For both traditional on-premise data center compute, as well as for edge, the micro data center provides a cost-effective and lower maintenance alternative, writes Zella DC's Angie Keeler

The biggest security threat to edge data centers might not be cyber miscreants penetrating the firewall, but very ordinary miscreants simply coming through the door, warns RF Code’s Gregg Primm

Cooling doesn’t just account for around 40 per cent of all data center power costs, but affects the efficiency of the entire facility

5G unlocks a more connected, digital, and automated world

Wondering who benefits most of the increasing edge computing capabilities of today’s data centers?

The large numbers of unmanned edge sites that we’re about to see deployed over the coming ten years will require full integrated and automated control, but we might not be ready

Transforming into a digital service provider enables the rapid launch and fulfillment of new products and services, helps to ensure service quality, and reduces operating costs

Sure, get excited about edge networks, but don’t expect them to be delivered quickly

How do you define edge computing?

Prediction isn’t easy. Ron Vokoun takes the bows and beatings for his 2017 predictions 

Micro data centers are an important way to meet distributed data needs

A few releases from the data center industry could be spreading confusion 

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 

Edge facilities are important. But are they as  big a revolution as we are told?

Data center managers must now combine edge facilities and cloud services. That makes things more complicated

Businesses can’t rely on centralized IT. It comes down to the laws of physics 

It’s all new at the edge of the network, so fresh thinking will come to the fore

Elliptical’s rugged mobile data centers are back from the grave

The traditional telco will have a significant role to play as the internet evolves

A new product stretches the terminology a bit more

Let’s talk about what edge colocation is, and why it is important right now

Data centers will become migrants this year, and we will start to define them differently