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.
How Data Center Management Solutions Drive Sustainability and Help Ensure a Climate-Secure World
The data center industry, which gave wings and provided thrust to the digital transformation of business and society during a time of tumultuous change, has another urgent, mission-critical responsibility—to our environment. Eric Xie, Software Application Engineer for Intel Data Center Management Solutions, explores the journey to data center sustainability and net zero carbon emissions, including the role that data management solutions will play.
Virtualization Helps IT Leaders Future-Proof Their Infrastructure
Virtualized networks support multiple physical topologies and can be constructed incrementally over time. Learn how cost, network topology, virtualization can help IT leaders when future-proofing their infrastructure.
The Top 10 Data Center Stories for March 2022
CyrusOne’s next chapter, NVIDIA’s new hardware, and Northern VIrginia’s shortage of development sites were the most popular stories for readers of Data Center Frontier in March 2022.
Digital Twin Technology Deployed at Innovative French Colocation Data Center
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.
Factory Integrated Racks Optimizes Rack-Level Deployments
While some may view building a rack as a DIY kit approach, designing and building a rack that balances complex, interacting elements requires experience and expertise. Joel Wineland, CTO of Rackline, explores the importance of using a factory integrated rack approach for rack-level deployments.
How to Determine Your Path to 400G
Data centers of all sizes should be aware of the how the standards for 400 Gigabit and 800 Gigabit are developing and being implemented. A new white paper from Siemon explores the factors data center owners and operators should consider when determining which path to 400G they should take.
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.
WEBINAR: The State of 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.
Sturdier Servers: Cloud Platforms Say Servers Living Longer, Saving Billions
The top cloud platforms are extending the life of their server and storage gear, citing studies of equipment reliability and refinements in software. AWS now says its servers have a ‘useful life” of five years, while Google and Microsoft expect servers to last for four years.
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.