Boom in demand for facilities optimized for artificial intelligence is causing a rethink in data center design, including a shift to modular roll-outs, says Instor’s Sam Prudhomme

Heat exchangers need to be designed bespoke for the application in order to maximize energy efficiency, says Alfa Laval’s Anna Blomborg

Find out why moving all your IT to the cloud might not be the right choice

Should the hyperscalers be nervous?

Data centers are made from concrete, cement, steel and glass, and consume vast amounts of power. So how can operators genuinely become “sustainable”, let alone achieve net-zero?

How NTT sees the current hyperscale market

When humans really need to cool down, fans are not a patch on immersion in a pool of cool water. So why not adopt immersion cooling in data centers?

Colocation, cloud, and enterprise

And when will we really need it?

Managing complex supply chains today requires diligence and hard work to bring data center builds in successfully and on-budget, advises Kirby procurement specialist David Waldron

Data center automation isn’t with us yet, but Nokia’s Data Center Fabric solution is a big step in the right direction that could achieve operational cost savings of 40 percent

A Q&A with Ken Hall of CommScope, as he talks us through Propel, the company’s latest fiber offering

Anord Mardix updates operations at its WS1 manufacturing site

Art Dooling talks about how Align got into the world of IT migration

Over the last 18 months, digital infrastructure has enabled the world to continue, but have you ever asked yourself how critical power is manufactured and delivered?

A look at the company’s journey, and how it got to where it is today

New connector innovations are making it that bit easier and faster to provide the fiber connections that new data centers need

With 80 million Internet users, the Philippines has doubled its Internet economy with 93 percent year-on-year growth over the last year

And won the Honeywell Sponsored Enterprise Data Center Evolution Award

Demand for data has been doubling every couple of years – or sooner – for the past three decades. What can data center operators do to keep pace?

What can we learn from this year's DCD>Awards winners?

Data centers are prodigious users of water, but attempts to reduce on-site water usage often just shifts water usage upstream to power generation, argues Excool’s Jon Pettitt

While data center operators want their fleets to be as uniform as possible, customer demands and regulatory requirements mean that, ultimately, many hyperscale data center elements need to be made-to-measure

Kitting out data center cabinets, racks and PDUs can take months, but Panduit claims its new modular approach can slash the time it takes to a matter of days

Connecting hyperscale data center campus buildings together with high fiber count cabling is costly and time consuming, but there is technology that can slash installation times and costs

And reliability close behind, claims NTT

How technological evolution is driving cloud computing

Flash storage is faster and more reliable than conventional hard-disk storage - and that's just two of the reasons why flash is the future for data centers