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.
Omicron: A New Resiliency Test for the World and the Cloud
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.
The 4 Elements That Can Make or Break Your Construction Schedule
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.
New Data Center Infrastructure Strategies Top of Mind for IT Management in 2021
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.
Enterprise IT Looks to Cloud, Colo to Drive Transformation
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.
The Eight Trends That Will Shape the Data Center Industry in 2021
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.
What Every Risk Officer Should Think About in 2021
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.
Roundtable Recap: Being Mission-Critical in 2020, Looking Ahead to 2021
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
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.
Executive Roundtable: The Lasting Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 20 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution.