The Cloud is Better at the Edge
Phillip Marangella, chief marketing officer of EdgeConneX, highlights how many of today’s CIOs are bringing their cloud strategies to the edge. Phillip Marangella, CMO, EdgeConneX Enterprises continue...
View ArticleWEBINAR: Greening of Data Centers and the Sustainability Imperative
The science is clear and the need for climate action has never been as urgent than in 2020. Wildfires were rampant across Western states and the U.S. experienced one of the worst hurricane seasons on...
View ArticleCloud Platforms Building ‘The World’s Computer’ to Drive Digital Change
As he announced record earnings powered by his company’s cloud computing business, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella captured the wave of change sweeping the global IT landscape. “What we are witnessing is...
View ArticleData Center Jobs: Opportunities Heating Up in Virginia Market
Data center staffing remains a hot topic, with the job market in full swing. Service providers and construction firms are seeking candidates for multiple positions in the Virginia market, the largest...
View ArticleBeyond Green Power: New Frontiers in Data Center Sustainability
As the drive for data center sustainability enters a new and more urgent phase, what are the next frontiers beyond efficiency and renewable energy sourcing? Here’s a look at the technologies,...
View ArticleAutomating Fiber Cross Connects: Ready for Today, Prepared for Tomorrow
Bob Shine, VP Marketing and Product Management at Telescent, explores the ins and outs of automating fiber and how new systems are arising to successfully automate the fiber layer. Bob Shine, VP of...
View ArticleFlexential Continues its Expansion, Targeting Hybrid Enterprise Solutions
As it enters 2021, data center provider Flexential can tap a growing portfolio of services and markets to help enterprise customers sort out a complex IT landscape. CEO Chris Downie says recovery from...
View ArticleNew Data Center Infrastructure Strategies Top of Mind for IT Management in 2021
Coming off the heels of a tumultuous 2020, IT management must be prepared to respond new challenges while also protecting and improving the performance of data centers and infrastructure. 2021 plans...
View ArticleFrom PUE to ‘GUE’– Measuring the Continued Evolution of Data Center...
Sean Farney, Director of Data Center Marketing, Kohler Power Systems, highlights the need for an all-encompassing and standardized way to measure and report on data center sustainability across the...
View ArticleThe Power of Progress: Price, Predictability Boost Interest in Renewables
Data Center Frontier Editor Rich Miller recently had a conversation about the future of sustainable data centers, with Kevin Hagen, Director, Corporate Responsibility at Iron Mountain, and Alex Sharp,...
View ArticleCan Cloud Computing Lead the Way on Climate?
When it comes to climate change, it is time for the data center sector to lead. The massive energy footprint of cloud computing enables the data center industry to drive a global shift to...
View ArticleHow to Know Your TCO in the Colocation Marketplace
Dan Meltzer, Managing Director, Sales, at Sabey Data Centers, explores the challenges of establishing accurate TCO stats in a variety of different colocation markets. Dan Meltzer, Managing Director,...
View ArticleSabey Data Centers Gets $150 Million Investment from Manulife
Developer Sabey Data Centers has raised $150 million from new strategic partner Manulife Investment Management to help its expand Sabey’s growing operations. Seattle -based Sabey, which is one of the...
View ArticleCBRE Embraces Software-Defined Power with VPS Partnership
Software-defined power will be available to more data centers through CBRE Data Center Solutions, which will offer a suite of services that unlock stranded power capacity to its global data center...
View ArticleFacebook to Expand Utah Data Center Campus by 900,000 SF
There was a time when data center expansion meant adding more servers to a cabinet, more racks inside a cage, or leasing an additional data hall. In the age of hyperscale computing, the largest players...
View ArticleData Center M&A On the Horizon as New SPACs Go Shopping
More investment dollars are targeting the digital infrastructure sector, signaling a new round of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on the horizon. News reports last week indicated there are two new...
View ArticleTrends in Next Generation Power Monitoring
Alan Katz, Product Manager for MCMS at Anord Mardix, highlights how the advent of intelligent power monitoring has brought about a variety of new opportunities and positive benefits for the data center...
View ArticleEvoque Boosts Connectivity Options, Looks to Expand Data Centers
After a year of investing in its team and facilities, Evoque Data Center Solutions enters 2021 with new connectivity options, and ambitions to boost its customer base and presence in the data center...
View ArticleBuilding Through the Pandemic, Data Centers Added 17 Million SF in 2020
Data center developers added nearly 17 million square feet of new capacity during 2020, deploying new cloud capacity at top speed despite the challenges of construction projects during the COVID-19...
View ArticleTexas Data Centers Rely on Generators Amid Power Emergency
Amid a statewide power emergency, major data centers in Texas are running on generator power to keep customers online and reduce load on the state’s struggling grid. The state’s data center companies...
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