Flexential CEO: building a US giant
Chris Downie heads a US colocation brand with ambitions for hyperscale customers and the Edge. What’s the common thread?
Chris Downie heads a US colocation brand with ambitions for hyperscale customers and the Edge. What’s the common thread?
Forget 5G, the IoT, and micro data centers at cell towers (for now) - DartPoints CEO Scott Willis says the Edge opportunity is small facilities in Tier 3 cities
Like the paperless office, the lights-out data center has proven elusive
How robots helped an Austrian firm keep home-workers comfortable
25 operators and 17 associations respond to the European Green Deal - Facebook and Microsoft aren't there
DCD exclusive: Microsoft’s underwater data center experiment employed wave energy and post-quantum cryptography on the seabed off Scotland. But the big lessons could be learnt on land
Edge facilities will be built in hostile environments. If you open them without due care, you could destroy the whole business model, warns ASHRAE
Data centers include a massive amount of electrical devices, powered by buses and cables. Let’s look at moves to simplify that
Data centers create emissions before they are built. It’s time to address the footprint of basic building materials
The secret to unleashing more computer power for very little energy cost could be in the laws of thermodynamics
Plus what it's like to join a business in the middle of a pandemic
Data centers adapted and - mostly - thrived in the pandemic
For years, remote management has been a good idea for data centers. Now it has become a necessity
Aligned Energy sounds like an electric utility, but CEO Andrew Schaap says it can serve any size of colo customer thanks to innovative cooling and strong backing
Data centers can play a role in cutting emissions and reducing the strain on the grid. But why should they?
While we all wait for autonomous vehicles, is a more useful technology already here?
Data centers are well placed to keep running during the global pandemic - but there are important rules to follow to get through the crisis
If we see a sudden growth in space technology, the UK’s Goonhilly Earth Station could be a major winner
The biggest wholesale data center company in the world, Digital Realty, has ambitions to dominate other sectors
Telecoms providers thought they’d be great at colocation data center services. Now they’re mostly getting out of the game
In a world dominated by US and Chinese providers, does the world need a European cloud player to preserve privacy? OVHcloud’s CEO, Michel Paulin, talks to DCD
As genomic data emerges at ever-increasing rates, can the data center at Wellcome Sanger Institute keep up?
You might expect the physical design of data center hardware to be pretty standard by now. Don’t be so sure…
Resources for edge applications will be more costly than centralized cloud capacity. The applications will have to justify that higher cost