Tony Bishop, Senior Vice President, Platform & Ecosystem Strategy at Digital Realty, explores how to weather today’s perfect storm of digital data, IT leaders must adopt a strategy that implements local network ingress/egress within proximity to centers of data exchange, interconnected to digital ecosystems and tailored to business needs.
CyrusOne Earns Investment Grade Credit Rating
CyrusOne has become the third public data center company to receive an investment grade credit rating, which will lower its borrowing costs and improve its profitability, the company said.
Northern Virginia: Less Hyper, But Still Plenty of Scale
After years of rocket-ship growth, the Northern Virginia data center market is still flying high, but in a slightly lower orbit than in 2018. Industry CEOs, executives and analysts discuss trends in Data Center Alley.
The Future of Hyperscale Computing
At Data Center Frontier, we believe the next 10 to 15 years will be an era of continuous advancement, as next-generation technologies accelerate the digitization of the global economy. Here’s our take on the road ahead for hyperscale.
Women of Mission Critical: Diversity Key to Data Center Industry’s Future
At the CAPRE Women of Mission Critical Conference, women in data center leadership offered insights about the value of diversity, and the need to create more opportunities for women in the sector.
How Hyperscale Customers & Data Centers are Unique
A new Data Center Frontier special report explores the hyperscale data center market, and how its growth has changed how we compute. This excerpt from the report series explores the influence of hyperscale customers, the geography of hyperscale data centers — and what sets them apart.
Optimizing Cloud Connectivity TCO vs Latency
Mitch Fonseca, VP, Data Center Products, Cyxtera, explores how choosing colocation providers with a range of cloud connectivity options and on-demand provisioning to speed time to deployment may be a key way to balance costs with latency.
Who are the Data Center’s Industry’s Hyperscale Players?
A new report on Hyperscale Data Centers, courtesy of Iron Mountain Data Centers, explores how hyperscale computing has changed the supply chain for digital infrastructure, and how this computing shift will evolve. This excerpt dives into the impact of hyperscale computing.
Disaster Planning for Critical Environments in an Unpredictable World
The list of possible disasters seems endless: flood, fire, cyberattack, hurricane, terrorism, blackout and more. Critical engineering expert Kevin Rosen of Stream Data Centers discusses the importance of disaster planning in maintaining uptime and continuing mission-critical operations during and after a crisis.
Reshaping the Global IT Landscape: The Impact of Hyperscale Data Centers
A new report on Hyperscale Data Centers, courtesy of Iron Mountain Data Centers, explores how hyperscale computing has changed the supply chain for digital infrastructure, and how this computing shift will evolve. This excerpt dives into the impact of hyperscale computing.
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.