Colos are too often paying a price for their customers’ choices when failures in the rack cause issues upstream. Is it time for colos to take control of the last mile of the power chain?

The power of data center customization

The new Outposts offering puts AWS hardware in your data center. That's weird enough. Why is it also re-importing VMware to the enterprise?

If cabinets are not secured, it’s akin to paying for a home security service and leaving the family jewelry out on the kitchen table instead of in a safe.

Pick a server that best serves your needs and is in your price range, but which has the flexibility to scale up when the time comes

 Here’s every step you need to know to efficiently and safely decommission a data center

Both the reliance on dimensions because of rack design and the addition of proprietary technology causing higher markup has led others to question if data centers can be more efficient with other infrastructure designs

Composable disaggregated infrastructure complements virtualization and SDI technologies to provide the efficiency and agility that today’s hyperscale data centers demand

IT Pods can give the best of both worlds, combining power and speed 

For services to respond quickly, data must be stored and managed locally

Now we are placing IT equipment at the edge of the network, we have to apply new security measures… and keep up the existing ones 

Standardized IT pod architectures can offer many advantages to hyperscale and colocation data centers

Proper asset management and reporting can help the colo deal with changing customers… and mergers and acquisitions

IT experts and facilities managers are in separate silos right now, but there won’t be room for both of them in the data center of the future 

The most common form of data breach is that committed by insiders

Monitor your racks real time, and you could improve your efficiency without adding great expense.. and avoid some nasty surprises 

Micro data centers have become something any CTO can be proud of

Liquid cooling is normally proposed for supercomputers. Now it’s being suggested for smaller edge facilities

Modular can mean many different things 

The progression in data centres is a clear example of the unpredictability of the future in technology.  

Multi-colored racks, viewing galleries, climbing walls and dubstep could be just what we need

Here’s a new data center metric you may not have considered: How much of a space can you fill at the power density you want?

Migrating a Dublin data center over St Patrick’s weekend with no backup… what could possibly go wrong?

Web giants don’t need fully-validated Open Compute products. But if other people want them, why can’t they have them?

HP and Microsoft - and even Apple - are in the Open Compute Project. Could Google one day open up as well?

Giant data centers have an easier time with PUE, says Peter Judge