The Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining traction across many industries including data centers. vXchnge, a provider of carrier-neutral colocation services, actively leverages innovative solutions and engineering best practices to achieve efficient and sustainable operations.
While attending the DCD Enterprise conference in NYC in May, I was amazed at the number of presentations and vendor booths highlighting edge computing, 5G, and digital transformation.
First and foremost, edge is a computer science and network dynamic. We contend that edge will eventually be productized as a service, much like the cloud.
Our reliance on technology grows more and more every day. Most of us would be lost without our mobile devices. From accessing email, to surfing the web, to streaming online videos and music, we have the luxury of these services readily available and at the touch of a button.
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.
As compelling as the title may have seemed, it turns out that the story read a lot like one of those mystery novels where it’s obvious who did it after the first page or two. If you, like me, guessed big cloud guys, consider yourself a member in good standing in the Hercule Poirot society of data center detectives.
Traditionally, anthropologists would travel to a faraway land and live among a group of people so as to learn as much about their culture and ways of life as possible.