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How an Owner-Enabled Supply Chain Can Bring Transparency to Cloud Providers

By Voices of the Industry - June 27, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Without transparency between all parties, the data center construction process is not functioning at max efficiency, leading to site construction delays, and missed opportunities for the Cloud Providers. Robert Moffit, Executive Vice President of BluePrint Supply Chain, explores the importance of transparency in supply chain management.

Tagged With: BluePrint Supply Chain, cloud data centers, Data Center Supply Chain, ProLift Rigging Co.

The Top 10 Data Center Stories for March 2022

By Rich Miller - April 1, 2022

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CyrusOne’s next chapter, NVIDIA’s new hardware, and Northern VIrginia’s shortage of development sites were the most popular stories for readers of Data Center Frontier in March 2022.

Tagged With: CBRE, CyrusOne, Kohler Power Systems, NVIDIA, ProLift Rigging Co., Prologis, Skybox, Stack Infrastructure, Stream Data Centers, Vantage Data Centers

How the Supply Chain Crisis Should Change Our Approach Moving Forward

By Voices of the Industry - March 23, 2022

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While the supply chain crisis has had major negative effects, there are some positives from our current situation. Bill Tierney, Senior Vice President, at ProLift Rigging explores key lessons that can be learned from the supply chain crisis.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Data Center Design, Data Center Site Selection, ProLift Rigging Co.

The Impact of Project Buffering with Compass Datacenters

By Voices of the Industry - November 24, 2021

Zech Connell, Data Center Market Manager at ProLift Rigging, shares how project buffering saved Compass Datacenters both time and money when building their new Phoenix data center. 

Tagged With: Compass Data Centers, Data Center Construction, project buffering, ProLift Rigging Co.

The 4 Elements That Can Make or Break Your Construction Schedule

By Voices of the Industry - August 13, 2021

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One major contributor to the increased speed of data center construction is modularization. Nate Harper, Marketing and Inside Sales Manager at ProLift Rigging, discusses how logistics, storage, transportation, and on-site installation can make or break a modular data center’s construction schedule.

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

Speed-to-Market Can Be Improved With Project Buffering

By Kathy Hitchens - June 10, 2021

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With an 18 to 24 month construction phase for most large data centers, the industry needs new strategies to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding global colocation market. Project buffering can eliminate many of the threats that inhibit data center speed-to-market, including market demand for OFCI equipment, supply chain issues, labor shortages, and conflicts around the just-in-time delivery of mission critical equipment.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, project buffering, ProLift Rigging Co.

Why You Should Question Everything to Truly Drive Data Center Innovation

By Voices of the Industry - May 14, 2021

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There are small improvements that can be made everywhere by being infinitely curious and questioning every “that’s how it has always been done” process. In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Zech Connell, Data Center Market Manager at ProLift Rigging explores how questioning everything about the construction process can drive data center innovation.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, data center innovations, ProLift Rigging Co.

5 Ways to Mitigate Supply Chain Unpredictability and Labor Shortages in Data Center Construction

By Voices of the Industry - February 24, 2021

Blake Weaver, Data Center Specialist at ProLift Rigging offers a list of ways to overcome supply chain challenges and labor shortages in data center construction. 

Tagged With: Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Jobs, ProLift Rigging Co.

How to Avoid Site Congestion During Data Center Construction

By Voices of the Industry - December 7, 2020

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Although 2020 is winding down, there’s no slowdown in sight for the data center market.  Growth projections for at least the next couple years are staggering. Blake Weaver, Data Center Specialist  from ProLift Rigging walks readers through five different strategies to avoid congestion challenges during the data center construction process. 

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, ProLift Rigging Co.

Racing in a Modular World

By Voices of the Industry - September 14, 2020

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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.

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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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Tax incentives and relatively low electricity costs are just two of the factors driving growth in the Minneapolis data center market. A new white paper from Stream Data Centers outlines 5 reasons why data center providers should consider the Minneapolis market.

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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 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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