Data Center

Feature "Green IT"

Reducing the Bill for Powering the Digital Economy

For both the environment and company OPEX, power consumption cannot increase at the same speed as computing power. Judith Ellis explores what data center operators and company IT professionals can do to create efficiencies.

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Feature "Industrial IoT"

Driving Digital Transformation

Forecasts of social disintegration and wide-spread unemployment caused by Industrial IoT are a melodramatic overreaction stemming from the fear of change. To the horseshoe smithy, the car also posed an existential threat – but does that mean we should return to the dark ages? Judith Ellis explores the attitudes to digital transformation, the challenges from smaller companies, and the steps needed to make it a success.

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Feature "Connectivity"

Connectivity as a Key Differentiator for Data Centers

Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX, on the value of quality connectivity services for enterprises and data centers.

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Feature "Blockchain"

What Can Blockchain Do For You?

“The Internet never forgets!” Although untrue, this statement reminds people to think twice before putting information online – and out of their control. The advent of blockchain changes everything. Blockchain forgets nothing – and it brings back content control. Mathias Röckel looks at the potential of this new technology for innovative commercial enterprise, as well as for Internet infrastructure providers.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Digital Infrastructure is Fundamental to Economic Growth in Europe - doteditorial

Dr. Béla Waldhauser from the eco Association looks at the digital infrastructure requirements for Europe to remain competitive in the global digital economy

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

doteditorial: Economic Engine – Digital Infrastructure

Digital infrastructures encourage growth and employment on location and have a comparable economic importance to streets, public transportation networks, and water and power supply. Data centers in particular form the basis of the digitalization of society and the economy and provide the foundations for successful metropolitan areas.

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Feature "Data Center"

Data Center Models and Their Customers

Data centers may be powerhouses of the digital economy, but they come in all shapes and sizes, with different services models, different business models, and different locational advantages. dotmagazine asked Dr. Béla Waldhauser, from the Alliance for Strengthening Digital Infrastructures in Germany, to unravel the complexities and explain what kind of customer business cases are most appropriate for what kind of data center.

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Feature "Data Center"

doteditorial April 2017

Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Leader of the eco Competence Group Datacenter Infrastructure, on powering and greening IT.

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Feature "Risk Assessment"

Understanding and Mitigating Risks to Data Center Operation

Given the strategic value of data centers to digital transformation, it is important for data center operators to have a very clear view of the risks they face – ranging from DDoS to the GDPR – according to Gerd Simon, Independent Consultant and Lead Auditor for the eco Datacenter Star Audit.

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Feature "Doing Business in Germany"

Energy is Expensive in Germany – Can This Be a Good Thing?

The high cost of energy in Germany is a result of the country’s transition from fossil fuels and atomic energy to renewables. This could be seen as a marker for a poor market environment – or the opposite, as Mathias Röckel explains.

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Feature "Data Center"

The Colocation Boom-Within-a-Boom in Frankfurt

Independent consultant Gerd Simon in conversation with Dr. Béla Waldhauser, CEO of Telehouse and KDDI Deutschland, on the booming colocation market in Frankfurt, declarations of war, and keeping up with demand for data center capacities.

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Feature "Innovation in Power Solutions"

Blackouts, Renewable Energy, and Powering IT Reliably

Volatile renewable energy is increasingly important for national and internationally connected power grids, but, according to Judith Ellis, care is needed to provide stable power for critical infrastructure and sensitive IT processes.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

Data Centers in the Transformation to Sustainable Energy Consumption

As data centers become ever larger consumers of energy, they have the chance to play a key role in shaping the move towards using more renewable energy and the future energy market. Staffan Reveman of Reveman Energy Academy looks at the hurdles ahead and possible symbioses for data center energy consumption.

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Feature "Data Center"

Finding Specialist Staff to Power Data Center Growth

Demand is growing worldwide so fast that data centers can’t be built and staffed fast enough. Dr. Béla Waldhauser from KDDI Deutschland explains the challenges and provides a perspective for the future of data center operations.

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