There is no doubt that the data center is the heart of any network operations, pumping the lifeblood (i.e., data) to and from users, storage devices and the worldwide web. CommScope’s Infrastructure […]
Questions to Ask When Designing a Data Center
Why Microsoft Thinks Underwater Data Centers May Cost Less
There is more to Microsoft’s sinking a data center the size of a shipping container off Scotland’s Orkney Islands than cheap power, free cooling, and being close to where half the world’s population […]
It Was Raining in the Data Center
Data centers are arranged in alternating ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ rows, with the cold rows generally serving as human-access points, where the hot rows are generally for fan exhaust. The ‘extreme changes’ described […]
Solving the Storage Problem of Data Center Modernization – Datera Briefing Note
A decade ago when cloud providers like Amazon entered the market, they redefined how to provision IT services. These services provided self-service capability that raised the bar for how users and application […]
Powering the golden state
California believes it can change the world: the state is at the forefront of a shift away from fossil fuels, hoping to vastly improve efficiency of renewable energy generation, and, at the […]
Tackling multi-cloud misconceptions
Cloud technology offers businesses multiple benefits – including agility, ease-of-use, and time-to-provision. So it’s no surprise that over half (56 percent) of organizations today operate with a cloud-first strategy, according to Veritas’ […]
Inspect before you Connect
Contamination residing between a mated pair of optical connectors will cause signal degradation and can lead to permanent defects like scratches and pits, which can damage both cable assemblies. Read the source […]
Data Center IoT-Based Thermal Optimization
This case study describes how an IoT approach was used to manage the existing, multi-vendor cooling infrastructure within the North American colocation data center and highlights the results. Read the source article […]
Edge data centers need three things: Equipment housing, real estate and fiber
If you think about what you need to build edge computing infrastructure, you need three things: A way to house the equipment and cool it. You need real estate and ideally real […]
Lisa Youngers Appointed by the Fiber Broadband Association as Executive Director
The Fiber Broadband Association has appointed Lisa Youngers to become the Association’s Executive Director effective July 9, 2018. Youngers, who brings two decades of communications industry experience to the Association, was most […]