The Top 10 Data Center Stories for April 2021

May 3, 2021
April was a Microsoft-centric month at Data Center Frontier, as three of our top five stories track innovation initiatives for the Azure cloud. Here are the 10 most popular stories in April 2021.

April was a Microsoft-centric month at Data Center Frontier, as three of our top five stories track innovation initiatives for the Azure cloud. For the second month in a row, a fire-driven outage was of wide interest to the data center industry, while a foiled bomb plot involving an AWS facility had the attention of the cloud sector – and law enforcement as well, fortunately.

Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in April 2021, in order of article views:

Education is part of our mission at Data Center Frontier. In our Voices of the Industry feature, we share the experience of data center executives on the front lines of innovation. Here’s a look at the most popular Voices columns for DCF readers last month:

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Rich Miller

I write about the places where the Internet lives, telling the story of data centers and the people who build them. I founded Data Center Knowledge, the data center industry's leading news site. Now I'm exploring the future of cloud computing at Data Center Frontier.

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