Data Center Cooling Vendors Head to Court Over Heat Wheel
As more data centers embrace indirect air cooling, two cooling vendors specializing in the technology are headed to court in a patent dispute. At the heart of the dispute is a heat wheel, a heat...
View ArticleAs Cloud Wars Intensify, Google Adds More Data Centers
Google has been building bigger data centers for more than a decade. But it’s about to turn the dial up to 11. The company is ramping up its data center capacity, with plans to add 12 new compute...
View ArticleFlexible Design Pays Off for Vantage Data Centers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – A tour of the 18-acre campus of Vantage Data Centers campus offers insights into the recent evolution of the data center industry. That’s especially true for the V2 building, the...
View ArticleKeys to Effective Fiber Optic Cable Installation
Duke Robertson, from Chatsworth Products shares a few best practices for fiber optic cable installation in your data center. Duke Robertson, Product Manager – Open Systems, Chatsworth Products The...
View ArticleThe Impact of Energy Star Ratings on Data Center IT Equipment
In the past, most IT equipment power loads did not decrease much even when idle, representing a huge direct waste of IT energy, as well as creating a heat load that required (and wasted) cooling system...
View ArticleEbullient Aims to Take Liquid Cooling Beyond the HPC Market
LAS VEGAS – A data center startup offers a new take on popular approaches to liquid cooling, and is hoping it can build a following beyond the high-performance computing community, which has...
View ArticleVerne Global Applies Hybrid Approach to Power Design
As more customers seek data center space without backup generators or UPS support, service providers are developing products to meet this demand. The “variable resiliency” use case may seem like an...
View ArticleExecutive Roundtable: Cloud Trends for 2016
Welcome to our third Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In our First...
View ArticleA Call for Data Center Sustainability
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Adam Kramer, Switch’s Executive Vice President of Strategy, explores what it really means for a data center to be green and the importance of sustainability. ADAM...
View ArticleExamining the Proposed ASHRAE 90.4 Standard
The stated purpose of the of the proposed ASHRAE 90.4P standard is “to establish the minimum energy efficiency requirements of Data Centers for: the design, construction, and a plan for operation and...
View ArticleHybrid Cloud: What It Means for Multi-Tenant Data Centers
Today we continue our Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In today’s...
View ArticleData Center IQ Survey – A Look at Cost, Deployment, and Risk
Today’s business is tightly coupled with the capabilities of its data center. We’re seeing more users, more virtual workloads, and a lot more use-cases for greater levels of density and compute...
View ArticleThe State of DCIM in 2016
Today we continue our Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In today’s...
View ArticleMore Acquisition Action Ahead for the Data Center Sector
Today we continue our Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In today’s...
View ArticleThe Top Causes of Data Center Downtime
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Josh Moody, FORTRUST’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, explores the top causes for Data Center Downtime. Josh Moody, SVP Sales FORTRUST With so much...
View ArticleMind the Gap – Data Disconnect and Energy Availability
Today’s CIO faces a host of challenges and new trends. Budgets are tight and in many cases decreasing. At the same time, IT is becoming more strategic as the amount of data created is exploding and the...
View ArticleWall Street Gains Help Data Center Developers Build Bigger Clouds
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The data center industry’s winning track record on Wall Street will make it easier to finance future projects to drive the massive growth of cloud computing, according to industry CEOs...
View ArticleMicrosoft Accelerates its Cloud Growth With Data Center Deals
The cloud computing arms race is accelerating, and the battle will be waged with data centers. The leading players are moving quickly to amass the capacity they will need for the clouds to come,...
View ArticleIntel Begins Rollout of FPGAs to Power the Cloud, IoT
This week Intel has taken a big step toward more powerful and customizable chips for servers, shipping a module that integrates its latest Xeon E5 processors with programmable chips acquired in its $16...
View ArticleAt ScaleMatrix, Cabinet Design Drives Extreme Density
After years of building data centers, Chris Orlando and Mark Ortenzi paused in 2009 to go back to the drawing board. The industry veterans took three years to develop and test a new way to build and...
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