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How the VFX industry is evolving with new technologies
Features - Cloud & Hyperscale
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Meta details AI data center redesign that led to facilities being scrapped
New chips and new vision as it drastically pivots to generative AI
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Mission Apollo: Behind Google's optical circuit switching revolution
How Google saw the light, and overhauled its data centers
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Riot Games’ ‘valorant’ use of Edge computing
How Riot Games moved its workloads to the cloud and the Edge
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Why Asia is moving to multi-cloud
And how infrastructure as code offers them an easy path forward
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Digital Realty's Virginia master plan
Touring a million square foot data center, and a gigawatt construction site
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How peering went global
Changes in the world’s networks turned Germany’s Internet peering platform into a global phenomenon
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NTT Global Data Centers takes the main stage
Move over RagingWire, NTT is here
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The Great Aussie Migration
Colo and cloud providers move beyond the east coast
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The biggest data center stories of 2022
A huge year for the sector, and an even bigger year for DCD
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DCD Magazine out now: The last data center
Exploring the next epoch of data storage
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Escaping Ukraine: Data migration during an invasion
How Wise escaped Russia’s war in Ukraine, with the help of Equinix Metal and others
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What is a hyperscale data center?
Your introduction to the giant facilities that power the cloud
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Count your carbon
Organizations deciding whether to run a data center or move to the cloud should do some carbon accounting
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Are banks ditching their data centers?
Or are they not quite ready to let go?
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Down with data centers
What we can learn from the struggles of the US government's Cloud First initiative?
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Enterprise healthcare considers a cloud shift
Checking up on healthcare IT
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What is a data center?
New to these parts? Start here for the basic introduction
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The pan-Asian operator
Rangu Salgame is building hyperscale data center business PDG across from his adopted home in New York, and new head office in Singapore
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Re-use, refurb, recycle: Circular economy thinking and data center IT assets
Covid-19 and supply chain issues are driving up interest in circular thinking for servers and networking gear, but will hyperscalers and hardware-as-a-service OEMs make it the norm?
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Data centers with dishes: How the cloud is driving a merger between data centers and ground stations
Hyperscalers are installing ground stations at data centers, while incumbents are moving to a more cloud-like, virtualized, as a Service way of thinking
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Why colos need to get serious about security
Simple colo services are making way for a hybrid mix of cloud models and platforms, and providers need to adapt to new security threats
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Underpaid and overworked: Behind the scenes with Google’s data center contractors
Contractors and Google employees speak out against a broken culture
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Submarine cables find new impetus under hyperscalers
The tides of subsea cable trends are changing rapidly amid new investments and development
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How Dropbox pulled off its hybrid cloud transition
We explore Magic Pocket, and whether others could do the same
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The rebirth of colocation
Early cloud adopters are coming back to colocation services. But the born-again colo customers are very different, and providers face completely new challenges
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Data center water usage remains hidden
We don’t know how much water data centers use. We just know it’s a lot
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Navigating the insular growth of Japan’s data center sector
As the country experiences a shift to the cloud, demand is booming