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The State of Data Center Design: 2016
At Data Center Frontier, design is one of the major themes we see shaping the industry. Our thesis: New markets will require new approaches to data center design, creating facilities that can operate...
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Renewable Energy Innovations in Green Data Centers
In this week’s Data Center Frontier Voices of the Industry, Aaron Binkley, Digital Realty’s Director of Sustainability, highlights several innovations in renewable energy that are showing up in green...
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Finding the Biggest Opportunity for Data Center Energy Savings
Your data center is running more workloads, supporting more business functionality, and is a critical part of the entire organization. Business leaders are relying on the capabilities of their IT...
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A Look Inside the Rackspace Open Compute Cloud
ASHBURN, Va. – The Open Compute Project set out to start a revolution in data center hardware. Hatched inside Facebook’s highly-customized data centers, the open source project’s lofty ambition is to...
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Service Level Agreements: How Service Providers Define and Meet SLAs
In this week’s Data Center Frontier Voices of the Industry, Josh Moody, FORTRUST’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, highlights the most important elements to analyze in colocation service...
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Evolving Data Center Cooling Environmental Ranges and Standards
The demand for more efficient and cost effective computing has driven organizations large and small to reevaluate their data center cooling strategies. This examination can incorporate many aspects,...
View ArticleSelecting the right PDU for your High Efficiency Data Center
Today’s data center ecosystem sits at the heart of any organization. In fact, business agility directly revolves around the capabilities of IT. With the advancements around cloud, virtualization,...
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Google Unveils 48V Data Center Rack, Joins Open Compute
SAN JOSE, Calif – The hyperscale data center of the future will run on 48 volt DC power, according to Google, which unveiled the custom design powering its servers and joined the Open Compute Project...
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The Tipping Point – Cloud IaaS v. Data Center Colocation
In this week’s Voices of the Industry Jason Ferrara, Chief Marketing Officer of Aligned Data Centers, offers his view on the tipping point – cloud IaaS v. data center colocation. Chief Marketing...
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Facebook Takes Open Compute Hardware to the Next Level
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Facebook is creating the next generation of open hardware, building new technologies into its data center platform. The social network is leveraging an alphabet soup of powerful...
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Virginia Extends Data Center Economic Incentives
Virginia has extended its data center economic incentives through 2035, ensuring that one of the industry’s major markets will remain competitive amid rising demand for large data center campuses....
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IO Lines Up $505 Million for Data Center Growth
Data center service provider IO has raised $445 million in debt capital from Deutsche Bank, and $60 million in additional growth capital from an affiliate of Macquarie Capital, the company said today....
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Understanding Data Center Temperature Guidelines
It is important to note that while closely followed by the industry, the TC9.9 data center temperature guidelines are only recommendations for the environmental operating ranges inside the data center,...
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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...
View ArticleSkybox Datacenters Enters Dallas Market
The booming Dallas data center market is about to welcome another new player. Skybox Datacenters, which operates a data center in Houston, has broken ground on a 21-acre campus in Plano, Texas, joining...
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RagingWire Scales Up Its Data Centers, and its Ambitions
ASHBURN, Va. – The world of IT services is being slowly transformed by huge global cloud platforms operated by Amazon, Google and Microsoft. How can colocation and hosting providers compete? The way...
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In the Data Center Colocation Industry, Top Markets Matter
In this week’s Voices of the Industry Douglas Adams, 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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The Internet of Everything: Infrastructure, IT and the Industrial Internet of...
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Samir Shah of BASELAYER explains how today’s data centers are no longer simple compute environments, but rather complex systems tying together physical...
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Controlling Supply Air Intake Temperatures
There are multiple issues related to controlling the air intake temperature that reaches your IT equipment, however, they generally fall into two major areas. The first is the method of controlling the...
View ArticleDuPont Fabros Signs 16-Megawatt Lease in Santa Clara
The cloud builders continue to lease massive chunks of data space, boosting the fortune of major data center developers. In the latest megadeal, DuPont Fabros Technology said this week that it has...
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