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Is the Midwest a New Silicon Valley? Here’s Why You Should Take Advantage of the Trend.

By Voices of the Industry - April 4, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Site selection is a strategic process that requires the right blend of power, cost savings, environmental conditions, and scalability. Blake Proffitt of DartPoints explores the reasons that enterprises and hyperscalers are building new data centers in the American Midwest.

Tagged With: Colocation, DartPoints, Data Center Site Selection, Hyperscale, Ohio

Digital Twin Technology Deployed at Innovative French Colocation Data Center

By Kathy Hitchens - March 25, 2022

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When looking to the future of the data center industry, the ability to remain agile, accommodate high density and be able to satisfy stringent carbon efficiency goals will be crucial. Future Facilities explores how an innovative French colocation data center provider uses digital twin technology to accomplish this.

Tagged With: Colocation, Cooling, data center sustainability, future facilities, Virtualization

7 Ways Your Business Can Benefit From Colocation

By Voices of the Industry - March 9, 2022

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To safely store, manage and analyze data, businesses need flexible space and connectivity solutions that can meet existing and future needs without compromising security or compliance. Megan Hofmeyer, Strategic Marketing Director at QTS outlines seven ways in which colocation can allow you to easily scale your business infrastructure to fit your needs.

Tagged With: Colocation, Data Center Design, Interconnection, QTS

Market Changes Drive the Evolution of Data Center Management

By Bill Kleyman - February 28, 2022

In the U.S., the average 5-megawatt data center costs $270 million to operate over 10 years, according to CBRE. In a new DCF series, learn how data center facility management is driving the evolution of REIT and data center provider operational models.

Tagged With: CBRE, Colocation, Data Center Management, Hyperscale

4 Factors Driving Data Centers to More Sustainable Operations

By Kathy Hitchens - February 14, 2022

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A new white paper from Schneider Electric explores four key factors that are driving data centers to more sustainable operations: Colocation tenant requirements, Government regulations, Business value and ESG investment.

Tagged With: Colocation, data center sustainability, Renewable Energy, Schneider Electric

6 Factors Enterprises Should Look for in a Colocation Provider

By Voices of the Industry - December 22, 2021

Colocation data center providers should be willing to answer the tough questions posed by potential customers. Robert Rockwood of Sabey Data Centers, outlines six key questions enterprise organizations must ask when searching for a colocation provider.

Tagged With: Colocation, Data Center Design, data center provider, Enterprise, Sabey Data Centers

Balancing Security, Availability and Connectivity in the Modern Financial Services Landscape

By Voices of the Industry - December 17, 2021

The acceleration of digital transformation is changing demands on data center service providers (Image courtesy of QTS)

The rising acceptance of financial technology (fintech) organizations, such as Venmo, Zelle, GoFundMe and Apple Wallet, adds to the surging amounts of data financial services organizations need to manage and protect. David McCall of QTS Realty Trust explores the changing needs of the financial services sector as it looks to protect a growing amount of data.

Tagged With: Colocation, data privacy, data security, Financial Sector, QTS Realty

AI, Autonomous Vehicles and Crypto Drive Future Compute Requirements

By Doug Mohney - December 9, 2021

The NTT Global Data Centers Americas SV1 facility in Santa Clara, Calif. (Image: NTT)

New technologies like artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and cryptocurrency are driving current and future compute needs.. A new DCF special report courtesy of NTT explores how hybrid architectures help support these workloads.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Colocation, Hybrid cloud, Hyperscale, NTT

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

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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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Intel MCA+MFP Helps JD Stable and Efficient Cloud Services

A new white paper from Intel explores how Intel MCA Recovery  + MFP has helped JD Cloud provide efficient and stable services to their more than 2,500 partners.

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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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