The panel discussion featured Carrie Goetz, RCDD, CDCS, CDCP, global director of technology for Paige DataCom Solutions; Enoch Moeller hardware operations site manager for Google; and Kylash Ramesh, management analyst, Division of Facilities Operations & Maintenance for the National Institutes of Health.

This past October I was fortunate to attend two conferences, the 2018 Critical Facilities Summit in Nashville on October 14-16, and the 2018 Fall 7x24 Conference in Phoenix, held October 21-24. Both conferences were filled with great presentations that were thought provoking and worthy of further study.

It all starts with site selection.

Whirling toward the future.

I am really excited this month to introduce Mission Critical Magazine’s edge data center supplement, “The Optimal Edge”. Edge data centers, according to Sunbird, meet four different criteria.

Data protection has been in the news a lot lately from Facebook selling its users’ data to Cambridge Analytica to the upcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law. Data protection is getting complicated.

It’s all about the money and that is a good thing.

Earlier this year at the OCP Summit 2017, Facebook announced a refresh of its server hardware fleet and will share the design specifications on the Open Compute Project site so everyone can benefit.

Cloud computing has come a long way and so has Cloud Strategy Magazine.

According to Gartner, worldwide public cloud adoption is set to grow 18% in 2017.