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.
Data Center Visibility Drives Cost Savings, Time Efficiencies for Alvarez & Marsal
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.
What to Consider When Choosing a Colocation Data Center Facility
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.
How to Approach Your Data Center Provider About Social & 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.
Real-Time Business, Data Centers & the Colocation Solution
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.
When Breakfast is Mission-Critical: How Waffle House Uses Colocation for DR
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.
10 Reasons to Migrate Your On-Premise Data Center into Colocation or Cloud
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?
Speed: The Next Existential Challenge for Colocation Providers
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?
5 Questions to Ask Your Provider to Ensure Data Center Compliance
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.
Data Center Energy Demand Drives Move Toward Greener Sources
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.
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.