Data Center Design Trends 2013

Regardless of how a company is provisioning its underlying IT infrastructure, it’s important to consider a number of new and disruptive technologies. Our data center research has uncovered three technology trends and associated solutions for addressing potential problems: 1) software defined networking, 2) microservers and 3) IT operations analytics. 1) Software-Defined Networking (“SDN”) As IT … Read more

Ashburn Virginia Data Center Supply and Demand Q2, 2013

The nation’s retail and wholesale data center capacity is in modest over-supply in a number of markets due to new capacity coming online as the industry has ramped up in light of changing business conditions and economic progress. The Virginia market, primarily focused around Ashburn, has also been growing rapidly with a little over 2 … Read more

Cobalt Names Jeff Brown President

Industry Veteran to Lead Company and Propel Growth Las Vegas, NV (July 8, 2013) – Cobalt Data Centers, a Las Vegas-based provider of premium co-location and datacenter solutions, today announced the appointment of Jefferson S. Brown as President of the company, effective immediately. The company also announced that Mike Ballard, Cobalt’s previous CEO, has stepped … Read more

Latisys Completes Recent Expansion of Chicago Data Center

Oak Brook Facility Opens 10,000 Square Feet of New High-Density Raised Floor and 1.35 Megawatts of Additional Critical Power CHICAGO – June 3, 2013 — Latisys, a leading provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) announced the commissioning of an additional 10,000 square feet of high-density, raised floor data center space and 1.35 megawatts of … Read more

Nevada Joins Arizona With Southwest U.S. Data Center Tax Incentives

Nevada is the latest state to offer data center providers with tax incentives as a draw to their state. According to a source at the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, and based on information from the legislature, the legislation recently passed is slated to be applicable as of July 1, 2012. Exact detail has not … Read more