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Colocation: Big changes ahead in 2018

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Posted by Alan Weckel on March 27, 2018
Tags • 400G • Cloud • Colocation • Data Center Interconnect • DCI
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The colocation market continues to expand rapidly, driven by a wide range of customers, including hyperscalers, enterprises, telco service providers, cable MSOs, and the Tier 2/3 cloud. In 2017, enterprises moved in significant quantities over to colocation providers in order to have better access to their peers, direct connect to the cloud, flexibility, and to move the non-core expertise of designing and building data centers to someone else ...

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The end of net neutrality: Who's poised to win and lose?

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Posted by Alan Weckel on February 08, 2018
Tags • Colocation • Data Center Interconnect • DCI • Net Neutrality
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As we start 2018, we see various states joining businesses and other stakeholders in looking to push back on the decision of the FCC's Ajit Pai to kill net neutrality. There have been countless studies showing that internet access, especially high-speed internet access, helps drive GDP growth and that the internet, by its nature, should be something that is consistent and treats all users the same without preferential treatment based on what traffic they are running or whether they pay more for that traffic ...

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Why Fiber Optics Is Now Essential to the Enterprise

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Posted by Arthur Cole on August 23, 2017
Tags • 5G • Big Data Analytics • Cloud • Colocation • Data Center Connectivity • Data Centers • DCI • Enterprise • Exabytes • Fiber Optics • HCI • Hyperconverged Infrastructure • Hyperscale • Internet of Things • IoT • Mobile • Terabytes
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Data loads are getting larger, data ecosystems are becoming more distributed and data users are demanding real-time performance. For the enterprise, this is the triple-play of bad news because it puts the pressure on legacy network architectures to function in ways that their designers could scarcely imagine ...
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Head North for the Data Center Gold Rush

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Posted by Dieter Will on March 14, 2017
Tags • Cloud Connectivity • Colocation • Data Center Cooling • Data Center Interconnect • Data Centers • DCI • Disaster Recovery • Encryption • Energy Efficiency • Green Data Centers • Nordic Data Centers • Open Line System • Openness • Physical Layer Encryption • Sustainable Energy
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Across Europe and beyond, businesses are moving their mission-critical data to the Nordics. With cheaper land prices and cold conditions ideal for cooling servers, the cost advantages offered by data centers in Scandinavia and the Baltics are impossible to ignore. Even more significant is the low price of electricity, which makes running a data center near the North Pole incredibly efficient – in many cases, up to 50% cheaper when compared with central Europe ...
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Northern Europe's Small Data Centers Are in a Uniquely Powerful Position

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Posted by Dieter Will on October 31, 2016
Tags • Business Continuity • Colocation • Data Center • Data Center Connectivity • Data Center Interconnect • DCI • Disaster Recovery • Encryption • Energy Efficiency • Low Latency • Nordic Data Centers • Physical Layer Encryption
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In recent years, we’ve seen a huge boom in the number of businesses – both big and small – looking to invest in Nordic data centers. Perhaps the two most recognizable names to build facilities in and around the “Node Pole” are Google, which opened a huge data center in Hamina on Finland’s southern coastline, and Facebook, that opened its first data center outside the US in Luleå, Sweden. The rush to locate these facilities near the Arctic Circle is no coincidence ...
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