Mike Lebow from Stream Data Centers explains how industry trends have made location strategy and site development more complex for everyone, and what colos can learn from the hyperscale playbook.
Bare Metal + Colocation: The Best of All Worlds
Databank’s Jeremy Pease and Scott Palsgrove highlight the many benefits of bare metal in a colocation data center and why many enterprises may be wise to consider a bare metal model for their compute and infrastructure requirements.
How Fiber Optic Cabling Systems Can Expand Colocation Densities
Siemon presents a case study of how Wellstar Health Systems used fiber optic cabling solutions to maximize colocation densities.
Understanding Today’s Cloud Service Provider Market
Cloud providers of all sizes face a number of challenges as the industry’s growth rate accelerates and new markets and users open up. Iron Mountain explores challenges, drivers, and opportunities for those in the cloud service provider market.
Digital Infrastructure’s OpEx Shift: The Case for Renting vs Buying
Scott Willis, president and CEO of DartPoints, discusses CapEx- and OpEx-based data storage solutions and provides insights on how to determine which is best for your organization.
Why Hybrid Cloud Models Are the Key to Success
IT leaders must leverage the strengths of on-site data centers, cloud, and colocation by selecting the most appropriate tool for the application, workload and desired outcome. Learn why success for today’s data centers means incorporating colocation as well as public and hybrid cloud models.
How to Get the Most Out of Your Multicloud Strategy
As enterprises seek to become more agile in today’s rapidly evolving business climate, many are turning to a multicloud architecture. A new white paper from Flexential outlines how enterprises can get the greatest value out of their multicloud strategy.
Containment Strategies in High Density Data Centers
One of the most asked questions and “hotly” debated answers to the Cold Aisle vs Hot Aisle containment which is better question are: Cold, Hot or the classic “it depends.” Learn about design considerations for hot and cold aisle containment in this new article from TechnoGuard.
The Home of the Cloud: Rapid Growth Continues in Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia continues to be largest market for data center space in the U.S. A new DCF special report provides an overview of the trends driving growth in Data Center Alley and its emerging sub-markets.
Avoid a “Frankenstein” Hybrid IT Infrastructure: Proactive Planning and the Right Partner Make All the Difference
To keep pace with business growth, many companies unintentionally create a hybrid IT infrastructure that adds complexity, costs, and risk. Eric Carter and Rob Zimmerman at DataBank examine the challenges and risks of an unintentional hybrid IT infrastructure and how to avoid them.
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