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Cooling What Remains: The CCF After Moving to the Cloud
Every move to the cloud, whether from an original site or in the changed environment of a colocation facility, creates an opportunity to refine the configuration and control of the cooling...
View ArticleIndustry Outlook: Swiss Data Center Market
Industry Outlook is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry Outlook...
View ArticleSMBs Pursuing Mixed Data Center Strategy
To hear some of the hype surrounding the cloud, one might easily conclude that businesses at all levels are abandoning data centers en masse to gain the benefits of outsourcing. A survey by Forrester...
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Is Your Network Provider Holding You Hostage in Its Data Center?
The colocation landscape in North America continues to evolve, shaped by a number of industry trends. Colocation in Canada today is barely recognizable relative to where it stood 18 months ago,...
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Trimming the Fat: How to Make Your Colocation Offering as Efficient as Possible
A recent study conducted in North America by IMS Research found that the colocation market will be worth $10 billion by 2018. But this prediction does not represent a guaranteed windfall for colocation...
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Peeling Back the Growing Data Center Demand in Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida has long been a logistics and distribution hub—a deep-water port perfectly situated to connect North America with the Caribbean and South America. Now, the city of 850,000 has...
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Cloud-Based Companies and Data Centers: Friends or Foes?
Recent discussions may suggest that data centers are on the decline, owing to a mass influx of businesses moving to the cloud—a move that is unlikely to change anytime soon. And although it may seem...
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When Multiple Data Centers Make Sense
Although many of the largest tech companies are located in Silicon Valley, often their data is not. With greater frequency, startups and large enterprises alike are seeking to store their data outside...
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Data Center Trends Survey: Budgets Tilt Positive, Outsourcing a Mixed Bag
By some accounts, the traditional company data center is fading away as outsourcing alternatives like the cloud and colocation take a larger bite of the market. But in some industries, the need to...
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What’s Next for the Health-Care Data Center?
When compared with other industries—think retail and finance—it’s no secret that health care has remained dreadfully behind in its ability to use the latest technology solutions. HIPAA compliance...
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Questions to Ask Before Signing a Data Center Colocation Contract
Regretting signing a colocation contract with a data center can be especially painful. Mismanaged data centers will experience random outages or interruptions in availability, which can hinder your...
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Right-Sizing Data Center UPS Redundancy and Reliability
The data center industry, facing exponentially growing demand for data and networking capacity, is challenging its power distribution and protection partners to provide electrical infrastructure...
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Data Center Malinvestment?
One of the dangers of artificially low interest rates is malinvestment: money put into certain projects is misplaced because demand in that area is unsustainable or overestimated. Do data centers fall...
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Five Factors to Consider When Choosing a Data Center Colocation Provider
For most companies, licensing space from a data center colocation service provider is almost always a better business and technical decision than maintaining private facilities. The exploding demands...
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Data Center Design: Start Small and Innovate
Reliance on a traditional three-tier data center network design can no longer match the need for an enterprise to innovate while remaining financially viable. Instead, organizations are shifting toward...
View ArticleTop 5 Things You Need From Your Data Center
These days, more and more companies are choosing colocation over building and maintaining their own in-house data center. The benefits of colocation are many, including reduced infrastructure costs,...
View ArticleDCIM: A Need, Not a Want
The way we see service has changed, whether as a consumer or a business. In the information age we want to know how much we’re using in real time—and, crucially, what it costs. The same accounts for...
View ArticleIndustry Outlook: Aligning Business and Data Center Strategies
Industry Outlook is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry Outlook...
View ArticleNewark Versus New York: Where Should Your Business Colocate?
Most people are enticed by the bright lights and glamour of a big city. This is especially true in New York City—one of the greatest cities in the world! So much is going on in the Big Apple; bustling...
View ArticleAnalyst Insight: Introduction to Edge Data Centers
This article is the first analyst insight of a four-part series from IHS Markit, in which the Data Center Infrastructure team will explore the potential benefits of edge data centers and what they mean...
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