Deliver a Service, Not Just a Facility A data center project is successful only when the completed environment can deliver the intended service safely and reliably. Construction milestones, installed equipment, and powered racks are important, but they are not the final outcome. The project must con...

Hong Kong a desirable data center location despite political and pandemic troubles Hong Kong’s data center market remains strong despite political tensions and pandemic troubles around the world, making it the third most attractive data center region in the entire Asia Pacific region. Real estate fi...

Power Resilience Is an End-to-End Design Question Data center availability depends on more than the rated capacity of the utility connection. Power must travel through a chain of equipment, controls, procedures, and people before it reaches a server, switch, storage system, or cooling unit. A resili...

The Emergence of New Technologies Has Led Data Centers to On-Board Optical Interconnects Due to the open structural space, the prospect of on-board optical interconnection is bright. The iteration of technology allows miniaturized and low-power pluggable optics to eventually be replaced by Consortiu...

Commissioning Connects Construction to Reliable Service Data center commissioning is the disciplined process of proving that a completed facility and its supporting systems can deliver the intended service safely and repeatably. It is more than turning on equipment after construction. Commissioning ...

Data Protection Is a Service Responsibility In a hybrid cloud environment, data may be stored and processed across on-premises systems, hosted infrastructure, public cloud services, software-as-a-service applications, employee endpoints, and partner platforms. This distribution can improve flexibili...

100G data centers are maturing, no matter from which angle, the technologies are getting more and more perfect. The 100G data centers can already carry most of the things we want, but at most it only loads the memory and spiritual food of human life—we do see some computations, but such computations...

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Data Management Is an Operating Model Enterprise data management is often described as a storage or analytics task, but dependable outcomes require a broader operating model. Data is created by applications, devices, users, and business processes; it moves across networks and integrations; it is sto...

Plan Technology Around Business Outcomes Enterprise IT planning is most useful when it connects technology decisions with the services the organisation must deliver. Cloud adoption, edge computing, automation, AI, cyber security, data platforms, network upgrades, and hardware refreshes are not indep...

Dr. Vipul Bhatt Presents at IPC 2020 on the Future of Multimode Links for Datacenters In this presentation we discuss the future of multimode links for datacenters.  We begin by highlighting an often ignored but proven fact that for short reaches, VCSEL-based optical transceivers are the most c...

Network Resilience Is a Service Discipline Modern organisations depend on networks that extend beyond a single office or data center. Customer services, cloud applications, identity systems, remote users, suppliers, DNS, internet providers, collaboration platforms, and security tools can all be part...