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Insights: Data Center Design

Data Center Frontier charts the future of data centers and cloud computing. We track the latest developments in data center design, providing updates on the innovations and best practices for creating energy efficient and sustainable data centers.

Our thesis: New markets will require new approaches to datacenter design, creating facilities that can operate with very different climate and energy profiles. This will require major innovation in the way data centers are designed, built and powered.

Our stories provide insights into the role of modular and pre-fabricated data center designs, the impact of the Open Compute Project and open hardware movement, and new approaches to creating data center racks and servers.

Voices of 2020: The Top 10 Voices of the Industry Columns

By Sarah Rubenoff - December 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Education is part of our mission at Data Center Frontier. In our Voices of the Industry feature, we share the experience of data center executives on the front lines of innovation. Here’s a look at the 10 most popular Voices columns for 2020.

Tagged With: colocation industry trends, Voice of the Industry

AWS Designs In-Rack Micro UPS Units For a More Efficient Cloud

By Rich Miller - December 11, 2020 2 Comments

Amazon Senior VP of Infrastructure Peter DeSantis shares an image of a Mac Mini server running within an AWS data center during this week's re;Invent 2020 conference. (Image: AWS)

Amazon Web Services has begun designing its own rack-level Micro UPS units for its data centers, eliminating a centralized UPS in a move that will dramatically improve the power efficiency of its cloud computing operations.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, UPS

What Your Cage Says About Your Company

By Voices of the Industry - December 9, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Chris Williams, Business Development Manager at Emcor Enclosures  discusses the positive impact managers and operators will see by selecting a well-designed high quality cage as an additional layer of physical security for their data center, regardless of size or scale.

Tagged With: crenlo, data center cages, Emcor Enclosures

The Visual Edge: A Closer Look at Edge Data Center Design

By Colleen Miller - November 6, 2020 Leave a Comment

What does edge computing infrastructure look like? Here’s a video of some of the leading designs from players in the emerging market for edge data centers, plus links to our DCF social channels for images and video.

Tagged With: Edge Computing

Designing for Density: AI Brings Denser Racks into Multi-Tenant Data Centers

By Rich Miller - November 2, 2020 2 Comments

Digital Realty's Building P in Ashburn is among the multi-tenant data center facilities housing different types of workloads. (Photo: Digital Realty)

The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses challenges for data center design, as high-density racks of GPUs require low-latency access to massive datasets, including some in the cloud.

Tagged With: Colovore, Digital Realty, GPUs, high density data centers, NVIDIA

Prime Data Centers Plans Four-Story Project in Santa Clara

By Rich Miller - October 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

An illustration of the planned Prime Data Centers facility in Santa Clara. (Image: Prime)

Wholesale data center developer Prime Data Centers will enter the Silicon Valley market with a project in Santa Clara, the company said this week.

Tagged With: Prime Data Centers, Santa Clara, Silicon Valley

Using Out-of-Band Real-Time Power, Thermal, and Utilization Analysis in HPC

By Voices of the Industry - October 5, 2020 1 Comment

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George Clement, Senior Application Engineer, from Intel,  highlights a case study that shows the importance of data center management to gain greater insight into power demand, thermal efficiency, server utilization, and capacity planning in their HPC environment. 

Tagged With: DCM, HPC, Intel, thermal control

4 Steps to a Successful Build-to-Suit Data Center (Hint: Relationships Matter)

By Voices of the Industry - September 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Michael Lahoud, Chief Operating Officer and Partner at Stream Data Centers, highlights four steps to ensure successful “marriages” or data center partnerships and  for both client and provider, particularly the data center build-operate relationship. 

Tagged With: build-to-suit data centers, Colocation, Data Center Construction, data center partnerships, Stream Data Centers

Integral Coupling, the Busway & More Highlighted in New Anord Mardix Report

By Sarah Rubenoff - September 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

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The busway. From starting within the automotive industry in the 1930’s and now evolving to widespread use in data centers, the technology has made its place. A new report from Anord Mardix focused on busways aims to contextualize that evolution and present a fresh approach for 2020 and further. According to the company, “busway offers a high density, flexible power distribution solution for many applications.”

Tagged With: Anord Mardix, busway, Data Center Power, Rack Power Distribution

DCF Webinar: What it Takes to Build the ‘Digital Tomorrow’

By Sarah Rubenoff - September 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

It’s a new landscape, with challenges posed by the pandemic as well as concerns about climate change. Innovation in advanced connectivity, healthcare solutions, and energy storage offers significant opportunities to harness new ways of thinking to help your organization succeed in this fast-moving world while meeting sustainability and resiliency goals. Join Rich Miller, Bill Kleyman and other industry experts for this webinar on September 30 at 2 ET.

Tagged With: Data Center Strategy, Switch Data Centers, webinar

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Voices of the Industry

How to Simplify Distributed IT Management? Focus on the Tools to Improve Flexibility and Efficiency

How to Simplify Distributed IT Management? Focus on the Tools to Improve Flexibility and Efficiency Russell Senesac, Director of Data Center Strategy at Schneider Electric, explores how to address distributed IT management and the tools available today.

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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Data Center Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic presents strategic challenges for the data center and cloud computing sectors. Data Center Frontier provides a one-stop resource for the latest news and analysis for decision-makers navigating this complex new landscape.

An aerial view of major facilities in Data Center Alley in Ashburn, Virginia. (Image: Loudoun County)

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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Utah Tax Advantages Can Mean Millions in Savings for Salt Lake City Data Center Clients

Utah’s tax incentives for data centers are among the most attractive in the nation. This white paper from Aligned Energy explores the benefits of Utah tax incentives for data center clients, and the savings available for Salt Lake City data centers and clients. 

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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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Charting the future of data centers and cloud computing. We write about what’s next for the Internet, and the innovations that will take us there. We tell the story of the digital economy through the data center facilities that power cloud computing and the people who build them. Read more ...
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