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Now, More Than Ever, Remote Management of Data Centers Is Essential
Lance Devin, Chief Information Officer at EdgeConneX, highlights how in today’s climate, remote management capabilities for data centers have become even more critical. Lance Devin, Chief Information...
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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Data Center Industry
The COVID-19 Coronavirus crisis has reinforced the importance of data centers and what they do. The digital transformation that was thought to be a multi-year evolution has been dramatically...
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Google Shifting Server Workloads to Use More Renewable Energy
Google is using sophisticated new software tools to reduce the carbon impact of its massive data center network, shifting large computing jobs to times where they can be powered with renewable energy....
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Data Centers Accelerate Their Focus on Sustainability, Green Power
On Earth Day 2020, the data center industry is focusing on sustainability as never before, with the executive suite and customers aligned on the importance of using renewable energy to power digital...
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Scaling Up Quickly? You Can’t Ignore These Five Factors
Holland Barry, Senior Vice President of on-demand services at Cyxtera Technologies, highlights five factors that can enable institutions scaling their IT departments and technology in an unprecedented...
View ArticleAdapting Network Security for a Distributed Workforce
Network managers are grappling with an explosion of users and devices, a trend that has intensified with the widespread shift to a distributed workforce during social distancing lockdowns. Amidst the...
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How MOPs Ensure Military-Grade Precision in the Data Center
Jay Brummett, Senior Director of Facilities at DataBank, explores how Method of Procedure (MOP) in the data center should be one of today’s colo provider’s main focuses. Jay Brummett, Senior Director...
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Rack Density Keeps Rising at Enterprise Data Centers
The amount of power used by each data center rack continues to rise for enterprise users, according to new research from AFCOM, the industry association for data center professionals. The 2020 State of...
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Terabytes From Space: Satellite Imaging is Filling Data Centers
Commercial imaging companies are collecting upwards of 100 terabytes (TB) or more per day, every day, 365 days a year, accumulating huge data sets measured in petabytes per company. While Hollywood has...
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Virtual Commissioning: Delivering New Data Center Capacity in a Pandemic
Data center developers are adapting quickly to the new pandemic practices of social distancing and worker safety, improvising new approaches to delivering new capacity through the COVID-19 health...
View ArticleSabey Data Centers Lines up $800 Million to Fund Growth
Developer Sabey Data Centers has lined up $800 million in funding, using securitized notes to arrange low-cost capital for continued expansion of the company’s U.S. data center campuses. Sabey operates...
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The Changing Face of the Working Edge
Angie McMillin, Vice President and General Manager of IT Systems at Vertiv, explores the shifting sands within the world of edge computing. For the past five years or so, the dominant storyline in the...
View ArticleDigital Realty Steps Up Its Sustainability Initiatives
When it comes to the climate impact of its data center operations, Digital Realty will follow the science. On Thursday the data center developer said it will work with The Science-Based Targets...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Data Center Stories for April 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to dominate the news in April, as the services delivered by the data center industry continued to serve as a lifeline to the global economy. Our in-depth pandemic...
View ArticleCompass Buys Property for $100 Million Toronto Data Center Campus
Compass Datacenters has purchased property for a new data center campus in Toronto, the leading business and financial hub in Canada. Compass plans to invest $100 million in the first phase of...
View ArticleAstra Capital Acquires Majority Stake in Edge Specialist DartPoints
Private equity firm Astra Capital Management has acquired a majority interest in DartPoints, which offers colocation services for edge computing, the companies said this week. Astra will invest...
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Data Center Jobs: Sales, Engineering Positions in Major Business Markets
Data centers are continuing to hire, even as unemployment spikes due to the COVID-19 crises. The value of data and importance of today’s data centers hasn’t changed. Top data center jobs for May...
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Data Centers Feeling the Heat! The History and Future of Data Center Cooling
Dror Shenkar, Senior Architect of Intel Data Center Management Solutions, and Shahar Belkin, VP R&D at Zuta-Core, explore the past, current and future landscape of data center cooling. What’s next?...
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The Bathtub Curve and Data Center Equipment Reliability
Jake Blough, Chief Technology Officer for Service Express, explores the Bathtub Curve theory, its limitations, and data center equipment reliability and maintenance. Jake Blough, Chief Technology...
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How Data Center Site Selection Impacts Disaster Recovery Efforts
The most current disaster on the public’s mind, of course, is COVID-19, the global pandemic. That said, the rate of natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, floods or wildfires,...
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