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Earth Day 2021: Data Centers Adopt Renewables, Innovate on Efficiency

By Colleen Miller - April 22, 2021

Earth Day 2021 is focusing on “Restore Our Earth.” Here’s a look at how the data center industry continues to expand its use of green technologies, renewable energy and innovations in efficiency.

Tagged With: Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

Earth Day 2021: Data Centers Move Beyond Power to Be More Sustainable

By Colleen Miller - April 21, 2021

The data center industry is getting greener, and moving beyond renewable power to embrace technologies to conserve water, build more efficiently and use batteries with less environmental impact. For Earth Day 2021, DCF shares recent coverage of these initiatives.

Tagged With: Batteries, Generators, Water

The Visual Edge: A Closer Look at Edge Data Center Design

By Colleen Miller - November 6, 2020

What does edge computing infrastructure look like? Here’s a video of some of the leading designs from players in the emerging market for edge data centers, plus links to our DCF social channels for images and video.

Tagged With: Edge Computing

DCF Podcast: Trends in Subsea Cables, And Why They Matter

By Colleen Miller - August 6, 2020

In a new Data Center Frontier Show Podcast, host Rich Miller looks at how cloud growth is reshaping how data travels around the globe, and the role of undersea cables in these trends.

Tagged With: Google, Subsea Cables, Undersea Cables

DCF Podcast: Data Center Cooling Trends

By Colleen Miller - July 15, 2020

DCF Podcast Host Rich Miller talks with cooling expert Kevin Facinelli, President, Data Center Cooling at Nortek Air Solutions about the challenges of keeping servers cool as data centers get larger and taller. Also: Will vacant office space house servers in the post-COVID economy?

Tagged With: Cooling, Nortek

DCF Show: 2020 Trends – Data Tonnage & The AI Arms Race

By Colleen Miller - February 24, 2020

Our 2020 podcast season kicks off with a series of shows based on DCF’s annual forecast, which we call “Eight Trends That Will Shape the Data Center in 2020.”

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Podcast

DCF Podcast: Robots in the Data Center

By Colleen Miller - November 26, 2019

The robot-driven data center is closer to reality with the introduction of a robotic system to swap servers from a tank of cooling liquid. Is this another step towards more “lights out” data centers? Rich Miller, explores the past, present and future of robots in the data center.

Tagged With: Immersion, Podcast, Robotics, Submer, TMGcore

DCF Podcast: Data Center Merger Mania: Updates on Digital Realty, CyrusOne

By Colleen Miller - November 4, 2019

Everyone’s talking about data center merger mania. In this episode, host Rich Miller discusses two deals: one that happened (Digital-Realty-Interxion) and one that didn’t (CyrusOne).

DCF Podcast: The Self-Driving Future is Paved with Data

By Colleen Miller - October 28, 2019

The road to the self-driving car of the future will be one where data, hardware and data centers play a major role. Autonomous vehicles are the equivalent of supercomputers rolling down the highway, creating a mind-boggling amount of data. Rich Miller, the founder and editor of Data Center Frontier, takes listeners through what the impact of autonomous vehicles will have on infrastructure and data centers.

DCF Podcast: Ashburn, Virginia – Where the Cloud Meets the Earth

By Colleen Miller - October 7, 2019

Northern Virginia is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world. Our host Rich Miller explains how Ashburn became Data Center Alley and what’s going on there today.

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Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center The data center industry continues to experience significant global supply chain problems. Brett Williams of Service Express, explores the importance of leveraging the secondary hardware market to overcome supply chain roadblocks.

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The Business Case for Data Center Geo Diversity

Geo diversity, or shortening the distance that your data travels, will allow you to reaching your user bases more effectively, and create better customer experiences. This white paper from Venyu explains the benefits of a geo-diverse data center partner.

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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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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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Charting the future of data centers and cloud computing. We write about what’s next for the Internet, and the innovations that will take us there. We tell the story of the digital economy through the data center facilities that power cloud computing and the people who build them. Read more ...
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Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 20 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution. Meet the DCF team.

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