More than any year in recent memory, 2023 is likely to see dueling cross currents that could constrain or accelerate business activity in the sector. This sets the stage for pockets of vibrant activity in an industry grappling with higher costs, a slowing economy, and a challenging landscape for delivering new data center capacity. … […]
The missing step between identifying a business problem and getting the data squared away to solve that problem is determining which data you need and how much of it you really need. … Read Full Article Published August 20, 2022 Originally Published at Forbes
During last fall’s wildfires in California, the largest electric utility provider in the state was forced to shut off power for millions of customers. In early October, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), curtailed power to more than 30 counties in Central and Northern California. California is prone to more wildfires, natural disasters, and inevitably, more […]
If you want to understand why some companies have a toxic culture, underperform relative to their potential, and eventually collapse — look no further than the quality of their leadership teams. Whereas competent leaders cause high levels of trust, engagement, and productivity, incompetent ones result in anxious, alienated workers who practice counterproductive work behaviors and […]
Enterprise customers are weighing the best options for taking advantage of cloud computing models. Software is eating the world, and it has set the table for another powerful trend – the cloud is chomping away on the enterprise data center. The shift of enterprise IT workloads from on-premises IT facilities into third-party data centers is […]
In project management, back and white are your friends – murky gray is not. As a project manager, you want to deal with clear and verified information, not assumptions. When assumptions are made and not validated, mistakes get made, timelines get delayed, and projects fail. … Read Full Article Published February 14, 2022 Originally Published […]
What lies ahead for the data center industry in 2022? At Data Center Frontier our eyes are on the horizon, and we’re constantly tracking the trends that matter. Our crystal ball did pretty well last year, so it’s time to look ahead at what’s in store for 2022. We’ve identified eight themes that we believe […]
Over the past weeks, Harvard Business Review has finally recognized that we are in a new area, the area of projects, the importance of project management, and that the future of work is project-based. This is covered in my featured article The Project Economy Has Arrived, one of the first times ever HBR, the most […]
Enterprises are building the most effective ecosystem for their needs by mixing and matching data center, cloud, and colocation solutions. This launches our special report series on the Hybrid Cloud. Everyone has been in love with the cloud over the past decade, but the relevance of colocation and on-premises data centers has only increased and […]
Industry body expands its climatic recommendations for data centers to address corrosives, high-density servers. Earlier in 2021, ASHRAE’s Technical Committee 9.9 published an update – the fifth edition — of its Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments. The update recommends important changes to data center thermal operating envelopes: the presence of pollutants is now a […]
