Roundtable: Will Changing Weather Impact Site Selection, Data Center Ops?
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 ArticleEcosystems at The Edge: Cloud vs. Colocation
Last week in our special report series, we looked at why interconnection is key for edge data centers. We also explored some of the factors that should be considered when selecting a colocation...
View ArticleHow ‘Software-Defined Everything’ Impacts the Data Center
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 ArticleBare-Metal Servers Gain Momentum in the Data Center Market
Last week we launched a special report series on how bare-metal computing is changing the cloud landscape. This week, we’ll take a look common use cases for bare-metal servers and why bare-metal cloud...
View ArticleRoundtable: Hydrogen Has Promise as Future Backup Power Solution
Today we conclude our Data Center Executive Roundtable, as our panel looks at the technologies that can drive long-term sustainability for the data center industry – including hydrogen, which was...
View ArticleWEBINAR: Ecosystems & the Edge: Where the Data Center Becomes a Transactional...
As businesses all over the world move their core processes online, most are utilizing a hybrid mix of cloud infrastructure and owned compute in data centers. The most effective and attractive data...
View ArticleRoundtable Recap: Third-Quarter Update on Key Data Center Trends
Our 24th Data Center Executive Roundtable offers insights on four topics: The semiconductor shortage and the state of the data center supply chain, how recent weather disasters are impacting site...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Data Center Stories for September 2021
Facebook’s growth and the industry’s approach to sustainability were the hot topics for September for readers of Data Center Frontier. Many of you were keenly interested in our stories about the scope...
View ArticleAWS Has Spent $35 Billion on its Northern Virginia Data Centers
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has spent $35 billion on its cloud computing infrastructure in Northern Virginia over the past 10 years, the company said, illustrating the enormous impact data centers can...
View ArticleData Center Jobs: Engineering Positions Available in Major Markets
Each month Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza, post some of the hottest data center career opportunities in the market. Here’s a look at some of the latest data center jobs posted on the...
View ArticleWhat to Look For in a Bare-Metal Computing Provider
Last week in our special report series, we looked at common use cases for bare-metal servers and why bare-metal cloud computing is gaining momentum. This week, we continue with an overview of things to...
View ArticleGoogle Buys Land in Growing Cloud Cluster in Utah
Utah continues to gain momentum as a growth market for hyperscale computing. Google has purchased 300 acres of land for a future campus in Eagle Mountain, near where Facebook is currently building a...
View ArticleFacebook: We Disconnected Our Data Centers From the Internet
Facebook says that a configuration error broke its connection to a key network backbone, disconnecting all of its data centers from the Internet and leaving its DNS servers unreachable, the company...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Unnecessary Hardware Refreshes
Park Place Technologies’ Director of Product Management, Paul Mercina, advises Voices of the Industry readers how to accurately identify when IT hardware refreshes can be safely postponed and sometimes...
View ArticleEquinix Metal Hopes to Adopt Liquid Cooling Through Open19
Equinix has been testing the use of liquid cooling in its data centers, and hopes to use the technology in its Equinix Metal service to create a high-density, energy efficient computing platform. Like...
View ArticleSatellite Image Data is a Growth Business for Amazon Web Services
Satellites generate a lot of data, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is providing a delivery and storage platform for new applications from its satellite data customers. AWS highlighted its Space...
View ArticleLeesburg and Beyond: TA Realty Sees Long-Term Growth in Data Centers
TA Realty recently unveiled plans for a 1.5 million square foot data center campus near Leesburg, which is emerging as a new data center hub in the Northern Virginia data center market. The project is...
View ArticleThe Processor Matters With Bare-Metal Computing
Last week in our special report series, we discussed several things to look for when choosing a bare-metal computing provider, including instant provisioning and GPU options. In our final article in...
View ArticleGoogle Extends its Cloud to the Edge, Customer Data Centers
Google is extending its infrastructure to the edge, bringing its cloud hardware and software into telecom networks and customer data centers, including on-premises facilities. With its new Google...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Adds Carbon Tracking, ESG Reporting for Cloud Workloads
How green are your cloud services? Google is now providing granular data about the carbon impact of customer applications running in Google Cloud. Google says the new Carbon Footprint feature in its...
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