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

By Voices of the Industry - February 22, 2021

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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. 

Tagged With: data center budget, data center cables, Data Center Infrastructure, Finance, point-to-point cables, siemon

GI Partners Raises $1.8 Billion to Invest in Digital Infrastructure

By Rich Miller - September 8, 2020

One of the most experienced investors in the data center sector has raised a large fund and is ready to go shopping. GI Partners today said it has lined up $1.8 billion in investor backing for its Data Infrastructure Fund.

Tagged With: Finance, GI Partners, Investing

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

By Rich Miller - April 16, 2020

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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

TierPoint Lines Up $320 Million in Equity Funding from Investor Group

By Rich Miller - March 25, 2020

A row of cabinets inside one of the data halls at the TierPoint TekPark data center near Allentown, Pa. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Three global infrastructure funds will invest $320 million in Tierpoint, a regional data center provider that has built a national network through a series of acquisitions.

Tagged With: Finance, TierPoint

Investor Interest in Data Centers Still High, As Are Deal Valuations

By Rich Miller - February 14, 2020

Investor interest in the data center sector remains high, and the wave of M&A is likely to continue in 2020. But deal values are high, prompting some investors to tread carefully and adjust their strategies.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, Finance, Investing

Vertiv Becomes Public Company, Begins Trading on NYSE

By Rich Miller - February 11, 2020

Vertiv Holdings Co. has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange Monday after completing a $5.3 billion merger with GS Acquisition Holdings, a public company led by investor David Cote. 

Tagged With: Finance, Vertiv

Scorecard: Looking Back at DCF’s 2019 Predictions

By Rich Miller - January 3, 2020

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Last January we identified eight themes that we believed would shape the data center business in 2019. How did we do? Let’s take a look and see how we did, ranking whether each prediction was a Hit, Miss or Too Early.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, Finance, Hybrid cloud, Investing, M2M

Vertiv to Go Public, Outlines Growth Trajectory in Data Center Sector

By Rich Miller - December 13, 2019

Vertiv plans to become a public company with a streamlined balance sheet and ambitions to become an even larger player in data centers and edge computing. Here’s a closer look at Vertiv’s roadmap for future growth.

Tagged With: Finance, Investing, Vertiv

Aligned Lines Up $495 Million for Data Center Expansion

By Rich Miller - October 22, 2019

A data hall in an Aligned Energy data center in Dallas, ready for racks. The rear wall of the hall features Aligned's Delta 3 cooling system. (Photo: Aligned Energy)

Aligned Energy has lined up a $495 million secured credit facility, from investors led by Goldman Sachs, which will fund data center expansions in Dallas, Phoenix and Salt Lake City.

Tagged With: Aligned, Finance, Investing

With Investment Grade Rating, Growth Gets Cheaper for Equinix

By Rich Miller - August 6, 2019

Inside an Equinix colocation center. (Image: Equinix)

Equinix is now officially an investment grade company, joining Digital Realty as the only public data center providers to earn the coveted credit rating, which means lower rates on borrowing and access to a wider pool of capital to fund growth.

Tagged With: Equinix, Finance, Investing

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Voices of the Industry

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center The data center industry continues to experience significant global supply chain problems. Brett Williams of Service Express, explores the importance of leveraging the secondary hardware market to overcome supply chain roadblocks.

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Cooling Guidance for Data Center Density, Efficiency and Economy of Scale

In all cooling applications where significant change can be expected for a building’s usage, future-ready flexibility is a foremost concern. A new white paper from Data Aire explains why fluidity in business and global economies requires flexibility.

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DCF Spotlight

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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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