For both traditional on-premise data center compute, as well as for edge, the micro data center provides a cost-effective and lower maintenance alternative, writes Zella DC's Angie Keeler

Keep to the governance, and open opportunities

Cool storage is a good way to keep rarely used assets, but you need to understand it to use it

Cloud prices are generally trending downwards. But the inherent flexibility of cloud means providers can easily increase prices too

Lines are becoming blurred between cloud and data center, writes Panduit's Michael Akinla, while organizations have found out that cloud isn't always the most cost-effective option

Well-established data center trends are accelerating as enterprise co-location customers become more sophisticated

Enterprises may not be building new data centers, but they aren't closing them all down

Multiple cloud providers makes a small business more agile

Can the enterprise data center still deliver value? Yes, argues Future Facilities' Mark Fenton

It’s becoming clear that our industry will need to take a strong position on sustainability

Protecting against often overlooked environmental considerations

We're expecting more from our digital infrastructure - so we need to manage it better

If your servers' performance is not increasing so fast, maybe you don't need to replace them so often?

The data center landscape is changing

Retail experiences need Edge resources with reliable power and security

The connectivity hubs behind business scalability

Where IoT innovation will have the highest visibility for retailers is in anything that touches the customer

How to decide which approach is best for your data center

The global data center industry needs to address this fundamental issue

Although issues such as human error and insufficient power protection contribute to instances of downtime, the biggest cause of downed systems at the Edge is lack of maintenance

Where are we likely to find Edge-based systems appearing?

This digital transformation impacts both the supply and demand sides of retail, including factories, transportation, drones, robots, and augmented reality

Public cloud operators and the core financial services industries are far apart in what they expect from each other.

The true applications of AI in data centers won't look much like the myth and hype of today