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Iron Mountain Raises its Game with Hyperscale Wins, ITRenew Acquisition

By Rich Miller - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Iron Mountain-VA-2 data center in Manassas, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Iron Mountain is becoming a larger force in the data center business, building beyond its base of enterprise customers with recent hyperscale wins. The recent acquisition of ITRenew may boost Iron Mountain’s sustainability strategy.

Tagged With: Circular Economy, Enterprise, Iron Mountain, IT Renew

Scorecard: Looking Back at DCF’s 2021 Predictions

By Rich Miller - December 29, 2021

Servers inside a Facebook hyperscale data center in North Carolina. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Here’s a look back at DCF’s 2021 Forecast. Our scorecard finds many predictions that were right on the money (big years for M&A, sustainable finance, and cloudification) while several of our takes on innovation are still ahead of their time.

Tagged With: energy storage, Enterprise, Renewable Energy

6 Factors Enterprises Should Look for in a Colocation Provider

By Voices of the Industry - December 22, 2021

Colocation data center providers should be willing to answer the tough questions posed by potential customers. Robert Rockwood of Sabey Data Centers, outlines six key questions enterprise organizations must ask when searching for a colocation provider.

Tagged With: Colocation, Data Center Design, data center provider, Enterprise, Sabey Data Centers

Roundtable: Will The Enterprise IT Recovery Continue into 2022?

By Rich Miller - December 14, 2021

Colocation cabinets inside 60 Hudson Street, a carrier hotel in Manhattan. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Will the recovery in enterprise IT spending continue into 2022? Our Executive Roundtable discusses what to look for in digital modernization, hybrid IT and cloud repatriation and how these trends may impact demand for data centers.

Tagged With: Aligned, Data Aire, EdgeConneX, Enterprise, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Nortek, Sabey Data Centers

Omicron: A New Resiliency Test for the World and the Cloud

By Rich Miller - November 29, 2021

What might the Omicron variant mean to the data center sector and cloud computing? That’s our topic today on the DCF Show podcast, where we look at three areas of potential business impact: travel restrictions, supply chain disruptions, and the progress of the enterprise IT recovery.

Tagged With: COVID-Impact, Data Center Events, Enterprise

Evoque Boosts Connectivity Options, Looks to Expand Data Centers

By Rich Miller - February 17, 2021

Cabinets inside an Evoque Data Center Solutions facility in Dallas. (Photo: Evoque)

Evoque Data Center Solutions enters 2021 with new connectivity options, and ambitions to boost its customer base and presence in the data center business. That includes data center expansions, and perhaps some M&A.

Tagged With: Enterprise, Evoque

Flexential Continues its Expansion, Targeting Hybrid Enterprise Solutions

By Rich Miller - February 5, 2021

The exterior of the Flexential data center facility near Nashville. (Photo: Flexential)

Flexential CEO Chris Downie says recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will bring a sharper focus on hybrid IT, Flexential aims to use its growing portfolio of services and markets to help enterprise customers sort out a complex IT landscape

Tagged With: Dallas, Enterprise, Flexential, Hybrid cloud, hybrid IT, Portland

Enterprise IT Looks to Cloud, Colo to Drive Transformation

By Rich Miller - January 29, 2021

What’s ahead for the data center industry in 2021? On the Data Center Frontier Show Podcast, we discuss how enterprise IT will adapt to the changed landscape created by the COVID19 pandemic, and why this will matter to data center professionals and end users.

Tagged With: Enterprise, enterprise data center

The Eight Trends That Will Shape the Data Center Industry in 2021

By Rich Miller - January 6, 2021

Servers inside a Facebook hyperscale data center in North Carolina. (Photo: Rich Miller)

What’s ahead for the data center industry? We’ve identified eight themes that will shape the data center business in 2021. The big themes: Pandemic response, sustainability and lots of M&A.

Tagged With: Edge Data Centers, energy storage, Enterprise, Lithium-Ion Batteries

Roundtable: The Year Ahead in Enterprise IT Spending

By Rich Miller - December 15, 2020

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In today’s Data Center Executive Roundtable discussion, our panel weighs in on the outlook for enterprise IT spending as the COVID-19 pandemic extends into 2021.

Tagged With: Chatsworth Products, Enterprise, Infrastructure Masons, Intel DCM, Iron Mountain, Nortek, NTT, Sabey Data Centers

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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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Utah Tax Advantages Can Mean Millions in Savings for Salt Lake City Data Center Clients

Utah’s tax incentives for data centers are among the most attractive in the nation. This white paper from Aligned explores the benefits of Utah tax incentives for data center clients, and the savings available for Salt Lake City data centers and clients. 

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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 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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