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Exploring Data Center Power — What’s Top of Mind for Today’s Facility managers?

By Sarah Rubenoff - February 17, 2020 1 Comment

3-phase power

In the market of 2020,  today’s data center manager is responsible for not only overseeing capacity planning management, but also ascertaining  the capability to determine, drive and report on energy efficiency. A new white paper from Server Technology  defines 10 things every data center manager should know about power and identifies key considerations for the data center planner and operator, regarding how to simply and reliably power all of the IT hardware in the modern data center.

Tagged With: Data Center Network, Data Center Storage, Rack Power Distribution, Racks, Server Technology

How a Colocation Doubled Rack Densities with Increased Operational Efficiencies: No Shortcuts Necessary

By Voices of the Industry - March 28, 2019 Leave a Comment

Data Center Infrastructure

After significant growth, Xfernet, a Los Angeles-based colocation, needed to move its facility into a 14,000 square foot data center space with shallow raised floors, low ceilings and limited footprint for new cooling equipment. Chatsworth Products’ John Thomas highlights how the California colocation achieved higher rack densities and ramped up efficiency by using new data center cooling strategies. 

Tagged With: Chatsworth Products, Colocation, data center cabinet, Data Center Cooling, Racks

Google Unveils 48V Data Center Rack, Joins Open Compute

By Rich Miller - March 9, 2016 3 Comments

Google joins the Open Compute Project

The hyperscale data center of the future will run on 48 volt DC power, according to Google, which unveiled the custom design powering its servers and joined the Open Compute Project to evangelize this vision to the world.

Tagged With: Google, Open Compute, Racks

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Making Your Data Center Water Positive

Making Your Data Center Water Positive Cem Candir, CEO of Chemstar WATER, provides insights on new innovations in data center water treatment and gives details on how some hyperscalers are making their data centers water positive.

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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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Empower Your Edge Computing — for the Cloud

Today, colocation providers like EdgeConneX are working with leading cloud and IT service providers to bring their solutions to the edge, deployed in close proximity to enterprises, so they can easily access secure, local connectivity to the cloud for any and all of their workloads. Download the new white paper from EdgeConnex exploring edge computing for the cloud that offers an in-depth look at what factors have driven the cloud to the mainstream, the challenges to enterprise cloud adoption, security concerns, spend, the benefits of an integrated cloud solution and more.

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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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