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Creating Next Level Digital Infrastructure for the Gaming Industry

By Kathy Hitchens - April 8, 2022 Leave a Comment

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The gaming industry is growing at a rapid pace and is hungry for speed. Iron Mountain explores current challenges, drivers, and opportunities around gaming digital infrastructure.

Tagged With: Cloud, Colocation, Data Center Infrastructure, edge, Gaming, Iron Mountain

Environmental Stewardship Begins with Sustainable Infrastructure

By Voices of the Industry - January 28, 2022

The Aligned Ashburn data center in Northern Virginia. (Photo: Aligned)

Sustainability has become a critical corporate value as consumers and even investors across a range of industries. Phill Lawson-Shanks of Aligned explores why sustainable data center infrastructure is critical for a sustainable future.

Tagged With: Aligned, Cloud, data center sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Hyperscale

IT Data Center Priorities: 2022 Survey Results Revealed

By Kathy Hitchens - December 22, 2021

Price and response time continue to be key infrastructure decision drivers for IT professionals. A new white paper from Service Express reveals the results of a recent survey of US IT professionals, including their data center priorities.

Tagged With: Cloud, Coronavirus, Data Center Design, Data Center Infrastructure, Service Express

Start Designing for Portability – Right Now

By Voices of the Industry - December 8, 2021

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Today, IT leaders are familiar with the value and benefits of hybrid hosting models and even agile-friendly environments, but what about application portability? Rob Lerner, Vice President of Sales and Cloud Strategies at DataBank, stresses the concept of application portability and shows how it can help companies generate a win-win-win in terms of cost, performance, and geography.

Tagged With: Cloud, Colocation, DataBank, design, Hyperscale data center

The Outlook on Data Center Sustainability in 2022

By Voices of the Industry - December 6, 2021

Iron Mountain has deployed a 7 megawatt solar array on the roof of its data center in Edison, N.J. (Image: Iron Mountain Data Centers)

It is clear that we no longer need to choose between the planet and profit. The more sustainable solutions are reducing risks and improving profitability for companies, making for good business practices that can also benefit the communities in which we operate. Chris Pennington, Director of Energy and Sustainability at Iron Mountain Data Centers shares thoughts on what will drive data center sustainability efforts in 2022.

Tagged With: Cloud, Colocation, data center sustainability, Iron Mountain

From Data Center to Cloud and Back: Cloud Repatriation & the Edge

By Doug Mohney - November 24, 2021

The network meet-me room inside the NTT Global Data Centers Americas facility in Hillsboro, Oregon. (Photo: NTT)

Enterprises are now faced with two different trends impacting infrastructure needs and requirements: cloud repatriation and edge computing. A new DCF special report courtesy of NTT explores how enterprises are building the most effective ecosystem for their needs by mixing and matching data center, cloud, and colocation.

Tagged With: Cloud, Edge Computing, Hyperscale data center, NTT

How CFD Can Help Evolve Data Center Design

By Bill Kleyman - November 22, 2021

When balancing cloud, data center, and even edge operations, here are some essential services and partner-specific capabilities to know about. A DCF special report courtesy of Panduit looks at how computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis helps you predict what you will need in the near future as well as catch inefficiencies today.

Tagged With: Cloud, Data Center Design, Edge Computing, Panduit

Digital Infrastructure Decision Points: Speed to Deploy, Time to Market

By Bill Kleyman - November 18, 2021

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Pre-configured physical infrastructures are flexible solutions for data center leaders need to find ways to be creative, improve customers’ deployment speed and reduce overall time to market. A DCF special report courtesy of Panduit looks at how pre-configured cloud solutions facilitate the speed of deployment without sacrificing the ability to tweak according to customer needs.

Tagged With: Cloud, Data Center Design, data center efficiency, Panduit

The Data Center and Cloud Balance: New Considerations

By Bill Kleyman - November 5, 2021

By simplifying the stages of data center management, organizations can address the entire lifecycle and identify opportunities for operational efficiencies that can then be incorporated into the design, which influences procurement and deployment on an ongoing basis. (Image: Panduit)

A world powered by digital infrastructure requires new considerations to ensure rapid deployments and optimize application delivery. A DCF special report courtesy of Panduit looks at the new cloud and data center balance demanded by the growth of digital infrastructure.

Tagged With: Cloud, Data Center Design, Data Center Frontier Special Reports, Panduit

How Digital Transformation is Impacting Physical Modular Infrastructure

By Bill Kleyman - November 2, 2021

Modular Infrastructure

The design landscape of the traditional data center has shifted. Modular infrastructure is optimizing resources to improve ROI and speed-to-market. A DCF special report courtesy of ABB looks at How Digital Modernization is Impacting Physical Modular Infrastructure.

Tagged With: ABB, Cloud, Hyperscale, Modular Data Centers

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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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Using Simulation to Validate Cooling Design

Kao Data’s UK data center is designed to sustainably support high performance computing and intensive artificial intelligence. Future Facilities explores how CFD can validated the design, implementation, and operation of their indirect evaporative cooling systems.

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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 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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