Category: Data Centers

Vertiv data center survey sees edge sites tripling by 2025

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New data from Vertiv reveals fundamental shifts in the industry that barely registered in the forecasts from five years ago. According to the updated survey results “the migration to the edge is changing the way today’s industry leaders think about the data center. They are grappling with a broad data center ecosystem comprised of many types of facilities and relying increasingly on the edge of the network. Of participants who have edge sites today or expect to have edge sites in 2025, more than half (53%) expect the number of edge sites they support to grow by at least 100% with 20% expecting a 400% or more increase. Collectively, survey participants expect their total number of edge computing sites will grow 226% between now and 2025.”

Federal CIO issues new data center strategy

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The Office of Management and Budget’s new Data Center Optimization Initiative strategy leans on shared services and more streamlined data centers. Federal CIO Suzette Kent said she’s seeking two outcomes: maintaining “strong operating disciplines” at data centers that are essential to agency operations and ensuring “clarity of focus on closing those facilities which are not deemed as long-term mission critical.”

WheelHouse Advanced Data Center Solutions | Siemon

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Siemon has expanded its comprehensive offering of WheelHouse Advanced Data Center Solutions with new multi-compartment colocation cabinets and the V-Lock™ Cabinet Door Security System. Available in 600mm (24 in.) and 800mm (31.5 in.) widths and in 1000mm (40 in.) and 1200mm (48 in.) depths, Siemon’s multi-compartment cabinets come in 2-, 3- or 4-compartment configurations and in 42U, 45U, 48U and 52U heights. An ideal solution for colocation data centers leasing rack unit space to tenants that do not require

What’s next for data centers? Think micro data centers

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The death of the corporate data center may be a bit premature. Yes, enterprises are going cloud, but the data center could become decentralized via “micro data centers.” Micro data centers are essentially exactly what they sound like. They use racks and a much smaller footprint. Some of these micro data centers sit in cases that look like gun lockers. Others are mini racks with integrated systems.

Is that a Cloud or the Fog Rolling in? Keeping up with the ever-changing patterns in Data Centers

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Much like any weather system, the cloud moves and changes according to its surroundings. Where the cloud meets the horizon, some notice a new formation, one caused by the development of IoT. The fog extends the cloud closer to the devices, thus reducing latency. Regardless of the definition, edge data centers will be required, either as new construction or created from smaller existing enterprise or colocation data centers.

Space: The next frontier in optical networks

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The key challenge currently facing optical cable engineers is to fit as many optical fibres into as small a cable as possible’. Massive connection point distribution and optical fibre cable densification is occurring in access and data centre networks. Each connection point needs an optical fibre, so the number of fibre strands needed to deliver network connectivity is spiralling upwards, while space and physical pathways to route these fibres is fixed or rapidly being consumed.

Testing in the Data Center Spaces

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Depending in which functional area of the data center you are testing, there are different applications, cabling and connectivity that you will encounter. Understanding the functional areas of the data center and what you will likely need to test in each can help prepare you for data center testing.