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Data Center Video Effectiveness in a COVID-19 World

By Dan Ephraim - October 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of video in data center marketing. Dan Ephraim of IMA says that focus should include enhanced use of YouTube in addition to LinkedIn, the industry’s traditional social channel of choice.

Tagged With: Video, YouTube

Data Bytes: Pandemic Drives Increased Spending on Hosted Collaboration Tools

By Rich Miller - September 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

Synergy Research provides hard numbers on how the COVID-19 pandemic has boosted video conferencing to support the work-from-home economy.

Tagged With: DataBytes, Video

Inside Zoom’s Infrastructure: Scaling Up Massively With Colo and Cloud

By Rich Miller - May 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom has become the poster child for society’s rapid shift to online services. Here’s a look at how Zoom used a combination of colocation and cloud services to handle its insane video traffic growth.

Tagged With: Coronavirus, Video, Zoom

Oracle Cloud Makes Gains in Video Conferencing With Zoom, 8×8 Wins

By Rich Miller - May 18, 2020 1 Comment

Oracle Cloud is competing aggressively for video conferencing business, winning deals with video conferencing providers Zoom and 8×8 for additional capacity to support pandemic-driven user growth.

Tagged With: Oracle, Video, Zoom

Netflix: Edge Computing Can Streamline TV & Film Production

By Rich Miller - February 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

The walls of the Netflix headquarters building in Hollywood feature an immersive 80-foot, long video wall. (Photo: Netflix)

Netflix sees an opportunity for edge computing to transform TV and film production, where huge video files are often transported on tapes in trucks rather than over data networks.

Tagged With: entertainment, Los Angeles, Netflix, Video

Data Centers Power the Growth of eSports for Gamers, Streamers

By Kayla Matthews - January 2, 2019 Leave a Comment

The packed arena at the League of Legends championship finals held in November in South Korea, which streamed to 99 million eSports enthusiasts. (Source: Riot Games)

The rapid growth of eSports has gaming companies investing in network infrastructure, including the acquisition of low-latency hosting specialists. Data centers play a pivotal role in the growth of the competitive gaming ecosystem.

Tagged With: eSports, Video

Virtual Reality May Test Our Digital Infrastructure

By Kayla Matthews - July 3, 2018 2 Comments

Attendees at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona wearing Samsung Gear VR headsets. (Photo: Facebook)

Virtual reality content may need up to 20 times more storage space than a today’s high-definition video. Will your data center be ready? Here’s a look at how VR may test our digital infrastructure.

Tagged With: Gaming, Video

Online Video is Everywhere, and Filling Up Data Centers

By Kayla Matthews - June 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

Online video usage is surging, spanning everything from YouTube to Netflix to Twitch.

Video content is increasingly delivered over the Internet or other online service, and stored in data centers. Video data is just one of the many data streams filling cloud data centers. Here’s a look at what lies ahead.

Tagged With: Big Data, Video

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Digitization Driving Increasing Requirements for Enterprise IT

Digitization Driving Increasing Requirements for Enterprise IT Sean Baillie, Executive Vice President, Connectivity at QTS Data Centers explains how digital transformation is putting more pressure on data center providers to provide a flawless experience for a variety of end users in a constantly scaling environment.

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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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Technology Takes on Agriculture — the Role of Agrotech and Data Centers in Farming Success

Data centers have a role in enabling agrotech. And a new white paper from QTS focuses on this role. Small, remotely managed edge data centers will provide the proximity to rural areas to handle latency-sensitive, locally cached data requirements. Get the new report that explores how agrotech can help farmers be successful today and into the future. 

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