Across a wide range of industries and applications, the world’s data needs continue to expand at an unprecedented rate. From finance to oil and gas to health care to agriculture, data has become a vital component of day-to-day operations across all industries; as data needs increase, so too does the pressure on mission critical systems to support data storage and processing.

Design system sequencing to endure extreme conditions. Initial planning and design decisions for a 9-1-1 call center relate to technical issues that keep a center’s systems functioning during emergencies threatening its operation.

If Darwin were writing about data centers, he’d say that the abodes of compute and storage are going through a phase of rapid evolution, and it’s this evolution that is driving the massive degree of projected growth in data centers over the coming years.

The number of data centers in the United States continues to grow in response to the enormous amount of digital information stored and streamed.

It’s no secret that society’s appetite for information keeps developing at a breakneck pace. Mobile data traffic continues to grow.

Energy efficient, renewable, sustainable, carbon neutral, and of course the catch-all, going green — all make for great sound bites, but how do we really quantify how well we are doing in the age of gigawatt scale data centers?