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Voxility Ramps Up Its Expansion with a PoP in Equinix’s Dallas Facility DA3

This increases the company’s US presence to eight core hubs, offering customers private IaaS solutions

August 26, 2021

Voxility expanded its footprint in the U.S. with the launch of a point of presence (PoP) in the Equinix DA3 facility in Dallas.

Quantum Loophole’s Sylvia Kang Named One of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology

Kang joins the ranks of women in executive positions at companies, including Equinix, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and T-Mobile, Among Others

May 5, 2021

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The award recognizes the achievements of women nationwide who are breaking barriers and setting standards for themselves and others in the technology space.

Data Center Site Selection

Evolving to better serve

Jennifer Reininger

June 19, 2020

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Identifying a new location for a data center is not only a critical decision, it can have extreme consequences for all departments.

Design-Build Team Achieves Data Center Firsts for Michigan

Achieving Tier III certification on a tight schedule

June 9, 2020

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Granger Construction, Integrated Design Solutions, IBI Group, Motor City Electric, and Conti Corp. made history, as their design-build data center project became the first in the state of Michigan to receive Uptime Institute’s Tier III Certification for both design and constructed facilities.

We're Getting Closer to the Edge

There are a lot of changes in store for 2020

Matt Lamont

April 10, 2020

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What do we ask of a site when we are faced with designing something that has never before been designed and that has no precedent? What would CSI's Gil Grissom do?

Data Center Site Selection Quiz

Dave Fanning

March 11, 2020

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A multitude of variables come into play when selecting the right data center location — from the cost of doing business (think taxes, real estate, and power) to network connectivity, latency, regional infrastructure planning, and more. Find out how much you know by taking this site selection quiz from Cushman & Wakefield.

The Death of the Island Fortress

Data center site selection in the 21st century

Bill Mazzetti

February 25, 2020

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While they started out like lab spaces in the ’70s, data centers evolved. By the ’90s, most had transformed into enterprise-owned, purpose-built, “island fortresses” with all data held inside.

The Industrial Age of Hyperscale

The three-legged stool of getting to today’s hyperscale TCO

Paul E. Schlattman

January 20, 2020

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Within a short time frame, hyperscale data centers have gone from being designed with a typical wholesale data center layout to industrial-level design.

Nowhere To Go But Up In Data Center Design

The challenge facing data center construction for mission critical industries.

Chris McLean, P.E.

February 25, 2019

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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.