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Expert insights and thought-provoking articles on data center trends, best practices and industry developments.
How Does Internet Traffic Traverse The Globe? Intercontinental & Suboceanic Connectivity 101
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The entire world, more or less, and certainly every continent, is linked to the World Wide Web. So how does data make its way from major data centers in each country across vast oceans and around th…
Historic Wells Building Greets It’s Future As Growing Data Center
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The companies that bought the Wells Building in downtown Milwaukee plan a significant investment to make it a national-caliber data center, and potentially an office hub for tech companies. The…
5 Reasons Why Colocation Is Your IT Answer
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Is your company ready to make the move from in-house servers to a shared data center environment such as colocation? What are the things you need to consider when analyzing an outsourced data center…
Power Distribution Shakeups: Evaluating Your Voltage Options
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If you’re in North America like 1547, you’ll be evaluating your data center power based on the 480/208/120 V three phase distribution scheme. Our facilities’ transformers step down the much highe…
Advantages Of The Powered Shell Data Center
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The evolution of the data center industry is fascinating to watch. We’ve seen the rise of retail and wholesale colocation, powered shells, and cloud as different but effective solutions, and all imp…
Maintaining IT Agility Even In The Data Center
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Keeping your IT department lean and agile is a primary focus for many managers these days. But the data center—a critical component of your IT organization and the foundation for the rest of your IT…
How Custom Data Centers Enable True High Performance Computing (HPC)
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Today’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Environments are highly dependent on custom hardware, power and cooling specs. An outmoded data center facility cannot measure up to the requirements of big…
The Ins And Outs Of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Software
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Data Center Infrastructure Management is a broad concept. In general it refers to the systems and software tools used to track, tweak, report, or monitor everything in your data center, from airflo…
Data Center Tax Incentives: What They Mean & How They Work For You
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Whether you’re involved in data center development on the industry side or you work in IT and are shopping around for a provider, you’ve likely bumped into locations that advertise tax incentiv…
Data Center Networking 101: NAPs, Exchanges, And Interconnection
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Sometimes it seems like servers, racks, cooling units, and power supplies get all the attention in the data center. With blinking lights and loud whirring, plus the size and prominence in the white…