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Chicago Business Environment Ready for Data Center Expansion

By Rich Miller - December 11, 2019 Leave a Comment

An abundance of fiber providers and several Internet exchanges make Chicago a hub for content delivery services to a large portion of the American Midwest. This excerpt from a new special report on the Greater Chicago data center market highlights the Chicago market’s business environment, including factors like power, hazard risk, incentives, connectivity and more. 

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Chicago Data Center Market Special Report, Data Center Markets, RagingWire Data Centers

Modular Data Centers as a Potential Strategy to ‘Future Proof’ Facilities

By Sarah Rubenoff - December 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

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The speed of disruption and the current data surge cycle continues to demand transformation in the data center industry. The response to these demands bring prefabricated modular (PFM) data centers to the arena – delivering low-risk, high-value implementations with the added benefits of faster delivery and easier on-site assembly. Download the new white paper from Vertiv provides clarity on the specific benefits that PFM data centers can offer to the future of the data center industry. 

Tagged With: Modular Data Centers, Prefabricated Data Centers, Vertiv

Chicago Data Center Development Brings New Construction, Providers

By Rich Miller - December 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

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Moves from CoreSite, RagingWire, STACK Infrastructure, Equinix, Iron Mountain and more have made 2019 a stand-out year for colocation development in Chicago. This excerpt from a new Data Center Frontier Special Report gives a full rundown of highlights of development activity in the Greater Chicago market for 2019.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Chicago Data Center Market Special Report, Data Center Markets, RagingWire Data Centers

Data Center Energy Demand Drives Move Toward Greener Sources

By Sarah Rubenoff - December 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

There is one thing the industry knows for sure. Data center energy usage has been on the way up — for years — and there are certainly no signs of this trend stopping. The priorities have become: No. 1, delivering lower emissions; and No. 2, the option of longer run times and fast-start natural gas generators. INNIO highlights in a new white paper how growing data center electricity demand has paved the way for a new generation of data center energy strategies.

Tagged With: Colocation Provider, data center energy, data center solutions, INNIO, natural gas generators

Chicago Data Center Demand Driven by Cloud & Interconnection Growth

By Rich Miller - November 20, 2019 Leave a Comment

A look at the CoreSite CH1 data center (center) showing its proximity to the Chicago Stock Exchange. (Photo: Rich Miller)

The growth of cloud computing has had significant benefits for the Chicago market. This excerpt from a new Data Center Frontier special report explores what drives supply and demand trends for the data center industry in the downtown Chicago market.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Data Center Markets, NTT, RagingWire Data Centers

Growing the Number of Buildings Where Networks can Exchange Data Traffic

By Sarah Rubenoff - November 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

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Projects like the IEIC (Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee), of which QTS is a member, work to “stimulate transformation, regional economies and internet infrastructure growth globally,” and are designed to deemphasize the heavy reliance of the current concentrated, congested peering points. A new white paper from QTS, “QTS Peering and Data Exchange,”  explores how companies can help the industry proliferate the number of buildings where internet and content networks can exchange traffic and do so in a neutral and open way.

Tagged With: Data Center Network, data exchange, QTS Realty

DC Rectifiers Capable of Delievering 98% Energy Efficiency

By Sarah Rubenoff - November 14, 2019 Leave a Comment

Thanks to technology advancements and components such as gallium nitride (GaN) that enable ultra-high 98% efficiency and improved power densities, power loss can be reduced up to 50% compared to 96% efficient rectifiers. That’s according to a new report from Vertiv that walks readers through a breakthrough in energy efficiency that has the potential to reduce power losses over a wide load range, working to optimize CAPEX and OPEX.

Tagged With: data center energy, Data Center Power, Energy Efficiency, GaN power, rectifiers, Vertiv

Chicago Data Center Market Boosted By New Economic Incentives

By Rich Miller - November 14, 2019 Leave a Comment

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New economic incentives in Illinois have boosted interest in the Greater Chicago data center market after several years of steady but unspectacular leasing, Our DCF market report offers a deep dive into the market dynamics in Chicago.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market Special Report, Data Center Markets

Understanding Power Consumption Can Lead to More Efficient Data Centers

By Sarah Rubenoff - November 13, 2019 Leave a Comment

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How can understanding power consumption lead to a more efficient data center? The team at Raritan aims to answer that very question in a new report that explores power monitoring and metering in data centers.

Tagged With: data center efficiency, Data Center Power, pdus, Raritan

The Hyperscale Data Center Drives the Global Cloud Revolution

By Rich Miller - October 30, 2019 Leave a Comment

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The hyperscale data center is reshaping the global IT landscape, shifting data from on-premises computer rooms and IT closets to massive centralized data center hubs. Explore further how cloud campuses will continue to enable hyperscale operators to rapidly add server capacity and electric power.

Tagged With: cloud computing, DCF Spotlight #1, Hyperscale, Hyperscale data center, Iron Mountain

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How Automation is the Precursor to AI in the Data Center

How Automation is the Precursor to AI in the Data Center A guest article from CoreSite asserts automation is shifting data centers from reactive to preventative on the way to predictive. Brenda Van der Steen, VP of Marketing at CoreSite, explores how automation acts as not only a precursor to artificial intelligence, but a crucial "step in the journey."

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The Hyperscale Data Center Drives the Global Cloud Revolution

The hyperscale data center is reshaping the global IT landscape, shifting data from on-premises computer rooms and IT closets to massive centralized data center hubs. Explore further how cloud campuses will continue to enable hyperscale operators to rapidly add server capacity and electric power.

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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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Empower Your Edge Computing — for the Cloud

Today, colocation providers like EdgeConneX are working with leading cloud and IT service providers to bring their solutions to the edge, deployed in close proximity to enterprises, so they can easily access secure, local connectivity to the cloud for any and all of their workloads. Download the new white paper from EdgeConnex exploring edge computing for the cloud that offers an in-depth look at what factors have driven the cloud to the mainstream, the challenges to enterprise cloud adoption, security concerns, spend, the benefits of an integrated cloud solution and more.

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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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