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LinkedIn data center in PortlandLinkedIn is not only the leading social platform for networking with colleagues and industry professionals, but it is also an innovator in the data center space. LinkedIn has overhauled its data center designs to accommodate new cooling methodologies with higher power densities. They have also created the Open19 Initiative, an alternative to Facebook’s Open Compute Project that focuses on edge computing.

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LinkedIn Plans for Huge Growth for the EdgeCloud

By Rich Miller - May 22, 2018

Yuval Bachar, the Principal Engineer for Data Center Architecture at LinkedIn, speaks at the DCD Edge conference in New York. (Photo: Rich Miller)

LinkedIn sees edge computing as a huge driver of infrastructure growth. The company has begun deploying edge data centers, and using the Open19 project as a platform for future design innovations to power smaller facilities.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, LinkedIn, Open19

Colovore Pre-Leases New Phase of Water-Cooled Data Center

By Rich Miller - September 13, 2017

High-density racks inside the Colovore data center in Santa Clara, Calif. (Photo: Rich Miller)

In a sign of strengthening demand for water-cooled racks, high-density hosting specialist Colovore has fully pre-leased a 2 megawatt expansion of its Santa Clara data center.

Tagged With: Colovore, GPUs, LinkedIn, ScaleMatrix

Open19 Launches With Vision for Open Hardware at the Edge

By Rich Miller - May 23, 2017

Open19 founder Yuval Bachar of LinkedIn (right) describes the project at last week's Infrastructure Masons Summit in Palo Alto, Calif. (Photo: Infrastructure Masons)

The Open19 Foundation launched today, positioning its open hardware designs as a foundational layer of edge computing, and an alternative to the Open Compute project and hyperscale designs.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, LinkedIn, Open Compute, Open19

Inside LinkedIn’s Cutting-Edge Portland Data Center

By Rich Miller - December 1, 2016

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The new LinkedIn data center in Hillsboro, Oregon breaks new ground in Internet-scale data centers, combining high density with exceptional efficiency and sustainability. Here’s a closer look at the project and its design.

Tagged With: Infomart Data Centers, LinkedIn, Portland

With LinkedIn Deal, Microsoft Expands Wholesale Data Center Presence

By Rich Miller - June 13, 2016

High-density racks filled with servers in a LinkedIn data center near Dallas. (Photo: LinkedIn)

With its $26 billion deal to acquire the business social network LinkedIn, Microsoft stands to become an even larger player in the market for wholesale data center space.

Tagged With: LinkedIn, Microsoft, Wholesale

Cloud Growth Spurs Robust Leasing for Data Center Firms

By Rich Miller - January 12, 2016

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The growth of cloud computing is providing a huge boost for data center developers, who reported leasing in 2015 on a par with the record volume in 2014. A new report cites 2015 as “one of the best leasing years ever.”

Tagged With: LinkedIn, Microsoft, Uber

The Density Debate: Is Cooling Door Adoption a Sign of Coming Shift?

By Rich Miller - December 17, 2015

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Does an uptick in adoption of water-chilled cooling doors signal a trend towards higher rack densities in data centers? Colovore and LinkedIn are among those implementing rear-door cooling units.

Tagged With: Colovore, Data Center Cooling, eBay, LinkedIn

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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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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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