Data center startup Vapor IO will team with Crown Castle to deploy Project Volutus, a distributed network of small data centers at the base of telecom towers.
Flexibility Creates Opportunity for Ascent Data Center Business
Versatility allows Ascent to be opportunistic as it expands its data center business, tailoring its approach to a particular facility or geographic market.
Data Center M&A Scorecard: The Deals That Are Shaping the Cloud
2017 is already shaping up as a landmark year for consolidation in the data center industry, including the megamerger between Digital Realty and DFT. Here’s a recap of the deals thus far in 2017.
Focus on Cloud
Built to Show: RagingWire’s Visual Data Center
The facility tour is a a staple of the data center business. The RagingWire CA3 facility in Sacramento represents perhaps the ultimate example of a data center optimized around customer tours.
Switch Expands Again, Boosting Las Vegas Campus to 2 Million SF
Switch has opened Las Vegas 10, the newest data center on its Core Campus (SUPERNAP) campus. The 350,000 square foot facility brings the campus to 2 million square feet of data center space.
Focus on Site Selection
East Meets West: Peak 10 Acquires ViaWest for $1.7 Billion
The merger mania in the data center industry continued today as Peak 10 acquired ViaWest from parent company Shaw Communications in a $1.675 billion all-cash transaction.
Zone Defense in the Cloud: Why Digital Realty Bought DFT
Digital Realty’s acquisition of DuPont Fabros creates a cloud colossus with 26 million SF of data center space, and a dominant market position in the two hottest markets: Northern Virginia and Chicago.
Focus on Colocation
At Peak 10, Larger Ambitions and Larger Data Centers
With new leadership, Peak 10 is looking beyond its home markets in the Southeast and ready to begin building a national data center footprint.
Focus on Connected Cars
Autonomous Cars Could Drive a Deluge of Data Center Demand
Autonomous vehicles will be like supercomputers rolling down the highway, generating up to 4 terabytes of data per day. That could translate into massive demand for data centers and wireless infrastructure.
Focus on Servers
New Server Hardware Boosts Data-Crunching for AI, Cloud
The rise of specialized computing is bringing powerful new server hardware into the data center, a trend seen in new tech from Google, NVIDIA, AMD, ARM, Intel and Microsoft.
Data Center Frontier Special Reports
DCIM: Moving Beyond the Physical Aspects of the Data Center
This is the fourth and final entry in a Data Center Frontier series that explores the ins and outs of DCIM systems.
Focus on Cooling
AI Boom Boosts GPU Adoption, High-Density Cooling
The rise of artificial intelligence, and the GPU computing hardware that often supports it, is reshaping the data center industry’s relationship with power density.
Executive Roundtable
Roundtable: Data Center M&A Action Will Continue
The consolidation in the data center industry will continue in 2017, with robust M&A activity, according to the four thought leaders on our DCF Executive Roundtable.
Data Center White Paper Library
How Lithium Ion Batteries are Impacting Your Data Center
With evolving data center needs, come new challenges around power. No, not that kind – batteries. Learn how new Lithium Ion batter technologies are changing facilities management and creating even more reliability.
Voices of the Industry
Why Continually Evaluating and Updating Your Data Center Security Strategy is Mission Critical
Threats will continue to escalate, both in number and sophistication, and having a sound data center security strategy that includes colocation can be the best way to mitigate your threat risk. David Mettler, Vice President of Sales and the Market Director for the US at IO, explains why continually evaluating and updating your data center security strategy is mission critical.
5 Key Considerations for Airflow Containment Design
By implementing an effective airflow containment strategy, it is possible to see optimized cooling system efficiency, improved Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and additional equipment capacity, all without having to expand a data center facility’s footprint. Ward Patton, Critical Environment Specialist at Simplex Isolation Systems, unpacks five key considerations for airflow containment design.
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