and adapt to...
View ArticleCompass EdgePoint Sees Opportunity in Building Better Networks
Chris Crosby has been thinking about the network for a long time. Crosby is the CEO of Compass Datacenters, and as he talks about the evolution of data center industry in 2019, it recalls his...
View ArticleGoogle Makes Major Investment in Solar Energy to Power its Cloud
As it expands its cloud computing operations in the Southeast, Google is investing in solar power to provide renewable energy to support its data centers. Google said today that it will purchase the...
View ArticleHyperscale Leasing is Booming. Can the Supply Chain Keep Pace?
Multi-tenant wholesale data center leasing doubled in 2018 compared to 2017, spurred by a proliferation of a huge hyperscale leases, according to a new research report from North American Data Centers....
View ArticleEdgeConneX Ready for the Next Phase of Edge Computing
For a growing ecosystem of startups, investors and analysts, edge computing is the hot new frontier. But it’s old hat for EdgeConneX. That’s why EdgeConneX would like to “retake ownership of the edge,”...
View ArticleDMaaS Growth is Set to Outpace DCIM in 2019
Jeff Klaus, General Manager of Intel Data Center Management Solutions, outlines how data center management as a service — known as DMaaS — is gaining steam as a cloud-based data center monitoring...
View ArticleNew Report: Simplifying Data Center Contract Negotiation
When looking into buying or selling data center services, it’s easy to get caught up in important considerations like location, type, size, energy sources and more. But above all, one of the key...
View ArticleTradition to Transformation: Financial Services IT
Matt Gleason, VP and general manager, Northeast, for Coresite, explores the fact that despite the obvious benefits of digitally transforming a business, planning and executing a transformation effort...
View ArticleThe Green Data Landlord: Digital Realty Procures Solar Power for Facebook
Huge hyperscale Internet companies aren’t just outsourcing their data center requirements. Now they’re having their data center landlords procure their renewable electricity, too. In a deal that...
View ArticleEquinix Eyes the Edge. And the Cloud. And the Enterprise
Equinix has built a global data center empire, becoming a lynchpin of the Internet and digital business. With 200 data centers and 21 million square feet of space deployed across 52 markets, Equinix is...
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