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IT Data Center Priorities: 2022 Survey Results Revealed

By Kathy Hitchens - December 22, 2021

Price and response time continue to be key infrastructure decision drivers for IT professionals. A new white paper from Service Express reveals the results of a recent survey of US IT professionals, including their data center priorities.

Tagged With: Cloud, Coronavirus, Data Center Design, Data Center Infrastructure, Service Express

Omicron: A New Resiliency Test for the World and the Cloud

By Rich Miller - November 29, 2021

What might the Omicron variant mean to the data center sector and cloud computing? That’s our topic today on the DCF Show podcast, where we look at three areas of potential business impact: travel restrictions, supply chain disruptions, and the progress of the enterprise IT recovery.

Tagged With: COVID-Impact, Data Center Events, Enterprise

The 4 Elements That Can Make or Break Your Construction Schedule

By Voices of the Industry - August 13, 2021

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One major contributor to the increased speed of data center construction is modularization. Nate Harper, Marketing and Inside Sales Manager at ProLift Rigging, discusses how logistics, storage, transportation, and on-site installation can make or break a modular data center’s construction schedule.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Modular Data Centers, ProLift Rigging Co.

New Data Center Infrastructure Strategies Top of Mind for IT Management in 2021

By Sarah Rubenoff - February 8, 2021

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A new report from Service Express explores the current outlook on strategic planning for data center infrastructure, identifies the top priorities and challenges that IT professionals will encounter in the next 12-month cycle, and shares insights into workload deployment and cost reduction methods. 

Tagged With: COVID-Impact, Data Center Infrastructure, IT management, Service Express, white paper

Enterprise IT Looks to Cloud, Colo to Drive Transformation

By Rich Miller - January 29, 2021

What’s ahead for the data center industry in 2021? On the Data Center Frontier Show Podcast, we discuss how enterprise IT will adapt to the changed landscape created by the COVID19 pandemic, and why this will matter to data center professionals and end users.

Tagged With: Enterprise, enterprise data center

The Eight Trends That Will Shape the Data Center Industry in 2021

By Rich Miller - January 6, 2021

Servers inside a Facebook hyperscale data center in North Carolina. (Photo: Rich Miller)

What’s ahead for the data center industry? We’ve identified eight themes that will shape the data center business in 2021. The big themes: Pandemic response, sustainability and lots of M&A.

Tagged With: Edge Data Centers, energy storage, Enterprise, Lithium-Ion Batteries

What Every Risk Officer Should Think About in 2021

By Voices of the Industry - December 28, 2020

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John Hevey, Vice President, Corporate Technical Service at BCS Data Center Operations, highlights what a Risk Officer should be focusing on as a turbulent year in the data industry and beyond comes to a close. 

Tagged With: BCS Data Center Operations, Colocation, Coronavirus, risk mitigation

Roundtable Recap: Being Mission-Critical in 2020, Looking Ahead to 2021

By Rich Miller - December 18, 2020

Our Data Center Executive Roundtable experts review the role of data centers in surviving the pandemic, and looks ahead to 2021. Insights from Intel, Sabey Data Centers, Chatsworth Products, NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Iron Mountain, Nortek Air Solutions, and Infrastructure Masons.

The Goldilocks Solution for Healthcare Data Centers Pushed Off-Premise

By Voices of the Industry - December 14, 2020

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Anthony Bolner, Executive Vice President and Partner at Stream Data Centers, shares how IT infrastructure leaders at large healthcare enterprises are finding a ‘just-right’ solution in build-to-suit with a provider flexible to their requirements.

Tagged With: Coronavirus, healthcare, off-premises data center, Stream Data Centers

Executive Roundtable: The Lasting Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Rich Miller - December 14, 2020

Our 21st Data Center Executive Roundtable kicks off as our seven expert panelists assess the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on how data centers are built, operated and staffed.

Tagged With: Chatsworth Products, Infrastructure Masons, Intel DCM, Iron Mountain, Nortek, NTT, Sabey Data Centers

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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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Sustainable Power Generation: Kohler’s Pursuit of Clean Energy Solutions

Driven in part by new regulations, customer demand, and internal stakeholders, a growing number of organizations are recognizing that they have a role to play in mitigating the climate crisis. Kohler examines how sustainable power generation can help balance the need for emergency power with the climate emergency.

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DCF Spotlight

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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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