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How to Accelerate Digital Business with Resilience in Mind

By Voices of the Industry - May 9, 2022 Leave a Comment

Businesses must have a robust hybrid IT infrastructure that supports today’s business needs while innovating with an intention for the future. Patrick Doherty of Flexential explores how IT leaders can accelerate digital business growth while also increasing resilience.

Tagged With: Data Center Design, Flexential, infrastructure, Interconnection, Networking

Survey Shows Steps Toward Sustainability, Standardization at the Edge

By Voices of the Industry - April 11, 2022 Leave a Comment

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The edge of network is a juggernaut, and it has to be to keep up with the ever-increasing demands for data and compute, right down to the individual level. Martin Olsen of Vertiv, shares the results of the company’s recently concluded global survey on growth at the edge of network.

Tagged With: edge, Networking, sustainability, Vertiv

Data Centers Must Rethink Interconnection in Order to Evolve

By Paul Gillin - January 20, 2022

An illustration of the DataBank ATL-1 data center, part of the Coda mixed-use development in Atlanta's Technology Square. (Image: DataBank)

Data centers must evolve to become points of connectivity between cloud servers, endpoint devices and partner ecosystems. A new DCF special report courtesy of DataBank shares shared the organization’s perspective on what will be the hub of the near-term future of software-driven IT infrastructure.

Tagged With: Data Center Design, DataBank, Interconnection, Networking, Virtualization

Edge to Core Networking is Critical for IoT Devices, AI and Automation

By Voices of the Industry - January 10, 2022

The Flexential Lone Mountain data center near Las Vegas. (Photo: Flexential)

Workloads are becoming more distributed to support new generation apps and broader use of Machine Learning and AI to help make real-time decisions. Jason Carolan of Flexential explores why networking from the edge to core (and back to the edge) will be critical for IoT, AI, and automation.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, Flexential, Internet of Things, IOT, Networking

Unexpected Benefits of Multi-Tenant Data Centers During a Network Crisis

By Voices of the Industry - June 1, 2020

Chad Rodriguez, Vice President of Network and Cloud, along with Chris Bair, Senior Vice President of Sales and Leasing for Stream Data Centers, share key considerations for successfully managing network and cloud demands during a crisis.

Tagged With: Data Center Network, Networking, Stream Data Centers

IT Perspectives: Top 5 Network Challenges of 2019

By Voices of the Industry - March 18, 2019

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The IT industry is ever changing, and today’s network engineers and architects face an ongoing list of challenges. Iron Mountain Data Centers’ Frank Scalzo highlights the top network challenges facing engineers and architects in today’s data center market. 

Tagged With: cloud computing, Compliance, Data Center Network, Data Center Security, Iron Mountain, Networking

New Network Standards Will Require Network Upgrades — Here’s What to Consider

By Voices of the Industry - June 11, 2018

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In this edition of Voices of the Industry, David Knapp, Product Marketing Manager at Chatsworth Products, explores what to consider as new network standards create network upgrade requirements. 

Tagged With: Chatsworth Products, Data Center Network, Networking

SDN: Defining the Next Generation of Business Leaders

By Voices of the Industry - January 22, 2018

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Forward-looking enterprises are going beyond just deploying hybrid cloud infrastructure, and adopting fundamental network virtualization technologies such as software defined networking (SDN). In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Chris Sharp, CTO, Digital Realty, explores how leveraging the power of software-defined SDN can help you build next-generation networks and ramp up your hybrid cloud strategy.

Tagged With: Digital Realty, Hybrid cloud, Networking, SDN

High Performance Networks Mean Business

By Voices of the Industry - November 28, 2016

The data center at 1100 Space Park Drive anchors the Digital Realty "Connected Campus" in Santa Clara. ((Image: Digital Realty)

In this week’s Voices of the Industry article, Andrew Schaap, Sr. VP of Sales at Digital Realty, discusses the benefits of a high performance network and it’s impact on your big data strategies.

Tagged With: Big Data, connected infrastructure, Digital Realty, Networking

How the IoT will Shape the Network of the Future

By Rich Miller - June 29, 2016

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The Internet of Things (IoT) will generate a tsunami of data, infrastructure experts say, leading to a hybrid network of the future featuring fiber in new places and lots and lots of wireless.

Tagged With: Internet of Things, Networking, Telecom

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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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Technology Takes on Agriculture — the Role of Agrotech and Data Centers in Farming Success

Data centers have a role in enabling agrotech. And a new white paper from QTS focuses on this role. Small, remotely managed edge data centers will provide the proximity to rural areas to handle latency-sensitive, locally cached data requirements. Get the new report that explores how agrotech can help farmers be successful today and into the future. 

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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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