Data centers are the cornerstone of our data-dependent world, much as substations are critical anchors to the electric grid. Power is the lifeline of a data center and by far the biggest expense.

Elsewhere, I have argued that despite all the buzz about micro-data centers at the base of cell towers, the first place “The Edge” will most likely materialize is inside traditional data centers ...

Google is playing catch-up in the cloud, and as such it wants to provide flexibility to differentiate itself from AWS and Microsoft. Today, the company announced a couple of new options to help ...

Most enterprises bring all their redundant data to the cloud, along with the security risk such redundancy creates. Here’s how to fix it When you move, you have a few choices of what to do with all ...

The proliferation of AI dramatically increases the amount of data that needs to be processed, stored, and moved, accelerating the aging of signal paths through which that data travels and forcing ...