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A Sensible Path to Data Center Sustainability

By Paul Gillin - May 16, 2022 Leave a Comment

sustinabtility

New technologies are driving data center energy demand, while customers seek to reducing energy consumption. Managing rapid growth and improving data center sustainability aren’t mutually exclusive goals, according to Kohler.

Tagged With: data center sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Hyperscale, Kohler Power Systems

A New Framework for Future-Proofing Your IT Ecosystem

By Kathy Hitchens - April 11, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Amid a cascade of virus variants, natural disasters, and technological changes, it’s beginning to seem like a “new normal” may not even exist. A new white paper from Venyu provides IT leaders with a framework for future-proofing their IT ecosystem in uncertain times.

Tagged With: Cloud, data center partnerships, IT management, technology ecosystems, Venyu

The Future of Fire Protection for Battery Energy Storage Systems

By Voices of the Industry - February 18, 2022

Battery Energy Storage

There are technologies and techniques that can mitigate or avoid battery thermal runaway if threat warning signs are detected early. Steven Joseph of Viking Integrated Safety, explores options for reliable fire protection for battery energy storage systems.

Tagged With: data center fire suppression, Energy, Storage, Viking Integrated Safety

Data Center of the Future: Equinix Test-Drives New Power, Cooling Solutions

By Rich Miller - January 20, 2022

An Equinix data center in Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo: Equinix)

Equinix has created a Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) in Ashburn where it operates liquid-cooled servers supported by fuel cells, sodium-ion batteries and intelligent power management. The facility is part of Equinix’s Data Center of the Future initiative to test-drive new technology.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Equinix, Liquid Cooling, Natron, Software Defined Power, Virtual Power Systems, ZutaCore

A Look at the Edge from the Perspective of SaaS and Content Providers

By Voices of the Industry - October 29, 2021

5G networks

Raul Martynek, CEO, DataBank, explains why software-as-a-service and content providers need the ability to provision services from the edge as close as possible to their customers to capitalize on 5G technologies and deliver low-latency experiences for customers.

Tagged With: 5G, Colocation, DataBank, Edge Computing

How to Avoid Unnecessary Hardware Refreshes

By Voices of the Industry - October 6, 2021

Hardware refreshes

How do you determine if a slated hardware refresh is really essential? Paul Mercina, Director of Product Management for Park Place Technologies, shares three key considerations that may help you avoid unnecessary IT hardware refreshes.

Tagged With: Data Center Management, hardware, park place technologies, Servers

Digital Transformation, Remote Work and Other Market Trends Lead to Big Changes for IT Management Systems

By Voices of the Industry - September 22, 2021

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Angie McMillin, vice president and general manager, IT Systems at Vertiv, discusses how a scalable IT management platform can address the challenges IT managers are facing as digitization, remote work and other trends drive industry change.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, IT management, Servers, Vertiv

Database Optimization: Emerging Technologies to Solve Performance Challenges

By Voices of the Industry - July 16, 2021

database management

With the increased focus on infrastructure modernization, databases have started migrating from on-prem to the cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud. Martin Wielomski, Director of Product Management at phoenixNAP Global IT Services, discusses how emerging technology like Optane DCPMM can solve database management challenges.

Tagged With: Cloud, Data Center Storage, data management, phoenixNAP

Taking Your Customer Experience to the Next Level

By Voices of the Industry - April 30, 2021

In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Nicola Buckley, Executive Vice President, Global Service Delivery at Park Place Technologies, contemplates how the customer experience should be a primary driver for business growth.  

Tagged With: customer experience, CX, park place technologies

IT Asset Discovery Automation Solves Infrastructure Chaos

By Kathy Hitchens - March 8, 2021

As the modern IT environment continues to evolve in scope and complexity, organizations face critical challenges around IT asset discovery and management. Get the report that explores how an automated and comprehensive look at an organization’s IT assets saves time, reduces risks, maximizes resources, and more.

Tagged With: Asset discovery, asset management, IT Infrastructure, park place technologies

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Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers

Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers No two are data centers are alike when it comes to design or the applications and data they support with their networking, compute and storage infrastructure. Shad Secrist of Belden outlines the differences between 5 of the most common types of data centers including edge, colocation and hyperscale.

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Achieving Energy Efficiency Goals in Data Centers

One of the challenges global data centers currently face is the need to meet the increased processing and storage needs of their customers while also making their operations more energy efficient and sustainable. Advanced Energy explores methods global data centers can employ to reduce power consumption and meet energy efficiency goals.

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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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