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Long Reads - Colocation & Wholesale, Peter Judge, DCD
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Cologix's Laura Ortman: The social CEO
US colo leader likes to be part of the action
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The CEO who’s an engineer - and a Dame
Pure DC’s leader Dawn Childs is not like the rest
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Talking data center diplomacy with CyrusOne’s CEO
Data center builders have to keep both customers and investors happy. That means being circumspect, Eric Schwartz tells us
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Data centers are a conversation, says NorthC's CEO
Keep it local, keep talking, and data centers can be a welcome part of their community, says Alexandra Schless of NorthC
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Over-cooling is past its sell-by date
Fourteen years after apparent proof that warmer is better, colocation companies are still struggling to turn their cooling systems down
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The pan-Asian operator
Rangu Salgame is building hyperscale data center business PDG across from his adopted home in New York, and new head office in Singapore
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Liquid cooling: A new phase
Two-phase liquid cooling has finally arrived. Vendors are making purpose-built liquid cooled servers
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The rebirth of colocation
Early cloud adopters are coming back to colocation services. But the born-again colo customers are very different, and providers face completely new challenges
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Sunevision's CEO keeps a cool head
Fossil fueled electricity, and a potentially volatile politics might trouble some executives - but not Sunevision’s Raymond Tong
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Navigating the insular growth of Japan’s data center sector
As the country experiences a shift to the cloud, demand is booming
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Bulging pockets: What Scott Peterson did after Digital Realty
He nearly helped Digital Realty pull off a merger with Equinix. Now Scott Peterson has a new gig that’s a lot smaller. But will it stay that way?
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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?
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Waking a sleeping giant: Evoque's CEO on leaving AT&T
Plus what it's like to join a business in the middle of a pandemic
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Remote management comes into its own
For years, remote management has been a good idea for data centers. Now it has become a necessity
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Aligned Energy CEO: "Technologies such as AI, IoT, VR, and blockchain will call for considerably more compute"
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
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Realty check: A conversation with Digital Realty's CEO Bill Stein
The biggest wholesale data center company in the world, Digital Realty, has ambitions to dominate other sectors
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Data center hardware is changing
You might expect the physical design of data center hardware to be pretty standard by now. Don’t be so sure…
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How webscale is swallowing colo
Colocation used to be about renting space in racks. Now providers want to sell a whole hall at a time
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Taking the long view with RagingWire's CEO
Doug Adams discusses balancing colo and cloud demand, as well as what it's like to work under NTT
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Data center surgery
Looking forward to your improved and upgraded data center? You may have to suffer some inconvenience along the way.
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Upgrading the birthplace of the commercial Internet
Twenty years ago, the public Internet took off in AOL’s Dulles Technology Center. Now the building is coming back into play, ready for the 21st century
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Thriving during a Greek Tragedy
What happens when international fiber fails to light up, and your country hits a depression? Lamda Hellix’s CEO talks about data center life in Greece
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Modernization - the hidden data center sector
New data center projects get all the attention, but there are a lot of facilities that are being upgraded and modernized
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Build it high: The rise of multi-story data centers
All around the world, data center builders are finding they have to build upwards, creating new opportunities and challenges
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2N versus hybrid resilience
It has been said that the cloud will make reliable data centers unnecessary. The truth is, the cloud is revealing deep issues with our legacy IT
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Asia: the hungry markets
The data center markets in the Asia Pacific region are keen to grow
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Google and Cisco partner on hybrid cloud
Building a yellow brick road for Cisco enterprise customers into the Google Cloud