Efficient Data Center Summit | Free Online Event

Join WiredRE and some of the world’s most innovative IT infrastructure and operations professionals for this interactive online event. End-users, analysts and other experts will present the latest solutions for increasing efficiency and maximizing availability in the data center. Key topics will include efficiency metrics, capacity management, cloud strategy, and storage efficiency. Presentations include: Creating … Read more

Data Center Real Estate Available at WiredRE, Five MW of Distressed

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2011 /Data Center Real Estate News/ — Wired Real Estate Group Inc. (‘WiredRE’), the nation’s leading data center planning, search, and finance firm, announced today their exclusive assignment to market four MW of wholesale, turnkey data center services that have been made redundant by virtualization and global consolidation as well as … Read more

Data Center Finance, Investing, and Real Estate Development Forum

I wanted to pass along an update on IMN Data Centers Forum on Financing, Investing, & Real Estate Development, scheduled for May 23-24 at the Marriott Magnificent Mile in Chicago. Their Inaugural DC Forum held this past November in Los Angeles, was a tremendous success w/ nearly 250 folks in attendance, featuring DC Developers/Operators/Owners, Tenants, … Read more

DATA CENTER DILEMMA AND DCRE GROUP RECEPTION

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1177 Airport Blvd, Burlingame, California April 28, 2011 – 1:00 PM TO 6:00 PM – Click to REGISTER – -Registration Starts at 12:30 PM – – KEYNOTE 10GBASE-T for Broad 10Gigabit Adoption in the Data Center Presented by Carl Hansen, Intel Designing and Retrofitting for Flexibility Presented by Carrie higbie, Global Director, … Read more

Cloud, Colocation, and Data Center Real Estate Analysis

With the maturation of the IT infrastructure business, solution sets for any given need have multiplied and produced an alphabet soup of viable alternatives. IaaS, Cloud, Colo, PaaS, Container, etc., all serve essentially the same need for infrastructure services. Processor level advances have solved many problems, and now bottlenecks have emerged elsewhere in the solution … Read more

Video and the Disruption of the Internet Hierarchy

I was recently reminded of the genius of Bill Norton, one of the founders of Equinix and now proprietor of DrPeering.com. Bill wrote back in 2008 about how the next wave of “disruptive” traffic growth would be 10X the first wave of 2001, and he also postulated several Internet Hierarchies that might evolve, namely: 1. … Read more

TEN KEYS TO (PROVIDER) WHOLESALE DATA CENTER SUCCESS

I had the opportunity to speak with Geoff Hampson late last year regarding the data center market. If you don’t know Geoff, he has been the captain of the ship at several retail brands including Peer 1 Network and CoreLink Data Centers. Geoff had a few things to say about the current environment, “It used … Read more