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

By Voices of the Industry - May 20, 2022 Leave a Comment

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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.

Tagged With: data center maintenance, hardware, Service Express

The Truth Behind the Top 5 OEM Maintenance Myths

By Voices of the Industry - February 25, 2022

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Buying brand-new equipment might seem like your only option, but it’s a myth and not the only one. Chad Peters, Director of Infrastructure Solutions at Service Express busts five myths around OEM maintenance.

Tagged With: Data Center Design, data center maintenance, hardware, Service Express, Software

How to Avoid Unnecessary Hardware Refreshes

By Voices of the Industry - October 6, 2021

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How do you determine if a slated hardware refresh is really essential? Paul Mercina, Director of Product Management for Park Place Technologies, shares three key considerations that may help you avoid unnecessary IT hardware refreshes.

Tagged With: Data Center Management, hardware, park place technologies, Servers

EOL & EOSL and Long-Term Hardware Infrastructure Strategy

By Voices of the Industry - January 25, 2021

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With close to 25 years of data center and IT expertise, Chad Peters of Service Express shares insights regarding the equipment life cycle and how IT leaders can better prepare their budget, strategy and future projects.

Tagged With: data center equipment, hardware, infrastructure, Service Express

How to Avoid Unnecessary Hardware Refreshes

By Voices of the Industry - October 28, 2020

High-density cloud servers inside a data center operated by Rackspace. (Photo: Rackspace)

Paul Mercina, Director of Product Management, Park Place Technologies, walks readers through three steps to help companies avoid unnecessary hardware refreshes. 

Tagged With: data center maintenance, hardware, park place technologies

Rethinking the Traditional Hardware Refresh Cycle

By Voices of the Industry - August 17, 2020

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Jake Blough, Chief Technology Officer at Service Express, says when thinking about your next hardware refresh cycle for your data center, resist putting it on autopilot.

Tagged With: data center maintenance, hardware, Service Express

A Call for Flexibility and Versatility in The Data Center

By Voices of the Industry - April 18, 2019

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The best tools are those that excel at what they are designed for, and those that are flexible enough to accommodate the occasional misapplication for something other than their intended purpose. Marc Cram, Director of Sales for Server Technology gives the case for flexible and versatile data centers and the tools that support them.

Tagged With: Colocation, hardware, PDU market, Server Technology, Servers

The Year in Cloud: Microsoft Invests in ARM, FPGAs and GPUs

By Sarah Rubenoff - December 27, 2017

The Microsoft collaboration with Cavium runs on its flagship 2nd generation 64-bit ThunderX2 ARMv8-A server processor SoCs. (Photo: Rich Miller)

In 2017, Microsoft also focused on hyperscale hardware, continuing its innovation with FPGAs and GPUs to speed its networking and machine learning services, while test-driving ARM cloud servers.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Data Center Design, FPGAs, hardware, Microsoft

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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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How to Choose a Data Center Provider

Asking the right questions is a big part of the equation. Here are eight considerations in a new white paper from Iron Mountain with targeted questions to ask that will help you choose the right colocation partner for your business. 

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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 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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