Hear what Zachary Smith, head of edge infrastructure at Equinix and president of the board of directors at Open19 Foundation, thinks about data center sustainability.
This shift to the cloud has reduced the burden and, in some cases, the costs for IT managers and enabled companies to provide an improved experience for customers and employees. But, that’s not the whole story.
Mission Critical is excited to bring back the Women in Technology contest. Whether they’re designing data centers, installing the equipment, or answering phone calls in an office far away from any whitespace, every woman in the industry is eligible.
There’s a lot to consider when it comes to choosing a colocation facility — like data center proximity, telecom latency, business continuity, employee availability, and environmental and economic factors, to name a few. Take this quiz to see how much you know about colo selection and procurement best practices.
BoFiNet is uniquely positioned to revolutionize Botswana’s telecommunications network with an IXP designed to both increase efficiency and synergy for network and services companies and drive down the cost of communications.
As new data centers are designed to scale out in the future to add more servers, network designers should plan for a fiber infrastructure that anticipates any higher data rates and longer distances down the line.
These solutions — composed of racks, bus bars, power cords, and power shelves built to the latest OCP standards — can be used off the shelf or as reference designs for fully customized solutions to meet the needs of a range of IT environments.
Technology is supposed to make the world a better place, not end it. Instead of focusing all of our energy on finding ways to get around the sustainability issue with more efficient cooling and IT equipment, let's focus on the issue: It's us.