With so much attention on protecting against cyber risks, we sometimes forget about the other side of the coin: the risk that data will be physically removed from the building. There are […]
Corning has reduced energy intensity in its global fiber and cable manufacturing facilities by 50 percent – part of Corning’s commitment to protecting the environment through continuous improvement to its processes, products, […]
Maintaining the status quo or building the new world? This is the balancing act IT leaders are facing in their organizations. Join Data Center Knowledge and Flexential experts as we discuss a […]
From an infrastructure perspective, a data center’s ability to scale, as and when needed and to changing customer, business and application needs, is critical. This flexibility will support future bandwidth and transmission […]
After tweeting satellite images of data centers for a week, controversial document-leaking website WikiLeaks has published an internal list of all the facilities owned by Amazon Web Services in 2015, along with […]
Work is underway on a 750,000 square foot data center in Henderson, near Las Vegas, Nevada.The true identity of the company behind the facility is not known; it is operating under the […]
In a world of persistent connectivity and data access, we’re faced with a new challenge. ‘Slow is the new down.’ This mindset has helped drive the evolution of edge computing. And here […]
Too often, organizations embark on grand initiatives without defining what success will look like. DR is no different, but fortunately it can be gauged according to two metrics: The recovery-time objective (RTO): […]
The term “network virtualization” is becoming increasingly popular when talking about ways to successfully implement the 5G networks of the future. With requirements for throughputs of up to 10 Gbps per subscriber […]
Natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, and wild fires are on the rise, all of them impacting the ability of data centers to stay online, but most organizations are not preparing their data […]
