Very rapid technological change means that future demand for data center capacity is anybody’s guess. And that makes life challenging for even the most sophisticated capacity planners. Aligned Energy’s Andrew Schaap explores how cloud service providers and enterprises alike can mitigate the risk of capacity constraints.
Roundtable: A Look Into the Multi-Cloud Future
Our DCF Executive Roundtable discusses trends in cloud computing and the trend toward customer adoption of multiple cloud platforms.
The Future of Innovation in Data Center Electrical Infrastructure
Our DCF Data Center Executive Roundtable addresses the need for continuing innovation in data center electrical design and infrastructure.
Roundtable: How the Data Center Consolidation is Evolving
What’s driving the consolidation in the data center industry? Our DCF Executive Roundtable panel weighs in on the trends behind the deals, and what lies ahead.
Executive Roundtable: Learning From the British Airways Outage
In our Data Center Frontier Executive Roundtable for the Second Quarter 2017, we ask industry executives how to eliminate data center downtime like the recent outage at British Airways.
The Role of an Adaptive Data Center in an Anytime, Anywhere World
Many trends – from the rising tide of digital business, IoT, and virtual reality to the increasing value of data analytics and the rise of high performance computing – dramatically increase the variability of workloads and the density demanded of the data center. Jakob Carnemark, CTO, CEO at Aligned Energy, explores how increasing and dynamic workloads require an adaptive data center.
Data Center Market Forecast Dallas and Phoenix
Industry analysts such as Forrester, Gartner, and IDC offer a host of tech trends and predictions for the data center industry in 2017. For additional viewpoints of the industry, we turn to real estate advisers JLL and CBRE and their 2016-17 data center market forecast and readouts – highlighting overall findings as well as specific research on the Dallas and Phoenix markets. To learn more about the 2017 tech trends driving demands in Dallas and Phoenix download this white paper.
Data Center Reliability and Efficiency in the Zettabyte Era
No industry goes untouched by the possibilities presented by digital business. According to MIT Sloan research, the companies that are adapting to a digital world are 26% more profitable than their industry peers. To learn more about preparing your company for the zettabyte era download this white paper.
The Silver Lining in the New Lease Accounting Rules – The Data Center
New accounting rules which will affect all leases that are longer than one year – everything from real estate to data centers. Learn about these new rules and how to find the sliver lining when it comes to the data center.
Data Centers Consume 600+ Billion Liters of Water a Year – Here’s How You Can Help Change That
In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Earl Keisling, co-founder and CEO of Inertech LLC, the data center infrastructure technology division of Aligned Energy, discusses why data center water use matters, and what can be done to make our use of this essential resource sustainable.
Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 15 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution.