Pop Quiz, Hotshot: Test Your Data Center IQ
In this week’s Voice of the Industry, Dan Draper, Director of Programs for Emerson Network Power shares some insights from the recent Data Center IQ Survey Report. Dan Draper is Director of Programs...
View ArticleMicrosoft May Deploy More Undersea Data Centers
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Microsoft will continue to develop its design for undersea data centers. The cloud giant is intrigued with the potential benefits of unmanned server farms on the ocean floor, and may...
View ArticleDo Report Cards Still Haunt CIOs?
In this week’s Voice of the Industry, Lisa Rhodes, Vice President of Marketing at Verne Global, shares 4 tips that forward thinking CIOs should consider when planning their data center strategies. Lisa...
View ArticleTransforming your Data Center – The Impacts of Emerging Power Architecture
Today – we’re facing a digital evolution where new technologies are allowing users and organizations to be a lot more productive and agile. This has created a massive movement towards adopting cloud...
View ArticleDoes OCP Compute for Rack Makers?
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Can the largest players in the data center power and cooling business benefit from the Open Compute Project? Schneider Electric and Emerson Network Power are actively engaging with...
View Article‘Strong Bidders’ for DuPont Fabros New Jersey Data Center
It’s been the big question in the greater New York data center market: Who will buy one of the region’s largest facilities? There should be an answer this summer. DuPont Fabros Technology said there...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things May Create A New Breed of Data Centers
NEW YORK – The Internet of Things will create millions of connected devices, generating data from homes, cars and the vast reaches of industrial infrastructure. Data will be everywhere, and many of the...
View ArticleCreating the Connected and Efficient Data Center
We are now in the cloud era. The data center has assumed a new, more prominent role as a strategic asset within the organization. Increasing capacity demands and the pressure to support the “always-on”...
View ArticleThe Virtual Reality Future: Bigger Pipes, More Data Centers
NEW YORK – Robert Scoble works on the front lines of virtual reality. As the entrepreneur in residence at Upload VR, Scoble has been test-driving the latest technology from pioneers like Magic Leap and...
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 ArticleNew ASHRAE Data Center Cooling Standard Will Get Additional Review
The data center industry will have one more opportunity to offer feedback on a new energy efficiency standard for data center cooling. ASHRAE, the leading standards group for cooling professionals, has...
View ArticleData Center Security: An Integrative Approach to Achieving Holistic Security
Download this white paper on data center security Working with modern cloud and data center technologies isn’t always an easy task. Today, we’re seeing a boom in cloud adoption and data center...
View ArticleImproving Data Center Energy Efficiency
There is no question that improving data center energy efficiency is an important goal. However, the basic function of a data center is to provide a secure physical space, ensure the availability of...
View ArticleChecklist: How to Find the Best Colocation Provider
Josh Moody, SVP Sales FORTRUST In this week’s Voice of the Industry, Josh Moody, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at FORTRUST, shares a checklist to find the Best Colocation Provider....
View ArticleCan Data Center Builders Keep Up With the Cloud Arms Race?
NEW YORK – Data center space is leasing like never before, prompting a building boom for developers of wholesale plug-n-play space. In some markets data center companies are leasing facilities before...
View ArticleCyrusOne Eyes the Pacific Northwest
The growth of the data center industry continues in the Pacific Northwest, which is about to get another new player. Colocation specialist CyrusOne says it is scouting properties in the region to boost...
View ArticleA Major Earthquake is Likely Near, Here’s How to Protect Critical Networking...
In this week’s Voice of the Industry, Sam Rodriguez, Sr, Product Manager of Cabinet & Thermal Solutions at Chatsworth Products, shares how to protect up to 1500 lb of critical network equipment...
View ArticleDigital Realty Acquires Equinix Data Centers in Key European Markets
In a major deal between the industry’s two largest players, Digital Realty has agreed to acquire eight data centers being divested by Equinix as part of the colocation firm’s purchase of Telecity...
View ArticleReducing Data Center Cost, Time, and Physical Constraints
In this week’s Voices of the Industry Thomas Doherty, Chief Operating Officer at Aligned Data Centers discusses ways to eliminate the cost, time and physical constraints in the data center so you focus...
View ArticleScaling Up: Google Building Four-Story Data Centers
The explosive growth of cloud computing has prompted Google to rethink how it constructs its data centers. To boost its cloud capacity, Google is going vertical with its server farms, shifting from a...
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