It probably should go without saying that the planning phase is crucial to any data center project. But the specific planning process you use will go a long way toward how successful the data center will ultimately be in delivering on the requirements it was intended to meet. Schneider Electric has some sound advice on the topic, and lays it out in a new eBook, "A Practical Guide to Data Center Planning and Design".
We created our Executive Insights videocast series so leaders from the data center and building industries could share what they had learned about how businesses are accelerating their digital...
Most of the cloud and colocation service provider clients I meet are concerned with offering high-reliability data center operations to their customers. In a previous blog post, I talk about... ...
It’s commonly accepted that we’re at crossroads where the decisions we make today will not only shape future generations, but our entire planet. This has become particularly apparent in the... ...
2020 will be mostly remembered as a bad year in business – unless you were in the home gym, pajama pants, or the digital acceleration business. There was a global... Read more » The post In 2021,...
People ask me to make predictions on a pretty regular basis – and I hate doing so. All predictions come with risk and I would much rather leave them to... Read more » The post Flying Houses,...
With smart home technology, our dependency on apps and voice commands, to play our favourite music, stream shows, change the room temperature or lighting, has grown manifold. This necessitates...
Major social and business trends are emerging and they have the capacity to alter the way that hyperscale and colocation data center facilities are designed. That is my big takeaway... Read more...
A recent IDC report showed that data center capacity is projected to grow 4.5 percent from 2019 to 2024[1], confirming that the market shows no signs of slowing. With this... Read more » The post...
Futuristic satellite communications are starting to become likely, viable for a couple of scenarios: for extremely remote areas, and in the situation when all our communications technologies have...
Hypothetically speaking, would you rather risk a fire in your data center or accidentally release gases into the environment that would contribute to global warming? This might sound like a... ...
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 series... Read more » The post...
One of the main challenges hyperscale data centers face is power capacity shortages, as well as the need to reduce their environmental footprint. Gas power generation is one alternative for... ...
In the first part of this blog series, we have covered the important role of power reliability and final distribution in safety on university campus. In part two, I will... Read more » The post...
The colocation market is poised to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 12.9 percent from 2020 to 2027. This steady growth requires colocation providers to balance resources and... Read...
Most people believe manufacturing is highly automated, and they are right! Robots are heavily used in process automation to make everything from cookies and computers to convertibles. However, the...
Hi, Victor Avelar here with your video number two of the 10 Minute Insights series, just a group of small videos to help you answer any questions you might have... Read more » The post Improving...
Health care institutions were already facing significant challenges with the boom in digitization, Internet of Things (IoT) technology, real-time patient tracking, demands of an aging population,...
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 series... Read more » The post What...
I previously shared my thoughts on the growing need for the data center industry to address the impending edge energy challenge in an earlier blog focused on building sustainable edge data... ...
Increasing data center efficiency with eVolution networks When we met the eVolution networks’ team in Tel Aviv, I instantly knew we were on to a winning startup partnership. Israel is... Read...
