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Questions to Ask Your Data Center Partner to Ensure the Smartest Cooling Strategies

By Sarah Rubenoff - December 7, 2020 Leave a Comment

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When you are selecting a data center partner, ask about the cooling approaches they use. The answers can provide insights into the data center’s ability to meet your expectations and your company’s sustainability goals. This new white paper from Trane explores the ins and outs of data center cooling, and how to ensure the most efficient solution.

Tagged With: Colocation, Data Center Cooling, Data Center Design, Trane

New Report Explores ‘Key Steps’ for Optimizing Data Center Cooling Performance

By Sarah Rubenoff - October 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

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A new white paper, by Chatsworth Products (CPI) and Innovative Research Inc. (IRI), provides an overview of the key steps for optimizing the cooling performance of air-cooled data centers. This includes employing a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling software tool for analysis and exercising airflow management best practices that will help data center managers understand the what and how of optimizing airflow and, consequently, cooling performance.

Tagged With: Airflow Containment, Chatsworth Products, Data Center Cooling, Data Center Design

The Role of PDU Design in Mission Critical Uptime

By Voices of the Industry - September 18, 2020 1 Comment

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Marc Cram, Director of Sales for Server Technology, highlights what the role of PDU design means for mission critical uptime in today’s data centers. 

Tagged With: Data Center Design, mission critical data center, pdus, Server Technology

Racing in a Modular World

By Voices of the Industry - September 14, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Blake Weaver, Data Center Specialist at ProLift Rigging, explores what it takes to win with modular construction in the speed to market race. 

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Data Center Design, Modular Data Centers, ProLift Rigging Co.

Stream Data Centers Teams with Banking Leaders on Build-to-Suit Data Center

By Sarah Rubenoff - September 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

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A new report from Stream Data Centers highlights how the data industry company and and leaders of one of the leaders of one of the nation’s larger commercial banks joined forces as part of a comprehensive data center consolidation plan and ascertained the need for a new core build-to-suit data center that would complement its primary Tier IV data center and execute the project.

Tagged With: build-to-suit data centers, Data Center Design, featured whitepaper, Financial Sector, Stream Data Centers

Three Considerations When Deploying Edge Computing

By Rich Miller - September 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Deploying edge computing infrastructure can be challenging for end users, who must adapt their models and processes for a smaller, denser environment to process more services and user data. There are three common challenges reported by end users working with edge designs: Defining the use case, inexperience with edge deployments and data management concerns. 

Tagged With: Chatsworth Products, Data Center Design, Edge Computing, edge computing special report, Edge Data Centers

Building the Data Center of the Future

By Voices of the Industry - July 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Like most industries, the data center industry has evolved, especially in recent years. While basic data center design hasn’t changed much, some aspects of it have greatly improved. Alex Sharp, Global Head of Design and Construction at Iron Mountain, takes a look at data centers of the future.  

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Data Center Design, future proofing, Iron Mountain

Today and Tomorrow, Sustainable Data Centers Start With Design

By Voices of the Industry - February 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Phill Lawson-Shanks, CIO  and Sustainability Committee Chair at Aligned Energy hones in on sustainable data centers, and what a “new breed” of data centers focused on energy efficiency will look like. 

Tagged With: Aligned Energy, Data Center Design, Data Center Power, sustainability, sustainable data center

De-Constructed: Building and Maintaining World-Class Data Centers

By Voices of the Industry - January 13, 2020 1 Comment

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The demand for data center facilities has been high over the last several years. That demand, and continued growth in the industry, by all indications, will continue for some time. Rob Dean, the VP of Design and Construction at CoreSite, who has been working on construction projects for nearly 15 years, walks readers through the process of building and maintaining a data center in today’s market. 

Tagged With: CoreSite, Data Center Construction, Data Center Design

CAPRE Construction, Design & Engineering Evolution

By Colleen Miller - August 13, 2019 Leave a Comment

Analyst Sami Badri of Credit Suisse described how the development of 5G wireless services may impact data center growth in 2019 and 2020. (Photo: Rich Miller)

This CAPRE summit will bring together the most innovative construction, design and engineering firms for important discussion, debate and networking.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Data Center Design, data center event, Engineering, enterprise data center, enterprise data center operations, Event, Hyperscale

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How to Simplify Distributed IT Management? Focus on the Tools to Improve Flexibility and Efficiency

How to Simplify Distributed IT Management? Focus on the Tools to Improve Flexibility and Efficiency Russell Senesac, Director of Data Center Strategy at Schneider Electric, explores how to address distributed IT management and the tools available today.

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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Data Center Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic presents strategic challenges for the data center and cloud computing sectors. Data Center Frontier provides a one-stop resource for the latest news and analysis for decision-makers navigating this complex new landscape.

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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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Special Report: How Colocation Can Be the Nervous System of Digital Business

How much does your company spend on data communications each year? Chances are it’s a lot and growing. Gartner estimates that spending on communication services will make up 35% of the average IT budget this year. For organizations that are geographically distributed or moving operations to the cloud, the network is increasingly the lifeblood of the business. And as more business moves online, latency is not just unacceptable, it’s a threat to the health of the business. Download the new special report from Data Center Frontier and CoreSite that highlights for companies that depend upon high-speed communications to conduct business, colocation might just be the answer to remain competitive.

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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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