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.

In the 1972 movie The Candidate, Robert Redford plays an idealistic young man who is recruited to run against an incumbent senator.

Sometimes it is hiding in plain site.

Chances are, at one point in your life, you’ve been required to read Samuel Beckett’s magnum opus, Waiting for Godot.

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.

Continued growth is in the cards.

When you were a kid, did your parents ever discourage you from hanging out with “that friend” or “that group of friends”?

We have the same type of cycle in the data center industry: when in doubt, talk about the future of the enterprise data center.

When Jesus said, “Let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone,” what he meant was: “Hey, nobody’s perfect.

I’m actually old enough to remember when people looked forward to airline travel.