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Data Center of the Future: Equinix Test-Drives New Power, Cooling Solutions

By Rich Miller - January 20, 2022

An Equinix data center in Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo: Equinix)

Equinix has created a Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) in Ashburn where it operates liquid-cooled servers supported by fuel cells, sodium-ion batteries and intelligent power management. The facility is part of Equinix’s Data Center of the Future initiative to test-drive new technology.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Equinix, Liquid Cooling, Natron, Software Defined Power, Virtual Power Systems, ZutaCore

CBRE Embraces Software-Defined Power with VPS Partnership

By Rich Miller - February 12, 2021

Software-defined power will be available to more data centers through CBRE Data Center Solutions, which will offer its global clients a suite of services from Virtual Power Systems (VPS) that unlock stranded power capacity.

Tagged With: CBRE, Virtual Power Systems

DCF Show: Talking Data Centers With Dean Nelson

By Rich Miller - December 14, 2020

Our guest on the new Data Center Frontier Show is Dean Nelson, founder of Infrastructure Masons and CEO at Virtual Power Systems.

Our guest on the DCF Show is Dean Nelson, founder of Infrastructure Masons and CEO at Virtual Power Systems. Rich and Dean discuss Infrastructure Masons’ mission to ensure that “every click improves the future,” and Dean’s vision for software-defined power.

Tagged With: Data Center, Infrastructure Masons, Virtual Power Systems

EDJX Edge Network Integrates Sustainability, Software-Defined Power

By Rich Miller - October 26, 2020

EdjBlock systems from EDJX create edge computing nodes, and are being deployed in Cyxtera data centers, (Images: EDJX)

Edge computing startup EDJX is launching its network in Cyxtera data centers, using hardware from IT Renew that is repurposed from hyperscale operators, and integrating a software-defined power solution from Virtual Power Systems.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, EDJX, IT Renew, Software Defined Power, Virtual Power Systems

With Nelson as CEO, VPS Advances Vision for Software-Defined Power

By Rich Miller - August 13, 2020

Dean Nelson has been named CEO of Virtual Power Systems, which is seeking to commercialize software-defined power. (Image: Virtual Power Systems)

Software-defined power startup Virtual Power Systems (VPS) has named industry visionary Dean Nelson as its permanent CEO and raised $12 million in additional funding to advance its technology to disrupt data center electrical infrastructure.

Tagged With: Software Defined Power, Virtual Power Systems

Dean Nelson Named Interim CEO of Software-Defined Power Specialist VPS

By Rich Miller - February 27, 2020

Data center industry veteran Dean Nelson. (Photo: Colleen Miller)

Two veteran data center thought leaders will steer the future of an emerging specialist in software-defined power. Virtual Power Systems has named Dean Nelson interim CEO, while Peter Gross will be Chairman of the Board.

Tagged With: Software Defined Power, Virtual Power Systems

Virtual Power Systems Raises $17 Million for Software-Defined Power

By Rich Miller - March 20, 2019

The Virtual Power Systems ICE Console dashboard provides power usage data across systems. (Image: Virtual Power Systems)

Virtual Power Systems (VPS),has secured $17 million in Series B Financing to fund the development of “software-defined power” for data centers.

Tagged With: Software Defined Power, Virtual Power Systems

Can Software-Defined Power Transform Data Center Infrastructure?

By Rich Miller - May 10, 2018

The Virtual Power Systems ICE Console dashboard provides power usage data across systems. (Image: Virtual Power Systems)

Startup Virtual Power Systems specializes in software-defined power, and hopes to use automation and on-demand provisioning to bring new levels of efficiency to data center power distribution.

Tagged With: Software Defined Power, Virtual Power Systems

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Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center The data center industry continues to experience significant global supply chain problems. Brett Williams of Service Express, explores the importance of leveraging the secondary hardware market to overcome supply chain roadblocks.

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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 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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