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Early Warning Thermal Sensors Enhance Fire Protection in Modular & Edge Data Centers

By Voices of the Industry - June 17, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Even with the best of traditional fire safety detectors, the precise location & source of the potential threat is difficult to pinpoint. Mike Crovo of Viking Integrated Safety, discusses the use of early warning thermal sensors to enhance fire protection in data centers.

Tagged With: data center fire suppression, Edge Data Centers, Modular Data Centers, Viking Integrated Safety

Six Ways Edge Computing is Changing the Digital Ecosystem Landscape

By Voices of the Industry - May 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

Several concept drawings of DartPoint data centers. (Images: DartPoints)

The pandemic exposed a nation-wide digital divide. Brad Alexander of DartPoints, outlines how edge computing is bridging that gap and changing the digital ecosystem landscape.

Tagged With: 5G, DartPoints, Edge Computing, Edge Data Centers, Hyperscale

Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers

By Voices of the Industry - May 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

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No two are data centers are alike when it comes to design or the applications and data they support with their networking, compute and storage infrastructure. Shad Secrist of Belden outlines the differences between 5 of the most common types of data centers including edge, colocation and hyperscale.

Tagged With: Belden, Colocation, Data Center Design, Edge Data Centers, Hyperscale

Living on the Edge

By Voices of the Industry - March 30, 2022

The Edge

The edge is no longer a specific size or as precise of a place as it once was, but just because it has grown more complex doesn’t mean that we can’t distinguish what or where it is. Sean Farney, Director of Data Center Marketing at Kohler Power Systems explores the ever evolving definition of the edge.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, Edge Data Centers, Kohler Power Systems, machine learning

Delivering Customer Excellence in Turbulent Times

By Voices of the Industry - November 5, 2021

Backup generators at the Venyu BTR-1 data center in Baton Rouge. (Photo: Venyu)

The world has changed overnight, and every industry is playing catch-up to meet higher demands from their customers. Noah Boudreaux, General Manager Data Center Sales and Operations for Venyu, shares insights on how data centers can meet customer demands and deliver excellent customer experiences during challenging times.  

Tagged With: cloud data centers, customer experience, Edge Data Centers, Venyu

Hybrid Edge Data Centers: Reducing Transmission Times for Mission-Critical Applications

By Kathy Hitchens - September 14, 2021

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As more mobile devices send data to the edge and the cloud, data centers will need to develop a hybrid approach to their infrastructure that addresses long transmission times that can lead to downtime for mission-critical applications. A new white paper from Belden explores why low-latency hybrid edge computing is the future of the data center market.

Tagged With: Belden, Data Center Design, Edge Computing, Edge Data Centers, Hybrid cloud

Forced Physics Targets Edge Computing With New Cooling Design

By Rich Miller - August 18, 2021

Forced Physics CEO and founder Scott Davis (left) with Phil McCoy, President of of Sun West Engineering and the new Edgeility module for edge computing. (Photo: Forced Physics)

Data center cooling startup Forced Physics Data Center Technology is entering the edge computing market, offering an outdoor server enclosure that can operate without water or traditional air cooling.

Tagged With: Edge Data Centers, Forced Physics

Are We Headed Toward Lights-Out Data Centers?

By Voices of the Industry - August 6, 2021

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Traditional networks tend not to be as scalable, agile or flexible as they need to be to support automation and lights-out data centers. Shad Secrist, Data Center Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer at Belden, discusses leaf-spine architecture in lights-out data centers. 

Tagged With: Belden, Data Center Design, Edge Data Centers, remote management

The Importance of Geo Diverse Data Center Locations

By Kathy Hitchens - July 14, 2021

Businesses are revamping their data center geo-diversity strategies and relying heavily on technologies like edge cloud computing. A new white paper from Venyu explores the importance of geo-diverse data center locations in today’s business environment.

Tagged With: Data Center, Data Center Site Selection, Edge Data Centers, Venyu

The State of Edge Computing in 2021

By Rich Miller - June 24, 2021

Edge computing deals and deployments span the range of digital infrastructure, from racks and modules to data center halls. (Images: American Tower, Vapor IO, Equinix and Amazon)

How is edge computing evolving, and what use cases and applications are gaining the most traction with customers? Informed takes from 7 thought leaders in digital infrastructure in our DCF Executive Roundtable.

Tagged With: Aligned, Data Aire, Edge Computing, Edge Data Centers, Edge Infrastructure, EdgeConneX, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Nortek, Vertiv

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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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Bypass Architectures

Distributed and Centralized Bypass Architectures Compared

When designing a power protection scheme for data centers, IT and facility managers must ask themselves whether a distributed or centralized backup strategy makes more sense. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to that question. Download the new white paper from Vertiv that explores the principle of centralized versus distributed bypass and applies it equally to standalone monolithic and integrated-modular UPS architectures.

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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 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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