Aligned Energy has opened the doors at its first data center in Northern Virginia. Aligned Ashburn will showcase the company’s focus on efficiency and high-density cooling.
Insights: Colocation
Customers can buy data center space in a number of ways. One of the most popular is colocation, tenants buy space by the rack, cabinet or cage. Larger requirements typically use the wholesale data center model, in which a tenant leases a finished suite of “turn-key” raised-floor space. The dividing lines between the two have blurred in recent years, which wholesale providers pursuing smaller deals while colo specialists add suites to their offerings. Both retail colocation providers and companies selling wholesale data center space are pushing into new markets, extending these IT outsourcing services to new audiences.
RagingWire Data Centers Will Rebrand as NTT
RagingWire Data Centers will rebrand as NTT in coming months, as NTT brings together 28 of its affiliate companies into a single entity to serve the global IT marketplace.
Pushing the Limits: The Signature Core Fiber Optic Cabling Systems
The right “future-focused fiber solution” can increase flexibility, agility, scalability, ease of deployment and more. Download the new white paper the explores Panduit’s Signature Core Fiber Optic Cabling Systems and their multimode fiber communication capabilities.
Light into Money – The Future of Fiber Optics in Data Center Networks
This business and technical white paper from Panduit is an exploration of the data center fiber optic networking infrastructure requirements needed to meet current and future demands for data volumes and data rates. Download the new report that explores how fibre optic cable and connectivity systems are a critical path-way that can potentially take today’s 10G – 40G systems through to 100G and 400G, and beyond.
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.
Fiber Connectivity Benefits Silicon Valley Data Center Market
Within the Silicon Valley market, Santa Clara has emerged as the prime location due to power pricing from the municipal utility, Silicon Valley Power. This post, part of a new Data Center Frontier Special Report, takes a look at the current business environment in Silicon Valley for data centers, including disaster risk, power cost, incentives and more.
New Demands Require Organizations to Rethink Data Center Environments
New kinds of demands are requiring modern organizations to rethink their data center environment. That’s according to a new report from DataAire that explores how to use environmental management solutions to build more sustainable, resilient and efficient data centers.
Mitigating Data Center Risk in an Uncertain Economy
Today’s interconnected world poses challenges to protecting data and digital assets. Jim Henry of Iron Mountain Data Centers shares how comprehensive data center compliance and certification programs can help organizations mitigate risk.
New Projects Help Address Growing Silicon Valley Data Center Demand
Silicon Valley is a market of markets, with strong activity in both retail colocation and wholesale data center space. This entry in a new Data Center Frontier special report dissects trends in Silicon Valley data center market demand and supply.
Disaster Planning Helps Mission-Critical Facilities Avoid Outages and Navigate Emergencies
Are you prepared? A new report from Stream Data Centers asks this very question in regards to why managers of critical environments need a solid strategy for disaster planning.
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