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Six Real-World Approaches to Managing Hybrid IT Environments - Datacenter operators are increasingly managing ‘hybrid’ IT environments.

Sustainability is challenging businesses to rethink their operations with a long-term view of how their products will impact the earth and its resources. In the IT and data center industry,... ...

They may be tall and imposing, or short with good bones. Some are old and beautiful, proving impossible to forget, while others end up being quite forgettable. However, when it... Read more » The...

As colocation and hyperscale data center operators strive to grow their business in the highly competitive data center services marketplace, both systems resilience and time-to-market have emerged...

For many of us with kids at home, we have recently been getting a crash course in a new educational paradigm. Our children are getting their class lectures at home... Read more » The post The...

The demand on data centers has never been higher, and it’s only going to grow. How do we build and run today — for tomorrow? The Data Center Tech Bytes... Read more » The post The 2021 Network:...

In the midst of a global pandemic with a seismic shift of people suddenly working from home, my team and I saw a learning opportunity for our industry. It is... Read more » The post Just...

On a sunny day in March, Susan, a data center manager for a medium-sized company, received an alert. There was a “door open” alarm of rack #43 in the corporate... Read more » The post Why Every...

I have really enjoyed speaking at the last six HPE Discovers in the United States and Europe. These events drew tens of thousands of people including customers and partners with... Read more...

The demand on data centers has never been higher, and it’s only going to grow. How do we build and run today — for tomorrow? The Data Center Tech Bytes podcast... Read more » The post From the...

We’ve experienced significant change in our world over the last few months as a result of COVID-19. As we work to navigate this situation and define our new normal, I’m... Read more » The post...

In 2006 at an industry event, then Google CEO Eric Schmidt introduced the term “cloud computing”, which by the simplest definition means storing and accessing data and programs over the... Read...

We recently announced availability of a new API for EcoStruxure™ IT and our new Monitoring & Dispatch Services. Somebody asked me how this would help the industry with the challenges... Read more...

Over the last several years, cloud and colocation service providers have been citing massive increases in requests for services. Hyperscale providers, in particular, have been building data...

Engineers are often called upon to think differently and solve problems. One of my favorite examples of this creative process is when the ground crew at NASA designed a CO2... Read more » The...

As IoT devices proliferate, they will rapidly put considerable stress on today’s leading communication technologies – Wi-Fi 5 and 4G. We are familiar with these technologies because they are...

Medium voltage (MV) switchgear and transformers play a critical role in the complex electrical distribution networks of large service provider or colocation data centers. They are the connection...

The spike in demand for IT and data center capacity is unprecedented. Colocation and hyperscale data centers are operating at their optimal levels, but reliability and uptime are still a...

Hospitals around the U.S. are facing the challenge of adding capacity faster than ever before. What once may have taken months or years of planning is now happening in weeks,... Read more » The...