Inside A Google Data Center: 2020 Version
Google doesn’t like to let people inside its data centers. But it DOES like to make its customers feel secure about the privacy and safety of its data. That’s why every few years, Google provides a...
View ArticleThe Potential of Dynamic Fiber Cross Connects in a Data Center Campus
Bob Shine, VP of Marketing and Product Management at Telescent, explores how to handle and scale growing cross connects in a data center campus, using dynamic fiber cross connects. Bob Shine, VP of...
View ArticleFocused on France: Digital Realty Building Big in Paris, Marseille
After years of playing a supporting role, France is emerging as a leading player in data center growth in Europe. Digital Realty is driving that trend with new data center campuses in Paris and...
View ArticleData Center Jobs: Companies Hiring in Virginia’s Data Center Alley
As the summer heats up, data center providers are looking to fill a variety of engineering and management positions. See below for top job openings for this month, including two opportunities in...
View ArticleEvoque Shifts into Growth Mode, Eyes Global M&A Opportunities
Evoque Data Center Solutions is ready to grow. With an experienced dealmaker as its new CEO, and the backing of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, the company expects to be an active player in the...
View ArticleColony-Led Group Invests $1.2 Billion in Vantage Portfolio, Funding Future...
Colony Capital is leading a group that will invest $1.2 billion in Vantage Data Centers’ data centers, providing Vantage with capital to build more data centers. The deal represents a new phase in the...
View ArticleAs Stream Gets Wired, Amazon Joins the Party in Goodyear
Data center development continues to surge in the Western suburbs of Phoenix. This week Amazon bought land in the growing data center cluster in Goodyear, paying $19.85 million for 91 acres of land....
View ArticleLithium-ion UPS Far More Than a Passing Fad — Don’t Get Left Behind, as...
Ed Spears, Product Marketing Manager, Eaton Critical Power Solutions Division, highlights the benefits and changing reputation of lithium-ion UPS batteries in the data center and colocation industry....
View ArticleData Centers – A Resilient Economic Lifeline Through the Pandemic
Darob Malek-Madani and Samuel Bendix, or National Real Estate Advisors LLC, explore how data centers have performed as an ‘economic lifeline’ and bright spot through the COVID-19 pandemic. Samuel...
View ArticleEdgeConneX Expanding its Portland Data Center Campus
EdgeConneX continues to expand its data center network. This week the company confirmed that it is adding 6 megawatts of capacity at its data center presence in Portland, Oregon. The company is...
View ArticleDark Fiber is A Hot Commodity for Data Center Investors
Dark fiber is a hot commodity, as cloud computing platforms seek more network capacity to deliver data across their massive data center campuses. Over the past year, investment firms with data center...
View ArticleGRC Raises $7 Million to Advance Immersion Cooling
Data center cooling specialist GRC (Green Revolution Cooling) has raised $7 million in a Series B funding from private investors, which will allow the company to accelerate the development of its...
View ArticleDCF Podcast: Data Center Cooling Trends
The Data Center Frontier Show podcast tells the story of the data center industry and its future. Our podcast is hosted by Rich Miller, editor of Data Center Frontier, who is your guide to the ongoing...
View ArticleWhat to Consider When Choosing a Colocation Data Center Facility
The colocation data center is rising in popularity, and a new e-book from Sabey Data Centers explores why these have become popular alternatives to proprietary facilities for several key reasons. Get...
View ArticleData Center Visibility Drives Cost Savings, Time Efficiencies for Alvarez &...
A new case study from QTS explores how Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) — which helps companies around the world address complex business issues to boost their productivity and performance — used...
View ArticlePandemic Spurs Data Center Construction Boom in Northern Virginia
The COVID-19 pandemic is driving demand for more data centers in the world’s largest cloud cluster. Developers are racing to build new IT capacity in Northern Virginia to meet extraordinary demand for...
View ArticleHow a FedRAMP-Compliant Facility Can Benefit Any Hosted Infrastructure
Vlad Friedman, CTO at DataBank, explores the benefits of a FedRAMP-compliant facility. Vlad Friedman, Chief Technology Officer at DataBank. Empowering government agencies to transform their IT...
View ArticleNorthern Virginia Tech Council Names Finalists for 2020 Data Center Awards
The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) has announced the finalists for the second annual Virginia Data Center Awards. The finalists represent excellence in the areas of sustainability,...
View ArticleNovva Launches to Build Hyperscale Data Center Campus in Salt Lake City
Wes Swenson knows the Salt Lake City data center market as well as anyone. He built C7 Data Centers into Utah’s leading colocation player before selling the company to DataBank in 2017. Swenson...
View ArticleAmerican Tower Begins Deploying Edge Data Centers at Towers
American Tower has begun deploying a network of small modular data centers at its telecom tower properties, commencing a new phase in the giant telecom infrastructure company’s expansion into edge...
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