The Top 10 Data Center Stories for August 2021

Sept. 2, 2021
Capital, climate and cooling were the major themes that DCF readers were tracking closely last month. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in August 2021.

Capital, climate and cooling were the major themes that readers of Data Center Frontier were tracking closely last month, as four of our 10 most popular stories focused on mergers or funding for data center providers. These included our trend stories on new investments by infrastructure funds in digital platforms, a look at the strategic impact of five years of M&A, Cyxtera going public through a SPAC deal, and Nautilus raising funds for more water-cooled facilities.

Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in August 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:

  • Are We Headed Toward Lights-Out Data Centers? (Belden): Traditional networks tend not to be as scalable, agile or flexible as they need to be to support automation and lights-out data centers. Shad Secrist, Data Center Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer at Belden, discusses leaf-spine architecture in lights-out data centers.
  • 1+1+1>3 When It’s a Hybrid Multi-Cloud Ecosystem at the Edge (EdgeConneX): It’s not just about the Edge, and it’s not just about the ecosystem. It’s both. It’s the combination that helps service providers reach more enterprises and give them the solutions they need to fully achieve their digital transformation goals. Phillip Marangella, CMO of EdgeConneX, explores how the hybrid multi-cloud ecosystem at the Edge enables enterprises to achieve digital transformation.
  • The 4 Elements That Can Make or Break Your Construction Schedule (ProLift Rigging):One major contributor to the increased speed of data center construction is modularization. Nate Harper, Marketing and Inside Sales Manager at ProLift Rigging, discusses how logistics, storage, transportation, and on-site installation can make or break a modular data center’s construction schedule.

Be sure to check out all of our Voices columns, including insights from Flexential, DataBank and Stream Data Centers,

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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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