The Post-COVID Digital Transformation of the Data Center

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Digitization has modernized data center capabilities. Here are considerations toward using these capabilities to accelerate business objectives.

In the early days of the digital era, data centers were mysterious buildings shrouded in secrecy. They were huge, stark buildings billowing steam and looming in the distance. And the secrecy is understandable when you consider that for the enterprises using them, their IT operations within these buildings were the “crown jewels” supporting their businesses.

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Published September 10, 2021 – By: QTS
Originally Published at CIO – IDG Communications, Inc.

Beyond Generators: Data Centers Pursue New Approaches to Backup Energy

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The data center industry is rethinking its approach to backup power, prompted by pledges from hyperscale operators to end the use of diesel fuel in their emergency generators. This trend is prompting new approaches to one of the most critical points in the digital infrastructure power chain, and will be carefully considered as mission-critical operators seek to strike the right balance between reliability and sustainability.

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Published July 26, 2021 – By: Rich Miller
Originally Published at Data Center Frontier

Medium voltage and carbon reduction in large scale data centers

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Every electrical engineer learns about loss. What is less well taught is how transmission losses produce more carbon and other GHGs.

As every large energy-using industry grapples with sustainability challenges some big users in a range of sectors such as manufacturing, defense and energy itself have already grasped the advantages of Medium Voltage (MV).

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Published June 23, 2021 – By: Dean Richards, Piller Power Systems
Originally Published at Data Centre Dynamics

Making Datacenter Networking As Consumable As Compute

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It’s a cliché that the pandemic has changed the way we work forever, but it has certainly turned the spotlight on technologies, processes and practices that have reached the end of their useful life.

It has also reinforced the central role of the network and the data center and cloud networks which experienced tremendous traffic demands as newly home-based workers and students piled on to their platform.

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Sponsored Content by Nokia
Originally Published at The Next Platform

Computing Where Data Resides

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Computational storage approaches push power and latency tradeoffs.

Computational storage is starting to gain traction as system architects come to grips with the rising performance, energy and latency impacts of moving large amounts of data between processors and hierarchical memory and storage.

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Published June 29, 2021 – By: Ann Steffora Mutschler
Originally Published at Semi Enginerring