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Manufacturers Must Manage an Explosion of Industry Data – Is Edge Computing the Answer?

By Voices of the Industry - December 21, 2020

An interior view of a Switch Edge MOD 15 modular data center. (Image: Switch)

Carsten Baumann, director of strategic initiatives and solution architect at Schneider Electric, explores the role of edge computing in handling today’s big data explosion in the manufacturing sector. 

Tagged With: Big Data, Edge Computing, Schneider Electric

Digital Innovation Coming to Data Centers Via New Initiatives & Development Environments

By Sarah Rubenoff - April 20, 2020

Power Quality Monitoring

A new report from QTS points out that the data center industry may have “lagged behind the curve” when it comes to digital innovation. But that may be changing, as business needs and customer expectations continue to ramp up and change at a rapid pace.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Colocation, machine learning, QTS

Powering AI in the Enterprise

By Voices of the Industry - March 26, 2020

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Gerry Fassig, Vice President, Sales, at CoreSite, explores how best to power AI and machine learning across a variety 0f industries and sectors through data and processing power. 

Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, CoreSite

DCF Show: 2020 Trends – Data Tonnage & The AI Arms Race

By Colleen Miller - February 24, 2020

Our 2020 podcast season kicks off with a series of shows based on DCF’s annual forecast, which we call “Eight Trends That Will Shape the Data Center in 2020.”

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Podcast

New Technology Shifting the Distributed IT and Edge Management Landscape

By Sarah Rubenoff - February 10, 2020

Distributed IT

The role of distributed IT is shifting. This is true for retail locations, branch offices, university campuses or manufacturing plants, and has been for a while. But these days, with almost every organization becoming more digitized, “the number of these sites is increasing, and their role is changing,” said Vertiv. A new white paper from Vertiv outlines how connectivity, cloud computing, big data and mobile applications can work together to enable a new service paradigm for remote sites that increases visibility, reduces downtime and supports optimization of these vital IT resources.

Tagged With: Big Data, cloud computing, cloud connectivity, Edge Computing, Vertiv

Data Centers Find Their Edge: DCIM Solutions Prove Key

By Voices of the Industry - September 3, 2019

IT infrastructure

Jeff Klaus, General Manager of Intel Data Center Management Solutions, explores how for remote facilities at the edge of the network, DCIM Solutions are key to supporting enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) and big data.

Tagged With: Big Data, DCIM, DCIM software, Intel, IOT

What Mary Meeker Predicts About the Future of Data Centers

By Rich Miller - June 13, 2019

Servers inside a Facebook hyperscale data center in North Carolina. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Many of the key trends highlighted by venture capitalist Mary Meeker in her Internet Trends report will boost demand for data centers and cloud computing.

Tagged With: Big Data, BigData, Data

Data Tonnage: Managing the Coming M2M Tsunami

By Rich Miller - November 28, 2018

edge computing

The growth of machine-to-machine (M2M) data is projected to escalate rapidly in the next five years. Edge computing can play an important role in data ingest, accepting data from devices and creating a richer two-way flow of information across the network.

Tagged With: Big Data, Edge Computing, M2M

Natural Language Processing: The Bridge Between Man and Machine

By Bill Kleyman - October 8, 2018

The NVIDIA DGX-1 is packed with 8 Tesla P100 GPUs, providing 170 teraflops of computing power in a 3U form factor. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Natural language processing (NLP) is a type of artificial intelligence that allows machines to understand meaning behind various speech processes. Bill Kleyman looks at considerations in using NLP in your IT operations.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data

A Deep Dive Into Data Lakes

By Bill Kleyman - August 29, 2018

Data lakes are centralized storage and data repositories that allow you to work with a variety of different types of data. Bill Kleyman looks at why data lakes matter, and how you can use them in your business.

Tagged With: Big Data, Data Lakes

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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 Operations Redefined Through People, Processes and Technology

Data center operations are on the verge of a new normal, and operators have the chance to redefine the industry as it evolves to meet the changing needs of its customers. A new white paper by BCS presents strategic solutions for safeguarding mission critical infrastructure in data centers during uncertain times.

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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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