Is the data center industry ready to change for the coming of the 1MW rack?
1MW racks and 800V DC topologies on the way, because Nvidia said so
Long Reads - Infrastructure Management
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Are tokens the only data center metric that matter in the age of AI?
Are PUE and WUE doomed to fall behind token efficiency as the only thing that's important?
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Everything data center operators need to know about dielectric fluids
A primer on the fluids used in data center cooling
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Immersion cooling and IT reliability: What do the numbers say?
Is immersion cooling good for uptime?
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How liquid cooling impacts uptime thinking
A dive into the murky waters of resilience and redundancy of liquid cooling
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The leak busters
In the age of liquid cooling, data center operators can ill-afford to make leak detection systems an after-thought
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How Virgin Media O2’s heartbeat drives its mobile network
A data center west of London plays a vital role in allowing one of the UK’s largest telcos to stay connected
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Hot water, cold water
What’s the right temperature for water in liquid cooled systems?
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Is HAMR the savior of hard drives?
Stop. HAMR time
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The slow burn of data egress fees
Inside the cloud economics of the ‘renters not buyers’ club
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Biggin Hill: Once an RAF base, now Formula 1’s key broadcasting hub
Modern tech helps F1's team go remote
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Longer coherence: How the quantum computing industry is maturing
Academics with screwdrivers are making way for operations engineers and SLAs
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Staffing levels: are data centers at risk of unnecessary outages?
A dive into Microsoft's August Sydney West outage
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Cloud repatriation and the death of cloud-only
Companies are realizing a hybrid mix of cloud and on-prem could be a better strategy than a binary approach
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Drones at (and even in) a data center
Do today’s mega-campuses need aerial security as much as human patrols?
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Making subsea cables smart, and helping save the planet
How SMART repeaters could help the fight against global warming
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Network automation: the complexity conundrum
Automation can be a double-edged sword in the network arena. What we need is intelligent automation
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Is PUE too long in the tooth?
What’s next for energy efficiency metrics in the data center industry?
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The DPU dilemma: life beyond SmartNICs
There’s a major shift happening in server hardware, and it’s emerged from a surprising direction: the humble network card
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Digital twins and simulation in data center construction and operation
How a complete virtual copy of a data center can help organizations build more efficient and sustainable facilities
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The robotic Edge
Edge data centers can’t rely on regular visitors. They may have to become robotic
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AI in the data center; still a work in progress for all but the hyperscalers
While the hyperscalers have the scale and technical nous, deploying AI en masse is still an ongoing effort for most data center operators
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The slow rise of robots in the data center
Robots are coming for the data center, but don’t expect transformational change any time soon
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Why revive the DCIM camel?
DCIM crashed in the middle of its hype cycle, but now smart data centers demand it be brought to life again
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Love at first sight
AI and DCIM were made for each other, says Nlyte CEO Doug Sabella
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Bursting the DCIM bubble
Why is Data Center Infrastructure Management such a painful topic?