The colocation providers that will succeed in attracting new clients will need to offer more complex services, add more value to SLAs and provide stronger support for IT migrations. Greg Myers, Marketing Manager at Vertiv, explains how future colocation success will be built upon expanded offerings, faster scalability and stronger migration support.
Improving Data Center Performance and Efficiency on a Budget
If you are trying to improve data center operating performance without replacing your existing infrastructure, there are a variety of economical tactics you can employ. Choosing to follow these strategies can help to keep your existing infrastructure productive and efficient, and on track with industry best practices.
Colocation and Hosting Providers Push Enterprise Data Center Ops. Forward
It doesn’t matter if you’re a colocation provider or manager of an enterprise data center, your challenges are still the same; do what you do, but do it faster, cheaper and better. Dan Draper, Director of Data Center Programs for Vertiv, shares the story of how colocation and hosting providers have pushed traditional enterprise data center operations into the future.
How Lithium Ion Batteries are Impacting Your Data Center
With evolving data center needs, come new challenges around power. No, not that kind – batteries. Learn how new Lithium Ion batter technologies are changing facilities management and creating even more reliability.
The Emergence of Lithium ION Batteries Within the Data Center
After looking at the specifics around LIB and lead-acid energy storage alternatives, we can see the future looks promising for lithium ion batteries. They are designed to bring extended life, reduced weight, smaller size and greater flexibility to modern data center providers. For more information on Lithium Ion Battery solutions for UPS applications, please download this white paper.
As Cloud Growth Accelerates, Data Center Supply Chain Adjusts
Cloud builders’ push to deploy capacity more quickly has implications for the data center supply chain. Our Executive Roundtable discusses how the industry is responding.
What Lies Ahead for Data Center Management Tools?
The market for tools to monitor, manage and automate data centers continues to evolve. Our Executive Roundtable panel discusses significant trends in tools for monitoring and managing data centers.
Roundtable: Data Center M&A Action Will Continue
The consolidation in the data center industry will continue in 2017, with robust M&A activity, according to the four thought leaders on our DCF Executive Roundtable.
Executive Roundtable: How the Cloud is Changing the Data Center Industry
How has the rise of cloud computing changed the data center industry? In our Executive Roundtable, thought leaders from Intel, Digital Realty, Vertiv and Chatsworth Products discuss the cloud disruption.
Gaining Control of the Expanding Edge
Edge computing has become a growing area of focus for many organizations, according to Dan Draper, Director of Data Center Programs for Vertiv.
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