The edge is no longer a specific size or as precise of a place as it once was, but just because it has grown more complex doesn’t mean that we can’t distinguish what or where it is. Sean Farney, Director of Data Center Marketing at Kohler Power Systems explores the ever evolving definition of the edge.
Insights: Internet of Things
The Internet of Things will create millions of connected devices, generating data from homes, cars and the vast reaches of industrial infrastructure. Data will be everywhere, and many of the new digital conversations will involve machines talking to other machines. It will have major implications for the data center industry, requiring infrastructure in locations that have not traditionally been business markets for data centers. These technologies will be rolled out over many years, as users gradually wrap their arms around the rapidly-growing universe of protocols, applications and use cases.
7 Ways Your Business Can Benefit From Colocation
To safely store, manage and analyze data, businesses need flexible space and connectivity solutions that can meet existing and future needs without compromising security or compliance. Megan Hofmeyer, Strategic Marketing Director at QTS outlines seven ways in which colocation can allow you to easily scale your business infrastructure to fit your needs.
Embracing Technological Innovation Through Data Center Network Monitoring
Technical professionals don’t generally think of network monitoring and associate it with rich opportunities for innovation and advancement. A new white paper from Park Place Technologies explores how data center network monitoring gives IT the power to embrace innovation.
How High-Speed Fiber Networks Can Future-Proof Data Centers
Data centers are evolving from centralized facilities into a decentralized network of resources tied together by a robust cloud infrastructure. This new special report series, courtesy of Belden, explores on how high-speed fiber networks can future-proof distributed data centers.
Future-Proofing the Distributed Data Center with High-Speed Fiber Networks
Data centers are evolving from centralized facilities into a decentralized network of resources tied together by a robust cloud infrastructure. Belden explains how high-speed fiber networks can future-proof distributed data centers.
The Big City Edge: Dallas is a Hotbed for Edge Computing
Several leading players in the edge market have deployments in Dallas, showcasing innovation and laying the groundwork for future growth. Here’s why the Dallas data center market is a hotbed for edge computing.
Reducing the Risk of Change in the Data Center Industry
Future Facilities assembled a panel of thermal and operational experts to discuss not only the unprecedented changes and challenges facing the industry, but how they’re overcoming them. In this white paper, they explore how embracing change can ultimately reduce the risks of change in the data center industry.
Edge to Core Networking is Critical for IoT Devices, AI and Automation
Workloads are becoming more distributed to support new generation apps and broader use of Machine Learning and AI to help make real-time decisions. Jason Carolan of Flexential explores why networking from the edge to core (and back to the edge) will be critical for IoT, AI, and automation.
Aligning Asset Management in a Fluid IT Landscape
Given that the IT infrastructure of today nearly always spans outside of a centralized model, the challenge is how to manage an incredibly fluid, frequently mixed, and deeply cloud-enabled landscape – from desktop to data center, to edge, to the cloud. Jim Dowson of Park View Managed Services, deliberates how some IT Asset Management (ITAM) tools are no longer fit for purpose in the digital age where agility, speed, access, and automation are pre-requisites for widescale transformational app rollouts.
Satellite Image Data is a Growth Business for Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is providing a delivery platform for new applications from its satellite data customers, including LOTS of earth observation imagery. Here’s a closer look at the AWS cloud’s growing business in space data.
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.