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Maximize your Data Center Budget with High Speed Point-to-Point Cables

By Voices of the Industry - February 22, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Ryan Harris, Sales and Market Manager for High Speed Interconnects with The Siemon Company, explores the ins and outs of a variety of different data center cabling options to suit a variety of different data center budgets, as well as when reaching out to a cabling specialist might be the best approach. 

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New Data Center Infrastructure Strategies Top of Mind for IT Management in 2021

By Sarah Rubenoff - February 8, 2021 Leave a Comment

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A new report from Service Express explores the current outlook on strategic planning for data center infrastructure, identifies the top priorities and challenges that IT professionals will encounter in the next 12-month cycle, and shares insights into workload deployment and cost reduction methods. 

Tagged With: COVID-Impact, Data Center Infrastructure, IT management, Service Express, white paper

Follow the Network: Connectivity and Data Center Site Selection

By Paul Gillin - October 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Data centers require reliable, robust and scalable network connections. These needs should be considered early in the planning process. A new Data Center Frontier report series continues to explore the ins and outs of data center site selection.

Tagged With: Data Center Infrastructure, Data Center Network, Data Center Site Selection, special report, Stack Infrastructure

Knowing the Power Grid is Critical for Data Center Site Selection

By Paul Gillin - October 8, 2020 Leave a Comment

Data centers require lots of power, and users need to understand local utilities and their capacity and reliability. That’s why knowing the grid is crucial in data center site selection.

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Five Critical Success Factors in Data Center Construction

By Voices of the Industry - September 2, 2020 2 Comments

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Brett Semans, Managing Principal at  DCi Data Center Infrastructures, delves into how the data center build process has evolved. Read on to further explore how to ensure data center construction success. 

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Data Center Infrastructure, DCi Data Center Infrastructures

Fast-Tracking the Digital Future

By Voices of the Industry - August 3, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Tim Shaheen, Executive Vice President  of Strategy & Development at Aligned, explores what’s required to bring us into the next chapter of our digital future. 

Tagged With: Aligned Energy, Data Center Infrastructure, Hyperscale, Hyperscale data center

How a FedRAMP-Compliant Facility Can Benefit Any Hosted Infrastructure

By Voices of the Industry - July 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Databank CTO explores how empowering government agencies to transform their IT infrastructure, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) helps accelerate the adoption of cloud solutions with an emphasis on the security and protection of federal information.

Tagged With: Compliance, data center facility, Data Center Infrastructure, DataBank, FedRAMP

Google Will ‘Recalibrate’ Spending on Data Centers, Citing COVID-19

By Rich Miller - April 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

Frontier Spotlight February 2019

Google says it will review its spending on data center infrastructure as part of cost-cutting related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company invested $13 billion in data centers in 2019.

Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID-Impact, Data Center Infrastructure, Finance, Google

Special Report: 5 Common Colocation Myths

By Paul Gillin - April 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Many myths have emerged about the quality and reliability of colocation services, as well as the level of customer control. There are five common misperceptions about colocation in particular. 

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Managing IT Infrastructure Demanding for Today’s Data Centers

By Sarah Rubenoff - March 9, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Managing an organization’s IT infrastructure is a demanding responsibility requiring experience, strategic thinking and the ability to balance current technology challenges and future opportunities. A new white paper shared results from a series of surveys Service Express deployed recently through t s2019 IT Priorities and Infrastructure Survey. . The company surveyed IT professionals on a variety of topics from changing technology to plans regarding the use of a hybrid approach to finding the optimal solutions within their data center environments. Download the full report today.

Tagged With: Data Center, Data Center Infrastructure, Service Express

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Digitization Driving Increasing Requirements for Enterprise IT

Digitization Driving Increasing Requirements for Enterprise IT Sean Baillie, Executive Vice President, Connectivity at QTS Data Centers explains how digital transformation is putting more pressure on data center providers to provide a flawless experience for a variety of end users in a constantly scaling environment.

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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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Top Factors to Consider when Assessing a Colocation Data Center Facility

Colocation data centers have become popular alternatives to proprietary facilities for several key reasons, including core competency, access to cost-efficient expertise, flexability and scalability, and more. Get the new white paper from Sabey Data Centers that explores in details factors to consider when choosing a colocation data center facility and provider. 

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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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