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Software-Defined Data Center Market to Reach $235 Billion

The software-defined data center market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $40 billion to over $235 billion by 202...

FiberRise and Quadra Form Exclusive Partnership

FiberRise Communications formed an exclusive partnership with Quadra Partners to assist electric co-ops in obtaining funding from the FCC...

vXchnge Partners With Tier4 Advisors

Tier4 will offer vXchnge colocation and other data-center-as-a-service (DCaaS) solutions throughout the company’s service footprint.

NEC Joins The Valuable 500

NEC Corp. joined The Valuable 500, pledging to support its efforts and vision going forward.

Digital Realty Expands Board of Directors

Digital Realty announced the appointment of retired Lt. Gen. VeraLinn "Dash" Jamieson and Alexis Black Bjorlin, Ph.D., to its board of di...

Anana Deploys Pluribus Networks for Multisite Data Center Modernization

Anana Ltd. deployed Pluribus Networks’ Netvisor ONE operating system and Adaptive Cloud Fabric, along with Dell EMC Open Networking hardw...

FNTS Recommends Organizations 'Make the Shift' Ahead of Upcoming Microsoft Changes

On Jan. 14 Microsoft will end its support for Windows 7 operating systems, and it will do the same for Microsoft Office 2010 by the end o...

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Energy

The Industrial Age of Hyperscale

Paul E. Schlattman

Within a short time frame, hyperscale data centers have gone from being designed with a typical wholesale data center layout to industrial-level design. …

Facility Design

ASHRAE Guideline 1.6: Data Center Commissioning

Terry L. Rodgers CPE, CPMP

ASHRAE, a global nonprofit membership organization with more than 57,000 members in more than 130 countries worldwide, has been leading the engineering and development of facility standards and guidelines for 120-plus years. …

Management

Optical Cabling in the Data Center: Preventing Problems Through Testing

Tyler Vander Ploeg, RCDD

The seamless interconnect of data center facilities is needed to deliver lightning-fast speeds, and yet internet content providers (ICPs) have grown at such a rate there has barely been enough …

Unconventional Wisdom

Questions About Driverless Cars and the IT Infrastructure Behind Them

Chris Crosby

I just read an article about the inexorable march to a future filled with driverless cars. Based on past history, things seem to be moving forward as one might expect. …

Cloud Strategy

2020 Predictions

Amy Al-Katib

Mission Critical magazine spoke with several industry experts — on topics ranging from cybersecurity and the upcoming election to 5G and cloud service selection — to catch a glimpse of …

Power

Ensuring Uptime and Electrical Safety When Disaster Strikes

Ed Spears Harold Ruckpaul

Whether enterprise, colocation, or edge data centers, no other facility is host to the sheer amount of business-critical information that data centers hold, and, therefore, no other facility faces as …

Cloud Strategy

Hybrid IT Is the New Carrier Hotel

Mark Gaydos

Fire up the Wayback Machine, and let’s travel back to the year 1996 — the time when the Telecommunications Act paved a competitive pathway for traditional phone companies and internet …

Operation Hyperscale

The eStruxture team sought a partner to help build out its MTL-2 colocation facility with highly resilient electrical and mechanical infrastructure in a phased, modular approach.

New Products

Air Quality Indicator Card — Technology Care LLC

Technology Care launched AirCheckup DATA, an air quality card for data centers that changes color when exposed to particulate matter and corrosive gases.

Classifieds

New Products

Ethernet Connectors — Stewart Connector

Stewart Connector, a Bel Group company, introduced single-port and multiport RJ45 connectors to support 2.5G Base-T Ethernet communications.

Facility Design

Aspirating Fire Detection in Data Centers

Carlo Chatman

Fire is the second-leading cause of failure (after power issues), according to a 2015 Capitoline survey, and the risk is increasing as greater power densities (20-plus kW per rack) are housed in more confined spaces.

Columns

Cultivating a Deep Learning Edge

Innovators of deep learning algorithms and applications need access to high-performance computing (HPC), leading to an urgent question for any cutting-edge startup: What kind of HPC resources are most cost-effective for the development and delivery of AI-based analytics products?

New Products

Combination Filter — Filtration Group HVAC

The AEROSTAR FP Dual-Pak by Filtration Group HVAC is a combination filter that achieves MERV 15 particulate performance level while containing significant amounts of activated and impregnated carbon to remove nuisance odors and gaseous pollutants alike.

Mission Critical Magazine

2019 November/December

This issue of Mission Critical, we focus on cabling solutions, total cost of ownership, the real cost high-speed migration, hybrid IT strategies, and more. The 2020 Buyer’s Guide is also featured for your convenience.

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