How liquid cooling impacts uptime thinking
A dive into the murky waters of resilience and redundancy of liquid cooling
Long Reads - Security & Risk, Dan Swinhoe, DCD
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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NIMBY lessons for data centers from renewable developers
How renewable developers are coping with local opposition to energy projects
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Paying the premium: Why 2023 was a bad year for space insurance
Last year was the worst ever in the space insurance market – could satellite innovation be stifled as a result?
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Houthi crisis in Red Sea spurs interest in alternative fiber routes
Eyes have long been focused on deploying fiber cable routes to avoid Egypt, but now attentions are turning to bypassing Yemen, too
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The Houthis and the Red Sea: A new risk to subsea cables
Intentional or otherwise, terrorists are now a threat to global connectivity
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Looking good, feeling safe – data center security by design
Balancing security and aesthetics in data center design
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Edge data center security: The challenge of unmanned resiliency
How security might need to change for ‘lights out’ Edge facilities
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Space comes for fiber: Can satellites offer data centers a new resiliency option?
SES pitches its new mPower fleet as a viable alternative to fiber for telcos and data center operators
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Taking down the infrastructure of cybercrime
Data centers raids are rare, but cybercriminals love hijacking legit cloud instances
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The cable ship capacity crunch
Demand for cable continues to increase, but the fleet laying and maintaining them is small and aging
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How to break into a data center: Pen testers reveal their secrets
Physical security isn’t a commodity, but an ongoing challenge
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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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Dublin and data centers: The end of the road?
Ireland was all set to be a major hub. Then data center power demands came up against the limitations of the grid
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Why colos need to get serious about security
Simple colo services are making way for a hybrid mix of cloud models and platforms, and providers need to adapt to new security threats
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Michael Montoya: Equinix's CSO a year on from its 2020 ransomware incident
Equinix CSO Michael Montoya talks to DCD about the company's September 2020 ransomware attack, and how it responded and recovered
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Satellite boom demands better space traffic management
Manual detection and avoidance measures aren’t enough, when there's thousands of satellites and millions of pieces of space junk
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Just how resilient are satellites?
They’ve become integral to our world, but how robust are the satellites on which we depend?
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China’s moves into mega satellite constellations could add to space debris problem
Lack of adherence to ‘space norms’ could increase risk of in-orbit incidents
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Bi-fuel generators: a good option for long-term backup power without refueling anxiety?
TRG opts for natural gas & diesel combo for backup generators to reduce ‘range anxiety’ in the face of hurricanes
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Learning from a ransomware attack
In 2019, criminals hit a group of US service companies through their data center provider, CyrusOne
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Let the right one in
Data is private, but data centers are often shared. That’s the issue colocation security methods must contend with, now and in the future
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Edge increases the attack surface
As well as potentially unique challenges around physical security, Edge locations require greater considerations around data security