How do financial institutions balance the need for high-performing computation and the increased power and cooling higher-density servers expend? Future Facilities explores how a digital twin can maximizing performance and uncover hidden value in existing data centers.
The Future of Adaptive Computing: The Composable Data Center
Currently, most data centers have racks with fixed sets of resources, combining SSDs, CPUs, and Accelerators in a single server. Salil Raje of Xilinx explores how composable infrastructures are making dramatic improvement in data center resource utilization.
Which Matters More in a Colocation Provider: Capacity or Efficiency?
How do you turn the “capacity over efficiency” equation around? David Mettler, vice president of sales and market director for the United States, IO Data Centers, explores how finding the right colocation provider can help you improve efficiency in the data center.
Using What-If Analysis to Address Data Center Capacity Demand
A data center is an interconnected system with thousands or, in some cases, over a million pieces of equipment from hundreds of vendors. With what-if analysis done right, you can quickly derive the insights you need to quickly provision and manage resources for the needs of dynamic IT architectures.
Capacity Constraints: How Best to Prepare for the Future
Very rapid technological change means that future demand for data center capacity is anybody’s guess. And that makes life challenging for even the most sophisticated capacity planners. Aligned Energy’s Andrew Schaap explores how cloud service providers and enterprises alike can mitigate the risk of capacity constraints.
Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 20 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution.