Category: Data Centers

Thermal Management Trends in Data Centers

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Data centers, whether they are multi-story hyperscale facilities in excess of 10 MW or small facilities designed to reduce latency at the edge of the network, require a means to reject the heat generated by the servers. The methods for achieving this are changing along with the industry as the demand for efficiency and sustainability continues to increase. Cooling methods may vary depending on facility size and location, but one thing remains constant: reliable thermal management is a mission critical requirement.

Photonic integration and co-packaging: Design tools for footprint optimization in data center networks

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As traffic within and between data centers continues to grow, operators need to constrain the resulting increase in power consumption to minimize operational costs. This is driving the need to manage footprint and power at the system design level. Photonic integration and co-packaging are related approaches to addressing area and power challenges for networking applications. These component-level design options will enable future footprint-optimized solutions for data centers.

Redefining Data Centers for the Edge

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An edge can be everything that is close to the use case, close to users, regardless of whether it’s a human or a machine. An edge can be a regional or even the local data center in the city, in a region – in the automotive industry, the edge is the IT in the car. I would say that the name data center captures the essence of what’s involved rather well: It’s not the center that chooses the data; it’s the data that chooses the center where they want to be processed. It’s not the center that defines the workloads. It is the data that defines where it wants to be computed. This is often forgotten.

Equinix open news Tokyo data center

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Equinix has opened it’s TY11 data center in Tokyo, Japan. The $70 million first phase of TY11’s construction offers 950 cabinets and colocation space of approximately 39,800 square feet. Total capacity is expected to accommodate more than 3,500 cabinets and colocation space of more than 153,800 square feet, which would make it Equinix’s largest data center in Japan. The company also operates a pair of data centers in Osaka.

Prepare your organization for 100G data center Ethernet

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  Leaf-spine topologies, Ethernet and optics research are driving the next generation of data center networking infrastructure. Stay ahead of the curve with these technologies. A demand for more effective data processing has precipitated the jump from 10G to 100G data center switch connections. Because of this, data center redesigns now include leaf-spine topologies instead of the standard three-tier network architecture.

CommScope Definitions: What is Edge Computing?

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Edge is where connection occurs. It’s the place people, devices or “things” access the network. If there is no connection, it’s not edge. Connectivity will play a critical role at the edge. The connectivity can be wireless, fiber or copper in different forms. The value of edge is data, in many cases real-time data. The majority of data at the edge is processed locally. The rest of the data can be passed to the data center for further compute and storage. If there is no data, it’s not edge. Finally, the interactions at the edge go beyond just human beings and the networks. Devices or “things” play important roles at the edge.