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How Digital Twin Technology Helps Global Organizations Manage Change

By Kathy Hitchens - April 28, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Despite this changing landscape and the complexities that come with it, data centers must always adapt to the new normal. Future Facilities explores how digital twin technology has helped organizations in the healthcare, aerospace, automotive, and finance sectors manage the constant change found in the data center industry.

Tagged With: Data Center Design, data center efficiency, future facilities, Virtualization

CFD Simulations Validate Data Center Cooling Designs

By Kathy Hitchens - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Kao Data was determined to design their new data centers to be as energy efficient as possible. Future Facilities explores how computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations can be used to validate the design of data center cooling systems.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Cooling, future facilities, Virtualization

Digital Twin Technology Reveals Hidden Data Center Value

By Kathy Hitchens - April 20, 2022 Leave a Comment

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How do financial institutions balance the need for high-performing computation and the increased power and cooling higher-density servers expend? Future Facilities explores how a digital twin can maximizing performance and uncover hidden value in existing data centers.

Tagged With: compute capacity, Cooling, future facilities, Virtualization

Virtualization Helps IT Leaders Future-Proof Their Infrastructure

By Paul Gillin - April 5, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Virtualized networks support multiple physical topologies and can be constructed incrementally over time. Learn how cost, network topology, virtualization can help IT leaders when future-proofing their infrastructure.

Tagged With: Belden, Data Center Design, Data Center Frontier Special Report, Fiber, Virtualization

Digital Twin Technology Deployed at Innovative French Colocation Data Center

By Kathy Hitchens - March 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

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When looking to the future of the data center industry, the ability to remain agile, accommodate high density and be able to satisfy stringent carbon efficiency goals will be crucial. Future Facilities explores how an innovative French colocation data center provider uses digital twin technology to accomplish this.

Tagged With: Colocation, Cooling, data center sustainability, future facilities, Virtualization

Simulation Helps Data Centers Manage Three Key Industry Challenges

By Voices of the Industry - March 17, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Sherman Ikemoto, Managing Director at Future Facilities explains how simulation can help data center operators manage the accelerating pace of business, rising densities, and energy consumption.

Tagged With: Data Center Design, future facilities, high density data centers, Virtualization

Data Centers Must Rethink Interconnection in Order to Evolve

By Paul Gillin - January 20, 2022

An illustration of the DataBank ATL-1 data center, part of the Coda mixed-use development in Atlanta's Technology Square. (Image: DataBank)

Data centers must evolve to become points of connectivity between cloud servers, endpoint devices and partner ecosystems. A new DCF special report courtesy of DataBank shares shared the organization’s perspective on what will be the hub of the near-term future of software-driven IT infrastructure.

Tagged With: Data Center Design, DataBank, Interconnection, Networking, Virtualization

Virtual Interconnection: New Technology For Cutting Edge Data Centers

By Paul Gillin - January 14, 2022

Interconnection can improve network performance and enable new services at edge data centers. (Image: Shutterstock)

Virtual interconnection is a new frontier that’s seeing rapid acceptance by colocation and cloud service providers. In a new DCF report, DataBank shares its take on the near-term future of software-driven IT infrastructure.

Tagged With: DataBank, Edge Computing, Interconnection, Virtualization

The Future is Software Driven and Virtualization is the Path Forward

By Paul Gillin - January 7, 2022

The exterior of the DataBank SLC5 data center on the comp[any's Granite Point campus in Bluffdale, Utah. (Image: DataBank)

Software-defined infrastructure is an evolution of virtualization in which the entire IT resource is managed as a single pool. A new DCF special report courtesy of DataBank looks at the future of software-driven IT infrastructure.

Tagged With: DataBank, Interconnection, IT Infrastructure, Virtualization

Distributed Businesses Need Virtual Interconnections

By Paul Gillin - December 21, 2021

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Virtualized interconnections from colocation providers enable unprecedented flexibility for businesses to distribute computing resources. A new DCF special report courtesy of DataBank shares shared the organization’s perspective on what will be the hub of the near-term future of software-driven IT infrastructure.

Tagged With: DataBank, Hyperscale, Interconnection, Virtualization

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Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers

Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers No two are data centers are alike when it comes to design or the applications and data they support with their networking, compute and storage infrastructure. Shad Secrist of Belden outlines the differences between 5 of the most common types of data centers including edge, colocation and hyperscale.

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Integrating Colocation Services with Business Operations

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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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