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Data centers are growing in numbers. With an exponential growth in access to internet and computers, data has become an unavoidable thing in the life of any individual. Everything has been digitized now, from your photography images to the receipt […]

With concerns around the conservation of the environment, global warming and increased CO2 emissions, green technologies are seeing tremendous growth in research, interest and uptake. Just like how green buildings came in the spotlight a few years back with the […]

It’s a new world. At the push of a button, we can access all our old photos, or go on any website at any time of the day or night, but all that comes at a cost—it takes a lot […]

UPDATE (April 2016): Project Natick is about to get larger. Project leader Ben Cutler told a New York conference in late April 2016 that the program is ready for the big leagues. This means that the testing they’ve done (detailed […]

There’s no surprise that information security has been a big topic in recent headlines. Over the past two decades everyone from retail stores to government agencies have fallen under the shade of the wily black hat. As a result, this […]

The 5th Annual Top 5 Most Influential Women in the Data Center Industry List Over the last 4 years I have had the privilege of celebrating International Women’s Day with an article on the Top 5 Most Influential Women in […]

It may come to no surprise to you, the reader, that we here at Colocation America like to talk, from time-to-time about colocation. It’s pretty important to our business—but really, it’s important to the data-centric world we live in. That’s […]

Data centers are becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s technological landscape. They range from single-server rooms used by small businesses to gigantic server farms relied upon by companies such as Amazon that offer cloud computing access. However, one surprising revelation that […]

Some people are just Mac people, right? And that’s ok—we make no judgements here. Mac OS, however, is not the first thing that comes to mind when discussing common operating systems inside a data center. Those are typically Linux and […]