Even with all the coffee and energy drinks in the world, humans require sleep. Doctors suggest a good seven to eight hours a night for optimum performance. But machines don’t have the […]
Staying Awake at the Wheel: Data Centers in 2018
Hyperscale Data Center Count Approaches the 400 Mark; US Still Dominates
New data from Synergy Research Group shows that the number of large data centers operated by hyperscale providers is rapidly approaching the 400 mark. The year-end total will be over 390, after […]
Health Care, HIPAA and Data Centers
Even the most tech-savvy American may look askance at the introduction of, say, Google Glass into a doctor’s examination room. So what’s the benefit of merging technology with medicine? To start, it […]
Keeping Cool as the Edge Heats Up
At the edge, service must be efficient, dependable and scalable. And operational costs must remain low. In fact, the edge magnifies the need for a reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure. Heiden indicated that many […]
Learn how the University of Tennessee has upgraded its wireless access points
The University of Tennessee is completing a $1.2 billion renovation and expansion project to support its three data centers, 220 miles of singlemode fiber and hundreds of security cameras. Read the source […]
Research: There are Now Close to 400 Hyper-Scale Data Centers in the World
There will be more than 390 hyper-scale data centers in the world by the end of the year. An overwhelming majority of those facilities — 44 percent — are in the US, […]
Dirty data centers
Technical cleaning is unlikely to be at the top of any data center operator’s priority list. If it’s there at all, it’s probably only grudgingly so. Tweeted by @dcdnews https://twitter.com/dcdnews/status/941741175094071297 Read the […]
Data Center Sale-Leaseback Deals On the Rise, Expect More in 2018
The rise of the service provider and the decline of the enterprise data center are intersecting in the sale-leaseback, a real estate strategy that provides benefits for both parties. Read the source […]
Facebook to Build Two More Massive Data Centers in Oregon
Put 2017 down as the year Facebook took data center expansion to a whole new level. This year, the company whose social network now serves more than 2 billion users monthly announced […]
Workloads, Data Centers & Cloud Strategy: Market & Technology Trends
IT planners have far more options as to where to run their workloads than ever before. On-premises data centers, co-location facilities and managed services providers are now joined by hybrid multi-clouds – […]
