2023 July

Cover Feature

The industry shares ‘Pandemic Lessons Learned’ at the 7x24 Exchange Spring Conference

July 12, 2023

It happened again — a record-smashing number of industry professionals and students attended the 7x24 Exchange Intl. 2023 Spring Conference, which was held June 4-7 in Orlando, Florida.

Colo and cloud solutions for supply chain challenges

Manufacturing and shipping delays prevent IT departments from deploying new strategies

Kirk Killian

July 11, 2023

To best understand the extent to which supply chain shortages have affected enterprise IT strategies, it’s helpful to evaluate the supply chain delays through two paradigms: one of abundance and another of scarcity.

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First Responders

Tech trends for police agencies

Empowering employees with the right digital tools

Aidan Clifford

June 23, 2023

Forward-thinking law enforcement agencies are leveraging new technologies to support their existing officers.

Maximize efficiencies by avoiding critical lab errors

Nine common mistakes

Christian Olsen

June 22, 2023

Keeping your research and development (R&D) efforts running smoothly depends on a lot of things — teams working in unison, processes being streamlined, errors being reduced, and data remaining accessible.

Data Center Q&A

Securing mission critical communications with Rust

A Q&A with Angelo Corsaro, CEO of ZettaScale

Amy Al-Katib, CDCDP

June 21, 2023

Mission Critical turned to Angelo Corsaro, CEO of ZettaScale, to find out more about the company’s new protocol.

A data center lesson learned

You have to go slow to go fast

Chris Crosby

June 16, 2023

The downside of rushing headlong into an endeavor is the heightened potential for running full speed into missteps that would have been apparent had we taken the time upfront to guard against them.

Cryptocurrency — 'Regulate, or Die'

Mining results in a massive carbon footprint

Melissa Reali-Elliott

June 26, 2023

Taken at face value, the impact of crypto on the environment reveals a massive carbon footprint the size of some small countries.

Generative AI — the good, the bad, and the lazy

Let’s be resourceful about our resources

July 7, 2023

Our blasé attitude toward data consumption is a huge problem — one we can solve but that we seem to be perpetuating instead …

Editor's Pick | Outdoor vacuum circuit breaker — ABB

June 21, 2023

Available for 15-, 27-, and 38-kV units, the housing has been designed to the stringent NEMA 4 rating standards, offering unparalleled protection against even the most severe water and dust ingress.

QUIZ | Downtime

July 5, 2023

Core and edge data center downtime can cost businesses millions — with a major impact on critical applications. This quiz explores the impacts of downtime in core data centers and at the network edge.

Site Solutions

Advanced cooling advances science — one university’s immersion-cooled, supercomputing journey

A Green Revolution Cooling case study

June 19, 2023

Thanks in no small part to single-phase immersion cooling, TACC’s Lonestar6 supercomputer delivers three times the performance than its predecessor — with less space, power, and expense.