We live in a highly connected era. But what does that really mean? The science and deployment of fiber optics, which plays a basic role in today’s connectivity, can be hard to comprehend. Light, for instance, travels at ...
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March 26, 2021
Now that construction is complete, we're going to bring you regular updates on some of the features of our Chicago data center. Maintaining Optimal Temperature with our Fan Walls Maintaining optimal temperatures in a data vault is essential to keeping critical infrastructure up and...
March 26, 2021
To celebrate Women's History Month, we asked our female executives to share who has inspired them, their thoughts on women who came before them in the industry, and advice for women beginning their careers. Brittany Miller, Vice President of Construction Q: Who...
March 26, 2021
Stay up to date on the latest news and milestones from our new Hillsboro data center campus currently under construction. September 2021 Are those little porous rocks inside the Hillsboro HI1 vault? Not quite - they’re 100 percent recycled glass foam. Finding a...
March 26, 2021
Now that construction is complete, we're going to bring you regular updates on some of the features of our Silicon Valley data center. Structured Redundancy in Design Keeping data centers operational at all times is critical in today’s world. That’s why having structured redundancy...
March 4, 2021
Bruno Berti, VP of Product Management, and Chris Sachse, Global Sales Engineer, sat down for a Q&A session during the virtual grand opening of our new Chicago and Hillsboro Data Centers in February. Watch the video below for the entire Q&A, or check out a few top questions and answers...
February 19, 2021
There are dozens of resources and articles to help you find the right data center partner. However, few address the ins and outs of day one of your deployment. What happens? Who can help you get set up quickly? Where does your equipment get dropped off? That's just the beginning....
February 3, 2021
Bruno Berti, VP of Product Management, joined a panel at the DatacenterDynamics event, Datacenter-as-a-Service, to discuss how the pandemic impacted customer requirements for data center space, how providers worked with customers preparing for unpredictable capacity limits due to the pandemic,...
January 12, 2021
London 1 Data Center is now open for business. A small, opening tour and photo call (with social distancing, of course) took place in December to commemorate the event. We also held a virtual event to showcase the data center along with a roundtable to discuss key data center and UK market...
December 10, 2020
Data is the most valuable commodity of our time. It is the lifeblood of today’s business and commerce and this will only become more true. Humans created around 60 zettabytes of data in 2020 alone. By 2025 that figure will shoot up to 175 zettabytes. Where is all this data being stored? Data...
