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SpaceX Gets Connected: Satellite Broadband Meets the Data Center

By Doug Mohney - February 23, 2021 Leave a Comment

Satellite company Telesat is preparing to deploy its Lightspeed network of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites to provide broadband Internet from space. (Photo: Telesat)

SpaceX, Amazon, OneWeb and Telesat all plan to offer low-latency broadband via constellations of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Here’s an overview of the LEO broadband players, strategies and what these services will mean for the data center industry.

Tagged With: Satellite, SpaceX

Cologix Breaks Ground on 1 Million SF Data Center in Ashburn

By Rich Miller - December 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

A row of cabinets inside a data center. (Photo: Cologix)

Cologix says it has broken ground on a large data center campus in Northern Virginia, commencing construction on a planned 1 million square foot campus in the heart of “Data Center Alley” in Ashburn.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Cologix, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia

In Latest Urban Greenfield Project, CoreSite Opens LA3 Data Center

By Rich Miller - December 3, 2020 1 Comment

The new CoreSite LA3 data center in Los Angeles. (Photo: CoreSite)

CoreSite has opened its LA3 data center, adding capacity in the Los Angeles market. CoreSite says it is the city’s first purpose built data center, designed from the ground up as a for storing and delivering data.

Tagged With: CoreSite, Los Angeles

Equinix Expands in Ashburn, Plans Fleet of Four-Story Data Centers

By Rich Miller - November 17, 2020 1 Comment

The Equinix DC21 data center in Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo: Equinix)

Equinix is expanding in Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley, opening a new campus in Ashburn featuring an innovation lab and new design for a series of four-story data centers.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Equinix, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia

Equinix Metal Taps Automation for Speedier Server, Network Deployments

By Rich Miller - October 6, 2020 Leave a Comment

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The Equinix Metal service aims to bring cloud-style automation to colocation, enabling dedicated servers to be provisioned “as a service.” It’s based on tech from the recent acquisition of Packet.

Tagged With: bare metal clouds, Equinix

Study: Data Gravity Will Guide the Global Digital Economy

By Rich Miller - September 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

A technician works inside the Digital Realty data center inside 60 Hudson Street in New York City, a key aggregation point for global data traffic. (Photo: Digital Realty)

Digital Realty believes the growth of the digital economy will be guided by the “data gravity” of massive aggregation points for data, which will be a magnet for applications and infrastructure. New research predicts where this will happen.

Tagged With: Data Center Site Selection, Data Gravity, Digital Realty

DataBank Acquires zColo Data Centers in Major Expansion

By Rich Miller - September 29, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Colocation provider DataBank has agreed to acquire zColo in a deal that dramatically expands DataBank’s data center network, adding 44 data centers across 23 markets in the U.S. and Europe.

Tagged With: Colony Capital, DataBank, Zayo

Beyond Colo: Equinix Repositions as Digital Infrastructure Company

By Rich Miller - September 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

Dense network cabling inside an Equinix interconnection facility in Amsterdam. (Photo: Equinix)

Equinix, the world’s largest provider of colocation and interconnection services, provider, is repositioning itself as “the world’s digital infrastructure company.” It’s the latest wrinkle in the language of the data center industry.

Tagged With: Equinix

Roundtable: The Network Matters, Now More Than Ever

By Rich Miller - September 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of information networks. Our DCF Executive Roundtable identifies the most important trends in data center connectivity and interconnection, and how have they been impacted by the pandemic

Tagged With: Digital Realty, EdgeConneX, Vertiv

Focused on France: Digital Realty Building Big in Paris, Marseille

By Rich Miller - July 6, 2020 Leave a Comment

Digital Realty has created data center campuses from a former helicopter plant (Paris) and submarine base (Marseille) as it boosts its data center capacity and connectivity in France.

Tagged With: Digital Realty, Europe, France, Marseilles, Paris

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

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Distributed and Centralized Bypass Architectures Compared

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