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A Look Inside the Rackspace Open Compute Cloud

By Rich Miller - March 3, 2016

High-density cloud servers inside a data center operated by Rackspace. (Photo: Rackspace)

Managed cloud specialist Rackspace has played a key role in adapting Open Compute project designs for multi-tenant data center environments. The Rackspace team provides a look inside its data centers and the process of integrating OCP equipment.

Tagged With: Open Compute, Rackspace

New Data Center Players Enter the Greater Chicago Market

By Rich Miller - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

A data hall inside the newly-opened Aligned ORD-01 data center in Northlake, Ill. in the Greater Chicago market. (Image: Aligned)

Interest in the Greater Chicago data center market is on the rebound, sparked by economic incentives and new projects in both the Downtown and Suburban Chicago markets. That includes new projects from Aligned and Skybox Datacenters.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Chicago Data Center Market Special Report, Cloud, Colocation, Data Center Site Selection, NTT, Raging Wire

Supply and Demand Trends Shape the Dallas Data Center Market

By Rich Miller - January 18, 2022

A data center at Digital Realty's Dallas campus..

Development in the Dallas market is driven by major wholesale data center providers, who have been creating multi-building campuses to support long-term growth. A new DCF special report examines market supply and demand trends.

Tagged With: cloud data centers, Dallas Data Center Market, Dallas Data Center Market Special report, Digital Realty, Hyperscale data center

The Cloud is Better at the Edge

By Voices of the Industry - February 1, 2021

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Phillip Marangella, chief marketing officer of EdgeConneX, highlights how many of today’s CIOs are bringing their cloud strategies to the edge.

Tagged With: Cloud, Cloud Architecture, Edge Computing, EdgeConneX, Hybrid cloud

Data Center Leasing Approached 700 Megawatts in 2020

By Rich Miller - January 19, 2021

A look inside a 6 megawatt data hall in the QTS Data Centers campus near Richmond, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Data center customers leased nearly 700 megawatts of IT capacity in 2020, according to a new report from North American Data Centers. That doubled the prior record from 2018, as the COVID-19 pandemic created extraordinary demand.

Tagged With: Chicago, Leasing, Northern Virginia

Digital Realty Plans Massive Cloud Campus in Northern Virginia

By Rich Miller - August 5, 2020

A data center operated by Digital Realty, the world's largest technology landlord. (Photo: Digital Realty)

Digital Realty plans to build the world’s largest multi-tenant data center campus near Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia. The Digital Dulles campus will create 7.5 million square feet of new data center space in the world’s most active cloud market.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Digital Realty, Dulles Cloud Corridor, Northern Virginia, Northern Virginia Data Center Market Special Report

Executive Insights: Phillip Marangella of EdgeConneX 2Q 2020

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The Data Center Frontier Executive Roundtable features insights from industry executives with lengthy experience in the data center industry. Here’s a look at the insights from Phillip Marangella of EdgeConneX. Currently serving as the Chief Marketing Officer at EdgeConneX, Phillip Marangella has over 20 years of international marketing, strategy, and business development experience working in […]

Enterprise IT Users Weigh Data Center Options for Navigating Pandemic

By Rich Miller - June 23, 2020

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Has the COVID-19 pandemic altered enterprise IT spending and how these companies are provisioning data center space? Our Executive Roundtable looks at the latest trends.

Tagged With: Compass Data Centers, CoreSite, EdgeConneX, Enterprise, Infrastructure Masons, NTT, Sabey Data Centers

Terabytes From Space: Satellite Imaging is Filling Data Centers

By Doug Mohney - April 28, 2020

A new wave of commercial satellite imaging companies are collecting upwards of 100 terabytes (TB) or more per day, filling data centers and enabling granular analysis of trends that drive our economy.

Tagged With: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Satellite

Edge Computing Trends for 2020 & the Next Decade

By Voices of the Industry - January 6, 2020

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Phillip Marangella, CMO for EdgeConneX, explores how edge data centers can help us rearchitect the internet in a way that will support the flood of data and massive traffic flows generated by emerging technologies like AI, cloud gaming, VR/AR and multi-cloud deployments, and more. 

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Edge Computing, Edge Data Centers, EdgeConneX

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Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers

Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers No two are data centers are alike when it comes to design or the applications and data they support with their networking, compute and storage infrastructure. Shad Secrist of Belden outlines the differences between 5 of the most common types of data centers including edge, colocation and hyperscale.

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DCF Spotlight

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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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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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