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Racing in a Modular World

By Voices of the Industry - September 14, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Blake Weaver, Data Center Specialist at ProLift Rigging, explores what it takes to win with modular construction in the speed to market race. 

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Data Center Design, Modular Data Centers, ProLift Rigging Co.

Set Your Project Team up for Modular Build Success

By Voices of the Industry - August 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Neil Smith, Vice President of International Business, TAS, explores the benefits, details and logistic challenges of modular construction for the data center industry from start to finish. 

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Modular, Modular Data Centers, TAS energy

How Prefab Modular Data Center Solutions Fell in Love with Thermal Control

By Voices of the Industry - June 25, 2020 1 Comment

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Data Aire’s Eric Jensen explores the growing relationship and connections between the prefab modular data center and thermal control. 

Tagged With: Data Center Cooling, Modular Data Centers, Prefabricated Data Centers, thermal control

Modular Data Center Specialist Baselayer Acquired by IE Corp.

By Rich Miller - March 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

Modular data center specialist Baselayer Technologies has been acquired by the IE Corporation, which says the deal will accelerate its expansion into edge computing infrastructure.

Tagged With: BASELAYER, Edge Computing, Modular, Modular Data Centers

Vapor IO: We’re Funded to Deploy 36 Edge Sites in Next 2 Years

By Rich Miller - January 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

Vapor IO has completed a $90 million funding that will accelerate the build-out of its micro-modular edge data centers to an additional 16 cities in 2020. The company also said Cloudflare will be a customer in all of its sites.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, Modular Data Centers, Vapor IO

Modular Data Centers as a Potential Strategy to ‘Future Proof’ Facilities

By Sarah Rubenoff - December 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

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The speed of disruption and the current data surge cycle continues to demand transformation in the data center industry. The response to these demands bring prefabricated modular (PFM) data centers to the arena – delivering low-risk, high-value implementations with the added benefits of faster delivery and easier on-site assembly. Download the new white paper from Vertiv provides clarity on the specific benefits that PFM data centers can offer to the future of the data center industry. 

Tagged With: Modular Data Centers, Prefabricated Data Centers, Vertiv

TMGcore Unveils Robot-Managed Immersion Data Centers

By Rich Miller - November 18, 2019 1 Comment

TMGcore has launched its OTTO system, a modular data center platform using immersion cooling and managed by software and robots. (Image: TMGcore)

TMGcore has launched a modular data center platform that uses robots to swap high-density servers immersed in coolant fluid. The OTTO platform is the most ambitious bid yet for a “lights out ” autonomous data center.

Tagged With: Immersion, Liquid Cooling, Modular, Modular Data Centers, TMGcore, Vertiv

Exploring the Potential of Modular Data Centers

By Sarah Rubenoff - July 29, 2019 Leave a Comment

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As big data continues to explode, many enterprises have turned to colocation data centers. Among other factors, leasing—as opposed to building or buying a new data center—reduces upfront costs. A new report from Sabey Data Centers explores how a modular data center design can provide the on-demand scaling capabilities enterprises want with the control, reliability and cost-effectiveness they need.

Tagged With: Colocation Provider, Data Center Design, Modular Data Centers, Sabey Data Centers

GIGA Data Centers Focuses on Module-Powered Colocation

By Rich Miller - May 24, 2019 Leave a Comment

GIGA Data Centers seeks to bring hyperscale-style efficiency and economics to colocation customers. CEO Jake Ring says the company can deploy data center space at $5 million per megawatt.

Tagged With: GIGA Data Centers, Modular, Modular Data Centers

How Technology Can Transform Data Center Construction

By Rich Miller - April 2, 2019 2 Comments

An example of the EksoVest, a robotic exoskeleton for construction and factory workers. (Photo: Ekso Bionics)

New technology can make data center construction faster, cheaper, safer and more inclusive, according to Nancy Novak of Compass Datacenters, who spoke on the topic at Data Center World.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Modular Data Centers

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How to Simplify Distributed IT Management? Focus on the Tools to Improve Flexibility and Efficiency

How to Simplify Distributed IT Management? Focus on the Tools to Improve Flexibility and Efficiency Russell Senesac, Director of Data Center Strategy at Schneider Electric, explores how to address distributed IT management and the tools available today.

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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Data Center Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic presents strategic challenges for the data center and cloud computing sectors. Data Center Frontier provides a one-stop resource for the latest news and analysis for decision-makers navigating this complex new landscape.

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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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Lithium-Ion Batteries

The Advantages of Using Lithium-Ion Batteries as A Backup Power Source in Single-Phase UPS Applications for Data Centers

If your company has a need to establish localized IT resources, you may be thinking of investing in and deploying multiple IT footprints in remote locations, as part of a distributed computing or edge network. In the past five years, lithium-ion batteries have come into use as a stored energy source in traditional data centers. Download the new white paper in which Vertiv looks at how these types of batteries can also be used to support single-phase UPS systems in remote mission-critical environments and edge data centers.

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