How the West Was ‘Tier 1’
Andrew Schaap, CEO at Aligned, takes a deep dive into Tier 1 cities for data center development, and how the evolution of Tier 1, 2, and 3 locations is changing the market. Andrew Schaap, CEO, Aligned...
View ArticleData Center Leasing Accelerates in Atlanta Market
Data center activity is accelerating in the Greater Atlanta market, with strong leasing in the third quarter and a substantial expansion for the region’s largest hyperscale campus. In recent earnings...
View ArticleKeep The Lights On: Strategies for Effective Distributed Management
Timothy Miscovich, Chief Commercial Officer at WTEC, walks readers through a series of strategies for effective data center management at distributed computing continues to make an impact on the data...
View ArticleColony’s Digital Playbook Powers Edge Strategy for DataBank
Marc Ganzi believes edge computing is going to change the digital economy. As our devices become more distributed and mobile, delivering data requires infrastructure in more places. That includes a...
View ArticleSwitch Teams With FedEx, Dell to Deploy Edge Data Centers
In a venture that brings together data and logistics, Switch is teaming with FedEx and Dell Technologies to create an edge computing network for enterprise customers, the companies said today. The...
View ArticleApplying Sustainability Practices that will Reach Data Center Net-Zero Energy...
Kris Holla, Group Vice President, Channel Sales for Nortek Data Center Cooling, highlights how focus on renewable energy alone will not help data centers reach sustainability net-zero goals. Kris...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Park Place, Vapor IO, Flexential
The steady stream of new about the data center industry continues. Here’s a roundup of a few notable announcements from this week. Park Place Acquires Curvature Data center hardware maintenance...
View ArticleData Center Operations Evolve in ‘Next Cycle’ of Industry Business Cycle
“The data center industry is on the cusp of the next cycle in its maturation as a business sector,” says BCS. What’s pushing the shift? A new report says the wave is being caused by infusion of...
View ArticleData Bytes: CBRE Sees 373 Megawatts of Data Center Construction for 2021
Data Bytes is a weekly roundup of research and analysis for the data center and cloud computing sector. Want to get it in your Inbox every Monday? Sign up for our DCF news updates. More than 373...
View ArticleEquinix Expands in Ashburn, Plans Fleet of Four-Story Data Centers
Ashburn, Virginia is where it all started for Equinix. More than 20 years after its very first data center helped create “Data Center Alley,” Equinix is kicking off its next phase of growth in Ashburn...
View ArticleCreating Sustainable Data Centers Via Procurement Practices, Advocacy and...
Pushed in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, what was already an increasing need for data centers has grown even larger. And as QTS points out in a new white paper, as the internet and our need for...
View ArticleCooling Edge Data Centers: It Requires More Thought
Jon Benson, Director of Technology and Solutions; Jack Kolar, VP MC/MUS Sales; and Abhishek Banerjee, Senior Project Application Engineer, from TAS Energy highlight a variety of different...
View ArticleSchneider Electric Adds Micro Data Centers for a More Rugged Edge
Sometimes the edge is a factory floor or a classroom rather than an IT closet. As edge computing is embraced by a broader range of customers and use cases, vendors are expanding their offerings to...
View ArticleSalt Lake City Data Center Market Growth Spurred on by Tax Incentives
Utah’s tax incentives for data centers are among the most attractive in the nation. That’s according to a new brief from Aligned Energy that hones in on the state, and Salt Lake City, in particular —...
View ArticleVantage Raises $1.25 Billion in Equity Capital to Fund Data Center Growth
Billions of dollars continue to flow into the data center industry, as investors focus on the opportunity to finance growth for major cloud platforms. Vantage Data Centers has raised $1.25 billion in...
View Article365 Data Centers Acquires Atlantic Metro
Regional operator 365 Data Centers this week announced its acquisition of Atlantic Metro Communications, which provides network and cloud services to enterprise customers, continuing to build 365’s...
View ArticlePower Quality Monitoring & its Impact on Today’s Data Centers
This post continues a new special report series and highlights the ins and outs of power quality management (PQM) for today’s data centers and the influence of power quality on data performance and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Plans Cloud Data Center Campus Near Atlanta
Microsoft is finalizing plans for a data center campus near Atlanta, according to local economic development officials, who this week authorized a $420 million bond resolution to support land...
View ArticleVantage Data Centers Acquires Hypertec to Expand Montreal Footprint
Just two years ago, the Montreal data center market was primarily a local affair, dominated by homegrown providers. That changed as hyperscale customers arrived to take advantage of Quebec’s ample...
View ArticleData Centers in Space: The Space-Cloud Connection
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...
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