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Focus on What’s Important to Your Organization When Choosing a Data Center Provider

By Sarah Rubenoff - December 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

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In this increasingly data-driven world, protecting your clients’ and businesses’ data is becoming increasingly important. That’s why choosing the right colocation partner to house, protect and connect critical IT infrastructure is a big decision. A new report from Iron Mountain reviews eight considerations and related questions to review before choosing a data provider. 

Tagged With: Colocation Provider, data center provider, Iron Mountain

Data Center Visibility Drives Cost Savings, Time Efficiencies for Alvarez & Marsal

By Sarah Rubenoff - July 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

Power Quality Monitoring

A new case study from QTS explores how Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) — which  helps companies around the world address complex business issues to boost their productivity and performance — used integrating colocation services with business operations to increase data center visibility drives cost savings and time efficiencies.

Tagged With: Colocation, Colocation Provider, colocation services, QTS

What to Consider When Choosing a Colocation Data Center Facility

By Sarah Rubenoff - July 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

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The colocation data center is rising in popularity, and a new e-book from Sabey Data Centers explores why these have  become popular alternatives to proprietary facilities for several key reasons.

Tagged With: Colocation, Colocation Provider, data center facility, Sabey Data Centers

How to Approach Your Data Center Provider About Social & Environmental Responsibility

By Sarah Rubenoff - May 18, 2020 1 Comment

Environmental Responsibility

Ultimately, making good choices surrounding energy sourcing can help save money, reduce risks, and contribute to solutions to today’s environmental and social responsibility challenges. A new white paper from Iron Mountain explores further how to turn a potential sustainability liability into an opportunity for your organization, and what questions to make sure to ask your data center provider.

Tagged With: Colocation, Colocation Provider, Energy Consumption, Environment, Iron Mountain, Reliability

Real-Time Business, Data Centers & the Colocation Solution

By Paul Gillin - March 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

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In a new special report, CoreSite and Data Center Frontier take a look at how colocation can be the “nervous system” of today’s modern digital businesses. This entry in a special report series highlights the pace of real-time business. 

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When Breakfast is Mission-Critical: How Waffle House Uses Colocation for DR

By Sarah Rubenoff - March 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

Waffle House

Recently the Waffle House business turned to colocation, through provider QTS, to achieve its IT and data infrastructure needs. These include, according to the QTS, extended value over what could be achieved internally, quick delivery in terms of risk exposure, better resource allocation and more. The full report, “Data Center Services: A Story of Build Versus Buy,” courtesy of QTS, explores the decisioning process to keep data services internal, or whether to use a colocation provider.

Tagged With: Colocation, Colocation Provider, QTS, QTS Realty

10 Reasons to Migrate Your On-Premise Data Center into Colocation or Cloud

By Voices of the Industry - March 9, 2020 1 Comment

10 Reasons for Colocation

Jerry Blair, DataBank Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Sales, highlights a list of 10 reasons for colocation and explores the following question: Why make the move into colo or cloud?

Tagged With: cloud data centers, Colocation, Colocation Provider, DataBank

Speed: The Next Existential Challenge for Colocation Providers

By Voices of the Industry - March 5, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Ashish Moondra, Senior Product Manager, Power, Electronics & Software, Chatsworth Products highlights two recommendations for some of the most common questions data center operators and colocation providers ponder today … how fast can the product be delivered, and how soon will the product be operational?

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5 Questions to Ask Your Provider to Ensure Data Center Compliance

By Sarah Rubenoff - January 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

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In the age of big data, more and more companies’ data strategies are shaping their success and key to remaining competitive in today’s markets. If your business is in the process of picking the right colocation partner, a new white paper from Iron Mountain Data Centers looks to help you decipher the key questions to ask your future or current data center provider about compliance.

Tagged With: Colocation, Colocation Provider, Compliance, Iron Mountain

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

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How to Simplify Distributed IT Management? Focus on the Tools to Improve Flexibility and Efficiency

How to Simplify Distributed IT Management? Focus on the Tools to Improve Flexibility and Efficiency Russell Senesac, Director of Data Center Strategy at Schneider Electric, explores how to address distributed IT management and the tools available today.

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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Data Center Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic presents strategic challenges for the data center and cloud computing sectors. Data Center Frontier provides a one-stop resource for the latest news and analysis for decision-makers navigating this complex new landscape.

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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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Power Efficiency Gains by Deploying 415 VAC Power Distribution in North American Data Centers

High physical density and high power density go “hand in hand” when it comes to the data center. To maximize both without having to pay for specialty infrastructure, many data centers have found it attractive to deploy 415V 3-phase AC power to the rack. Get the new white paper from Server Technology that gives the reasons why this is a cost-effective alternative for many applications.

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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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