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The Evolution of Edge Computing and the Significance of Micro and Modular Data Centers

By Voices of the Industry - February 7, 2019 Leave a Comment

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The constant challenge of meeting the ever-growing demand for speed or bandwidth and lowering or eliminating the latency has paved the way for the ‘Evolution of Edge Computing’ to address the needs of the ‘Always Connected customer’. STULZ marketing manager Manohar Reddy focuses on how the micro and modular data centers are taking center stage to meet the growing Edge computing infrastructure demand. 

Tagged With: Data Center Design, Data Center Infrastructure, Edge Computing, micro data centers, Modular Data Centers, Stulz

Edge, IoT Likely to Boost Fortunes of Modular Data Centers

By Rich Miller - January 20, 2017 2 Comments

An overhead view of a data hall filled with modules at the IO Phoenix data center. (Image: IO)

The growth of edge computing and the IoT may boost adoptions of modular data centers, which allow operators to deploy infrastructure in smaller chunks, according to our panel of data center experts.

Tagged With: Aligned Energy, BASELAYER, Digital Realty, Fortrust, IO, Modular Data Centers

The Past, Present and Future of Modular Data Centers

By Voices of the Industry - December 20, 2016 Leave a Comment

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In this week’s Voices of the Industry, David Shepard EVP, General Manager of the BASELAYER’s Anywhere hardware division, looks over the past, present and future of modular data centers.

Tagged With: BASELAYER, MDCs, Modular Data Centers

Modular Strategies Helping Deploy Data Centers Faster

By Rich Miller - November 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

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Our Executive Roundtable panel examines the challenge of rapid deployment of data center capacity for major cloud computing providers, and the steps the industry is taking to meet these demands.

Tagged With: BASELAYER, Chatsworth Products, Emerson Network Power, Fortrust, Modular Data Centers, RagingWire Data Centers

Data Center Job Spotlight: Engineering Head for Mission Critical Facilities

By Sarah Rubenoff - January 14, 2019 Leave a Comment

A data hall inside the new Equinix DC12 data center in Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo: Equinix)

Data Center Frontier’s first job spotlight of 2019 features an opening for a Engineering Department Head for Mission Critical Facilities in the booming Northern Virginia market. This month’s lineup also includes a sales manager position in Ashburn, Va., a Senior Commissioning Engineer role in Omaha, Neb., and more.

Tagged With: critical facilities, Data Center Jobs, Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting

Compass Datacenters Preps Land for Phoenix Campus

By Rich Miller - January 14, 2019 Leave a Comment

A fan wall inside the cooling plenum in a Compass Datacenters facility in Allen, Texas. The fans are fed by cool air from a Kyoto Cooling unit. (Image: Compass Datacenters)

Compass Datacenters has quietly acquired more than 200 acres of land in Goodyear, Arizona, where it has capacity to build up to 350 megawatts of data center capacity.

Tagged With: Compass Data Centers, Hyperscale, Phoenix, Phoenix Data Center Market

The Eight Trends That Will Shape the Data Center Industry in 2019

By Rich Miller - January 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

Hyperscale deployments and liquid cooling are two of the trends we're watching for 2019. You can see both in this data hall at a LinkedIn facility in Hillsboro, Oregon. (Photo: LinkedIn)

At Data Center Frontier, we see eight themes that will shape the data center business in 2019. Scale gets even more hyper, staffing challenges emerge, and market niches proliferate.

Tagged With: Data Center Careers, Data Center Construction, Edge Computing, Hyperscale

Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

By Bill Kleyman - November 19, 2018 Leave a Comment

Data center modules on display at the recent Edge Congress conference in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

Tagged With: DCF Spotlight #2, edge, Edge Computing, Edge Data Centers, Internet of Things

Vertical Data Centers: ‘Watts Per Acre’ Guides Construction Economics

By Rich Miller - November 6, 2018 Leave a Comment

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As developers build more vertical data centers, will “watts per acre” become the hot new metric? The 7×24 Exchange conference featured a detailed analysis of the economics of multi-story data centers.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Vertical Data Centers

Microsoft CEO Nadella: Underwater Data Centers Are the Future

By Rich Miller - November 2, 2018 2 Comments

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company’s underwater data center, known as Project Natick, could play a key role in Microsoft’s future infrastructure.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, Microsoft, Project Natick

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Top 2019 Trends Impacting the World's Escalating Demand for Data and Power

Top 2019 Trends Impacting the World\'s Escalating Demand for Data and Power Jim Witham, CEO of GaN Systems, explores the top 2019 data cent power trends, and highlights new perspectives and approaches to thinking about and addressing the power needs of the diverse technology that surrounds us. 

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GaN Rising as Power Chain Option as Energy Demand, Cost Grows

Data center leaders are exploring the potential of using Gallium nitride (GaN) in power conversion equipment to increase efficiency. Although GaN has been around for a while, it’s relatively new to the data center world.

Data center modules on display at the recent Edge Congress conference in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Edge Computing Archetypes

Defining Four Edge Computing Archetypes and their Technology Requirements

Over the last several years, “edge computing” has become one of the most talked about trends in IT, and for good reason. Nearly every industry is recognizing the limitations of supporting users and emerging technologies through centralized IT infrastructures and is pushing storage and computing closer to users and devices. Download the new white paper from Vertiv to learn more about edge computing and the four edge archetypes the company has identified.

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