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The Makings of a Modern Microgrid

By Bill Kleyman - March 16, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Learn how a microgrid offers more than just backup power generation, including the capabilities that can allow microgrids to help modernize energy sources and how they are managed. This continues our special report series via Enchanted Rock.

Tagged With: data center energy, data center microgrids, enchanted rock, microgrids, Reliability

The State of the Grid: Time for a Refresh

By Bill Kleyman - March 10, 2022 Leave a Comment

Grid

Our electrical infrastructure is aging, and is being pushed to do more than it was initially designed to do. Learn why it’s time for the electric grid to be refreshed in this special report series with Enchanted Rock.

Tagged With: data center energy, data center microgrids, enchanted rock, Reliability

The State of the Grid: Understanding the Power Paradigm Shift

By Bill Kleyman - March 4, 2022 Leave a Comment

Natural Gas

The electric grid is more than just generation and transmission infrastructure. Learn why data center leaders must understand the power paradigm shift in this special report series courtesy of Enchanted Rock.

Tagged With: enchanted rock, Energy, microgrids, Reliability

Reliability-as-a-Service Makes Microgrids Affordable

By Kathy Hitchens - February 16, 2022

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More and more businesses are showing interest in microgrids and the enhanced electric reliability and power quality they provide. Enchanted Rock explores how the concept of reliability-as-a-service can make microgrids affordable for data centers.

Tagged With: data center microgrids, enchanted rock, Energy, Reliability

How to Approach Your Data Center Provider About Social & Environmental Responsibility

By Sarah Rubenoff - May 18, 2020

Environmental Responsibility

Ultimately, making good choices surrounding energy sourcing can help save money, reduce risks, and contribute to solutions to today’s environmental and social responsibility challenges. A new white paper from Iron Mountain explores further how to turn a potential sustainability liability into an opportunity for your organization, and what questions to make sure to ask your data center provider.

Tagged With: Colocation, Colocation Provider, Energy Consumption, Environment, Iron Mountain, Reliability

The Bathtub Curve and Data Center Equipment Reliability

By Voices of the Industry - May 11, 2020

data center infrastructure

Jake Blough, Chief Technology Officer for Service Express, explores the connection between the Bathtub Curve theory and data center equipment reliability and maintenance. 

Tagged With: data center equipment, data center maintenance, Reliability, Service Express

Is A Data Center Disaster Inevitable? Lessons from the Nuclear Industry

By Rich Miller - November 5, 2019

Steve Fairfax, the President of MTechnology, discussed risk and reliability at the 7x24 Exchange Fall Conference in Phoenix. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Failures at nuclear energy plants offer valuable lessons for the data center industry, and could help reduce the risk of similar headline-making disasters, according to reliability expert Steve Fairfax, who spoke at the 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference.

Tagged With: Reliability

The Cloud’s Worst Week: Will Outages Slow Enterprise Momentum?

By Rich Miller - July 8, 2019

cloud strategies

Last week’s cluster of outages for major Internet brands raises fresh questions about the reliability of online service delivery, especially for the enterprise customers that represent future growth for colo & cloud providers.

Tagged With: Downtime, Reliability, uptime institute

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Six Ways Edge Computing is Changing the Digital Ecosystem Landscape

Six Ways Edge Computing is Changing the Digital Ecosystem Landscape The pandemic exposed a nation-wide digital divide. Brad Alexander of DartPoints, outlines how edge computing is bridging that gap and changing the digital ecosystem landscape.

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Five Things To Know About Data Center Site Selection

A data center is a long-term investment, and choosing a location requires being sensitive both the needs of the business and the surrounding community.  If selecting a site for a hyperscale facility, get the new special report that explores five rules of the road to keep your business and the surrounding community in perfect harmony. 

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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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