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Automating Fiber Cross Connects: Ready for Today, Prepared for Tomorrow

By Voices of the Industry - February 3, 2021

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Bob Shine, VP Marketing and Product Management at Telescent, explores the ins and outs of automating fiber and how new systems are arising to successfully automate the fiber layer. 

Tagged With: automation, Fiber, fiber cross connects, telescent

The Pandemic May Accelerate the Arrival of the Lights-Out Data Center

By Rich Miller - September 24, 2020

We conclude our DCF Executive Roundtable with a discussion of the future of data center automation, and how it is being shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Several panelists believe the “lights-out” data center is drawing closer.

Tagged With: automation, CoreSite, Digital Realty, EdgeConneX, Infrastructure Masons, Nortek, Vertiv

Pandemic Prompts New Urgency for AI, Software Automation in Data Centers

By Rich Miller - May 26, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic will drive innovation in data center operations, forcing companies to embrace automation to manage some duties that currently rely on  close human interaction. The first in a series on innovation to address pandemic-driven challenges.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, automation, Coronavirus, DCIM, DCIM software

Bringing Automation to Physical Fiber Cross Connects

By Voices of the Industry - April 9, 2020

Bob Shine, VP of Product Management and Marketing at Telescent, explores ways to automate physical fiber cross connects. Automation ensures the integrity of the testing process, connectivity records and measurement results.

Tagged With: automation, Data Center Network, Fiber Optic Cables, Interconnection, telescent

The New Focus on Automation: Making IT Operations Manageable

By Kayla Matthews - April 3, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has underscored the benefits of automation, including remote IT management and AI-driven security. New data from Cisco illustrates how data growth is testing the limits of manual network management.

Tagged With: automation

Automating Data Center Power Planning with DCIM Software

By Voices of the Industry - December 16, 2019

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Herman Chan, President of Sunbird Software, explores how data center infrastructure management tools DCIM can help take “the manual effort, inaccuracy, and risk out of data center power capacity planning.”

Tagged With: AI, automation, data center planning, DCIM, DCIM software, machine learning, Sunbird Software

How Automation is the Precursor to AI in the Data Center

By Voices of the Industry - December 9, 2019

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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.”

Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, automation, CoreSite

When and Where to Look For Automation Opportunities in the Data Center

By Voices of the Industry - June 22, 2017

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The promise of automation looms large over many industries in 2017. In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Jeff Klaus, GM of Data Center Software Solutions at Intel DCM, explores where to look for automation opportunities in the data center.

Tagged With: automation, Data Center, Intel DCM

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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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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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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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