As a result, data center infrastructure requirements are prioritized toward major metropolitan hubs. According to McKinsey , over the next three years, 92% of companies plan to increase their AI ...

Data Center Evolution. Private-sector concepts and mainframe computers are a good match for tomorrow. August 12, 2010 • Brian Miller. Facebook; LinkedIn; Twitter; Print; ...

One recent study estimated that a data center failure can cost more than $500,000. That’s per incident. And most data centers aren’t built to handle today’s volume of information. That’s bad news for ...

As mentioned in Wikibon’s “The Data Center: Past, Present and Future” post, “Data centers are at the center of modern software technology, serving a critical role in the expanding capabilities ...

This white paper explains the Ethernet standards’ evolution over the years from supporting home networking to now enabling hyperscale and cloud data center networking. The paper also highlights the ...

The new data center. A new model of data center is emerging, one where it’s not just about collocating IT with bandwidth, but about bringing people and technology together in a truly collaborative ...

Click through for an overview of the evolution of the data center to the cloud, as identified by Ciena. The total amount of information stored today by all the businesses worldwide is 2.2 zettabytes.

Just a decade ago, a 50MW data center was considered massive. Today, that is considered standard. We are now seeing deployments that surpass 500MW and are moving toward gigawatt-scale facilities.

Nowhere is the impact of all this growth being felt more intensely than in data centers. Indeed, hyperscale data centers have become the critical hubs of the global data network. DDR5 DRAM will enable ...

100% of the electricity consumed by IT hardware is converted into heat, but servers don’t like heat. So, you need powerful but efficient data center cooling.

There has also been a change in what is expected from data center engineers on the data center floor, although for slightly differing reasons. Ten years ago, the industry had a vision that our ...