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Data Center Infrastructure Monitoring Key to Power Quality

By Julius Neudorfer - December 3, 2020

A power room inside the QTS Ashburn data center. (Photo: Rich Miller)

It is impossible to discuss monitoring power quality without mentioning Data Center Infrastructure Monitoring (DCIM), as well as power monitoring and management systems. The final entry in a  special report series highlights the importance of data center infrastructure monitoring to ensuring power quality in today’s colocation facilities. 

Tagged With: Data Center Power, powerside, special report

Perfecting Power Quality Management in Today’s Data Centers

By Julius Neudorfer - November 25, 2020

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Our special report series continues with a look at different elements of power quality management (PQM) for today’s data centers, including ground leakage currents, energy efficiency, the evolution of UPS systems, PDU transformers and more. 

Tagged With: Data Center Power, powerside, special report

Power Quality Monitoring & its Impact on Today’s Data Centers

By Julius Neudorfer - November 20, 2020

Power Quality Monitoring

Recently, just as the cost of other digital devices have come down while becoming more powerful; PQM has also become more sophisticated and intelligent. The result, now PQM is far more cost effective and justifiable, even for smaller data centers. This post continues a new special report series and highlights the ins and outs of power quality management (PQM) for today’s data centers and the influence of power quality on data performance and integrity. 

Tagged With: Data Center Power, powerside, special report, Systems Monitoring

Data Center Power Quality is Critical for Successful Facilities

By Julius Neudorfer - November 4, 2020

Data center power quality has implications throughout the mission-critical power chain, and can impact the operation of the IT equipment. In this special report series, Data Center Frontier and Powerside examine the key factors in data center power quality.

Tagged With: Data Center Power, powerside, special report, Systems Monitoring

Data Center Site Selection: Know Your Local Stakeholders

By Paul Gillin - October 23, 2020

Local stakeholders and community members can sometimes be overlooked in data center site selection, but they can be the data center operator’s most important ally. Stack Infrastructure and Data Center Frontier finish up a new special report series.

Tagged With: Data Center Site Selection, disaster planning, special report, Stack Infrastructure

Follow the Network: Connectivity and Data Center Site Selection

By Paul Gillin - October 16, 2020

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Data centers require reliable, robust and scalable network connections. These needs should be considered early in the planning process. A new Data Center Frontier report series continues to explore the ins and outs of data center site selection.

Tagged With: Data Center Infrastructure, Data Center Network, Data Center Site Selection, special report, Stack Infrastructure

Knowing the Power Grid is Critical for Data Center Site Selection

By Paul Gillin - October 8, 2020

Data centers require lots of power, and users need to understand local utilities and their capacity and reliability. That’s why knowing the grid is crucial in data center site selection.

Tagged With: Data Center Infrastructure, Data Center Site Selection, special report, Stack Infrastructure

5 Keys to Success in Data Center Site Selection

By Paul Gillin - October 2, 2020

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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.  A new special report series, courtesy of Stack Infrastructure,, looks at 5 keys to success in data center site selection.

Tagged With: Data Center Site Selection, special report, Stack Infrastructure

Edge Computing Use Cases: From AI and Telehealth to Factories and 5G

By Rich Miller - August 26, 2020

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For edge computing to succeed, advances in proximity and latency must translate into business value. Who are the users driving demand for edge computing? And what are the use cases that will deliver on this new architecture? 

Tagged With: 5G, Chatsworth Products, Edge Computing, edge computing special report, Edge Data Centers, special report

Closer Look: How Data Centers are Leveraging Hybrid IT

By Bill Kleyman - August 25, 2020

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Edge computing is poised to revolutionize the way we communicate, share data, and access critical resources. Edge ecosystems are specifically designed to help bring core services, data, parts of the cloud, and applications far closer to the user than ever before. This is an excerpt from a special report, sponsored by Panduit.

Tagged With: Cloud, Hybrid cloud, hybrid computing, hybrid IT, Panduit, special report

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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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Sustainable Data Centers

A New Era of Sustainable Data Centers

The energy footprint taken up by data centers will certainly increase as our reliance increases on artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, and 5G. Another factor driving even more data use is that the world’s population will continue to increase, necessitating more devices, connectivity and more. Get the new paper that discusses what power providers are currently offering in key data center markets, what data centers are doing to be as efficient as possible, and how data center customers can support sustainability. 

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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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