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Rich Miller is the Founder & Editor of Data Center Frontier. He writes about the places where the Internet lives, telling the story of data centers and the people who build them.

Intel, NVIDIA Roll Out New HPC Hardware at SC19

By Rich Miller - November 19, 2019 Leave a Comment

Microsoft Azure's new NDv2 instance can scale up to 800 interconnected NVIDIA V100 GPUs, pictured here. (Image: NVIDIA)

Intel and NVIDIA rolled out new offerings around SC19 in Denver, the annual conference for the high performance computing (HPC) community, which provides a showcase for cutting-edge hardware.

Tagged With: Dell Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA

TMGcore Unveils Robot-Managed Immersion Data Centers

By Rich Miller - November 18, 2019 1 Comment

TMGcore has launched its OTTO system, a modular data center platform using immersion cooling and managed by software and robots. (Image: TMGcore)

TMGcore has launched a modular data center platform that uses robots to swap high-density servers immersed in coolant fluid. The OTTO platform is the most ambitious bid yet for a “lights out ” autonomous data center.

Tagged With: Immersion, Liquid Cooling, Modular, Modular Data Centers, TMGcore, Vertiv

Packet Takes Its ‘Go Anywhere’ Bare Metal Cloud to the Edge

By Rich Miller - November 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

Packet can dep[oy network-dense racks like this one. But it sees future growth in streamlined infrastructure for edge computing. (Photo: Packet)

Packet is bringing its “go anywhere” bare metal cloud to Detroit, where it will work with EdgeConneX to expand Sprint’s Curiosity IoT infrastructure to support the auto industry.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, EdgeConneX, Packet

Report: Data Center Rack Density is Rising, and Heading Higher

By Rich Miller - November 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

Data center rack densities are rising, and large enterprises expect that trend to continue, according to a new report from 451 Research, which suggests a growing opportunity for specialized cooling solutions, including liquid cooling.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, high density data centers, Liquid Cooling

Chicago Data Center Market Boosted By New Economic Incentives

By Rich Miller - November 14, 2019 Leave a Comment

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New economic incentives in Illinois have boosted interest in the Greater Chicago data center market after several years of steady but unspectacular leasing, Our DCF market report offers a deep dive into the market dynamics in Chicago.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market Special Report, Data Center Markets

Data Gravity is Shifting the Data Center Network. But in Which Direction?

By Rich Miller - November 12, 2019 Leave a Comment

A disk tray for a Facebook high-capacity storage server. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Is data gravity drawing data centers nearer to interconnection hubs in major markets, or will a new architecture emerge around massive cloud campuses in remote locations? Digital Realty and CyrusOne offer different takes.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, CyrusOne, Digital Realty

With PlatformDIGITAL, Digital Realty Targets The Enterprise Colo Market

By Rich Miller - November 8, 2019 Leave a Comment

In a clear signal of its growing ambitions in the colocation market, Digital Realty has unveiled PlatformDIGITAL, a broad initiative to sharpen its focus on problem-solving for enterprise customers retooling their IT infrastructure.

Tagged With: Digital Realty, Interconnection

Scott Noteboom Joins Liquid Cooling Startup Submer

By Rich Miller - November 6, 2019 Leave a Comment

Servers immersed in dielectric fluid in a Submer SmartPodX immersion cooling enclosure. (Photot: Submer)

Veteran data center innovator Scott Noteboom has joined immersion cooling startup Submer as Chief Technology Officer. Noteboom says Submer’s technology can evolve as a platform for new machine-optimized data center designs.

Tagged With: Immersion, Liquid Cooling, Submer

Is A Data Center Disaster Inevitable? Lessons from the Nuclear Industry

By Rich Miller - November 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

Steve Fairfax, the President of MTechnology, discussed risk and reliability at the 7x24 Exchange Fall Conference in Phoenix. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Failures at nuclear energy plants offer valuable lessons for the data center industry, and could help reduce the risk of similar headline-making disasters, according to reliability expert Steve Fairfax, who spoke at the 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference.

Tagged With: Reliability

QTS Expands Atlanta Campus to Support 12 MW Hyperscale Deal

By Rich Miller - November 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

QTS Realty has signed a 12-megawatt lease with a hyperscale customer, which will become the anchor tenant in a new data center building on the company’s Metro Atlanta campus.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Atlanta Data Center Market, QTS Realty

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How Automation is the Precursor to AI in the Data Center

How Automation is the Precursor to AI in the Data Center A guest article from CoreSite asserts automation is shifting data centers from reactive to preventative on the way to predictive. Brenda Van der Steen, VP of Marketing at CoreSite, explores how automation acts as not only a precursor to artificial intelligence, but a crucial "step in the journey."

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The Hyperscale Data Center Drives the Global Cloud Revolution

The hyperscale data center is reshaping the global IT landscape, shifting data from on-premises computer rooms and IT closets to massive centralized data center hubs. Explore further how cloud campuses will continue to enable hyperscale operators to rapidly add server capacity and electric power.

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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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Single-Phase UPS Lifecycle Management: Protecting IT Availability

With an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), you have made a significant investment in power protection for your operations, so it doesn’t make sense to risk that investment on batteries that may not work when needed most. This white paper from Vertiv highlights the critical role of the battery within single-phase UPS systems and discusses the options for ensuring power and business continuity, especially as IT networks increase in size and complexity and/or become more dispersed.

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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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Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 15 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution. Meet the DCF team.

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