As big data continues to explode, many more enterprises are having to make a decision: partner with a colocation provider or go it on their own, building and operating a new data center. A recent white paper from Server Technology weighs the benefits of colocation and lays out the pros and cons of both paths.
Top Factors to Consider When Assessing a Colocation Data Center Facility
As more businesses gravitate toward using colocation data center facilities, they must adequately assess their prospective provider’s ability to supply tenancy at a relatively low total cost of ownership, and in compliance with service-level agreements. Download the new report from Sabey Data Centers to lean more about key considerations to take into account when picking a colocation data center facility right for your business.
The IT Forces Driving an Aligned Energy Model
In a mercurial world of evolutionary data generation, Aligned Energy provides adaptive technology that enables increasingly desired flexibility with deployments. Download the new Financial Analyst Update from Aligned Energy to get an update on its management team, platform, model and more.
Flying Solo, or Going Colo?
Building and operating an enterprise data center (“flying solo”) can be a daunting task that is capital intensive. Being a tenant at a colocation provider can take a lot of burden off the corporate facilities team and reduce CAPEX. Download the new report from Server Technology and Raritan that aims to help enterprises make the decision to choose a colocation provider or building and operating an enterprise data center on their own.
Flexibility and Sustainability for the Dynamic Data Center
In a new whitepaper, Server Technology explore the roles that flexibility and reusability will play going forward in making decisions around engineering future data center designs, and how data centers continue to work on their environmental impacts by pursuing efficiency, reusability, and waste reduction. Download the new report today, “Flexibility and Sustainability for the Dynamic Data Center,” to learn more about how efforts to grow flexibility, resiliency and reusability in the colocation industry will shape further evolution of the data center.
Tradition to Transformation: Financial Services IT
Matt Gleason, VP and general manager, Northeast, for Coresite, explores the fact that despite the obvious benefits of digitally transforming a business, planning and executing a transformation effort is often much easier said than done. Read on for more insight into colocation services for financial institutions.
Edge Computing in 2018: Confusion Clears, Use Cases Emerge
In 2018, DCF tracked the evolution of edge computing, and how it is positioned to bring disruptive change in latency, interconnection and data ingest.
The Year in Hyperscale: Sizing Up the Big 3 Cloud Platforms
The three major cloud platforms – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google – continue to shift the data center landscape. Here’s a look back at the Big 3 in 2018.
The Year in Hyperscale: Facebook Accelerates Data Center Growth, Innovation
It’s been a turbulent year for Facebook. Even as the social network has made headlines, it has continued to expand its massive global data infrastructure.
Voices of 2018: Renewable Energy, the Cloud & Security
DCF’s Voices of the Industry columns provide expert insights from industry leaders. Here’s a look at the Top 10 Voices columns of 2018 focused on trends like renewable energy, IT security, and data center construction.
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