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Insights: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have arrived in the data center, changing the face of the hyperscale server farm as racks begin to fill with ASICs, GPUs, FPGAs and supercomputers. The race to leverage machine learning is led by the industry’s marquee names, including Google, Facebook and IBM. As usual, the battlefield runs through the data center, with implications for the major cloud platforms and chipmakers like Intel and NVIDIA.

Redefining Mission Critical Infrastructure With People, Processes, and Technology

By Kathy Hitchens - June 17, 2022 Leave a Comment

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The only constant in our world today is change. BCS Data Center Operations explores how people, processes, and technology are redefining mission critical infrastructure operations. 

Tagged With: BCS Data Center Operations, critical infrastructure, Data Center Management, Data Center Operations

NVIDIA Unveils Liquid-Cooled GPUs, With Equinix as Early Adopter

By Rich Miller - May 24, 2022 Leave a Comment

An image of an NVIDIA-liquid cooled PCIe A100 GPU. (Image: NVIDIA)

In a move to enable wider use of liquid cooling, NVIDIA is introducing its first data center GPU with direct chip liquid cooling. One of the early adopters is Equinix, which is test-driving the servers and hopes to implement liquid cooling in a sustainable AI platform.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Equinix, NVIDIA

Meta Using AI to Create Greener Concrete for its Data Centers

By Rich Miller - April 27, 2022 1 Comment

A low-carbon concrete formula is poured at the DeKalb data center location in the construction personnel office space. (Photo: Meta)

Can the servers inside a data center make the walls and floors greener? Researchers at Meta and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using artificial intelligence to reduce the environmental impact of concrete.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Meta

Data Center Migration: How to Optimize the Transition

By Kathy Hitchens - April 27, 2022 Leave a Comment

The exterior of the Flexential data center facility near Nashville. (Photo: Flexential)

No matter the reason for migration, it’s a complicated endeavor, and must be executed without error. Flexential outlines seven migration best practices that will minimize downtime and ensure the migration process runs smoothly.

Tagged With: Cloud, Data Center Design, Data Center Management, Data Center Migration, Flexential

CFD Simulations Validate Data Center Cooling Designs

By Kathy Hitchens - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Kao Data was determined to design their new data centers to be as energy efficient as possible. Future Facilities explores how computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations can be used to validate the design of data center cooling systems.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Cooling, future facilities, Virtualization

Living on the Edge

By Voices of the Industry - March 30, 2022

The Edge

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.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, Edge Data Centers, Kohler Power Systems, machine learning

Digital Twin Technology Deployed at Innovative French Colocation Data Center

By Kathy Hitchens - March 25, 2022

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When looking to the future of the data center industry, the ability to remain agile, accommodate high density and be able to satisfy stringent carbon efficiency goals will be crucial. Future Facilities explores how an innovative French colocation data center provider uses digital twin technology to accomplish this.

Tagged With: Colocation, Cooling, data center sustainability, future facilities, Virtualization

NVIDIA: New Hardware Will Transform Data Centers into AI Factories

By Rich Miller - March 22, 2022

Rows of NVIDIA DGX systems supported by NVIDIA Spectrum-4 , a 400Gbps end-to-end networking platform. (Image: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA today unveiled powerful new GPU hardware to serve as the key building blocks for its vision to transform data centers into “AI factories” unleashing new frontiers in technical computing. That includes the new Hopper architecture and H100 GPUs.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, NVIDIA

Simulation Helps Data Centers Manage Three Key Industry Challenges

By Voices of the Industry - March 17, 2022

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Sherman Ikemoto, Managing Director at Future Facilities explains how simulation can help data center operators manage the accelerating pace of business, rising densities, and energy consumption.

Tagged With: Data Center Design, future facilities, high density data centers, Virtualization

WEBINAR: The State of Data Center Cooling

By Kathy Hitchens - February 15, 2022

Data Center Cooling

To support operations, today’s data centers need a totally different type of infrastructure from what was required just a few years ago. Join Rich Miller and TMGcore’s JD Enright for a webinar on Feb. 23 to learn about the current state of data center cooling.

Tagged With: Data Center Cooling, Data Center Design, Liquid Cooling, machine learning, TMGcore, webinar

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Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance

Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance If a vendor conducts the actual work in your data center, then you or your operator aren’t maximizing your current operating resources and are experiencing incremental cost and risk. Chad Giddings of BCS Data Center Operations, explains the importance of your data center provider having a high-degree of self-performance.

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Top 5 Things to Ask Your Data Center About Compliance

Choosing the right colocation partner is critical, especially when it comes to compliance. When you’re outsourcing your data center needs, understanding your colocation provider’s compliance, security, availability and integrity are of upmost importance. Download the new report from Iron Mountain that provides details on what the company sees as five of the top things to ask your data center provider about compliance 

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Data center modules on display at the recent Edge Congress conference in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Rich Miller)

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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