Celebrating Good Netizenship in Denver and Beyond
Nearly three decades after the public debut of the World Wide Web, internet use, broadband adoption and smartphone ownership have grown rapidly for most but not all Americans. While many aspects of the digital divide have narrowed across metro and rural regions of the...
Targeting Edge Markets in the Southeast, DC BLOX Brings Technology and Innovation to Birmingham, Alabama
Originally posted to Data Center POST At a press conference that took place on July 9, in Birmingham, Alabama, Jeff Uphues, Chief Executive Officer of DC BLOX, narrated a journey that began on a rainy August night when he and his colleagues stood before a worn and...
High-Performance Fiber Networks and the Path to Digital Transformation
Originally posted to Data Center POST Digital transformation is putting intense pressure on legacy network infrastructures that simply weren’t designed for today’s bandwidth-intensive applications. Cloud computing, mobility and Big Data analytics all demand a robust...
A Shining Light for In-Building Systems
NEDAS Boston Interview with Dean Fresonke, Co-Founder and SVP of Business Development of ClearSky Technologies, Inc. By Caroline Kurdej Dean Fresonke is the Executive Vice President of Business Development and co-founder of ClearSky Technologies. Dean manages...
The Impact of 5G Technology on the Telecommunications Infrastructure Industry
Telecom Newsroom Interview with Ray Crews, Jr., Director of Strategy and Analysis, Enterprise Networking Solutions By Caroline Kurdej Ray Crews, Jr. is the Director of Strategy and Analysis for the Enterprise Networking Solutions portfolio of ExteNet Systems. Ray...
Enabling the Next Generation of Wireless Technology With Advanced Network Architecture
Telecom Newsroom Interview with Ray LaChance, President and CEO, ZenFi Networks By Caroline Kurdej As President and Chief Executive Officer of ZenFi Networks, Ray LaChance applies proven industry management expertise to deliver cutting-edge communication network...
Crossing Barriers of Time and Distance
Telecom Newsroom Interview with Rick Angelini, Director-Network Engineering and Implementation of ExteNet Systems By Caroline Kurdej As the Director of Network Engineering and Implementation at ExteNet Systems, Rick Angelini is an eight-year engineering and...
Exploring the Impact of Innovative Networking Technologies
NEDAS Boston Interview with Karl May, Founder and CEO of Join By Caroline Kurdej With more than two decades of IT industry experience, Karl May is the Founder and CEO of Join, the Digital Concierge built on a secure national network to deliver IT on-demand to flexible...
Staying Ahead of the Technological Curve
Telecom Newsroom Interview with Patrick Coughlin, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Chief Revenue Officer of FirstLight Fiber By Caroline Kurdej As Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of FirstLight Fiber, Patrick Coughlin is...
Birmingham, Alabama, a Key Edge Growth Market, Is About to Ramp Up Its Participation in the Digital Economy
Edge data centers remain a hot category in data center site selection, which will continue into 2018 and beyond, according to a recent report MarketsandMarkets. Consumer demand for high bandwidth services and business demand for high capacity needs such as the...
Enhancing Efficiency With Hyperconverged IT Strategies
Originally posted to Data Center POST By Konstantin Borman, CEO Data Centre Services, Chayora The demand for high-quality data hosting both in public and private cloud environments is surging across all industry sectors. A growing number of multinational enterprises...
As China Launches Artificial Intelligence Initiatives, the Country’s Data Center Sector Is Undergoing Significant Development
Originally posted to Data Center POST China, a nation of 1.4 billion people, is an enormous market, representing more than 20 percent of the world’s online community. Additionally, China’s major cloud service providers, including Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, are poised...
A Simpler Way for State-Funded Organizations to Procure Cloud and Infrastructure Services
The New York State Office of General Services (NYS OGS) provides essential services to the state, its local partners and the general public. Among these services, the New York State OGS manages and leases real property, designs and builds facilities, contracts for...
Progressive Data Center Providers Pursue Sustainable Operations in Their Commitment to Environmental Responsibility
It’s well known that some data centers consume copious amounts of energy to run and maintain servers, computer systems and other high-performance networking equipment. According to a report on energy efficiency by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in the...
Enterprise On-Demand SDNs: Consuming Networks as Easily as Swiping Right
Originally posted to Top Operator by Jezzibell Gilmore, Software-Defined Networks, or SDNs, have arrived, and they are beginning to shake up telecom business models and create new opportunities. Here’s our quick assessment of the four major categories of SDN we see:...
Corning Introduces Software-Defined Technology Solution to Address Increasing Connectivity and Bandwidth Demands
Corning, NY | Corning Incorporated | July 10, 2018 -- Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced the launch of the Optical Network Evolution SD-LAN solution, which applies software-defined technology benefits of adaptability, scalability, and intelligence to the...
DataGryd to speak at Data Center Investment Conference & Expo, Northeast
July 11, 2018 -- DataGyrd, a leader in data center development and operations in Manhattan, announces today that its Senior Vice President of Operations, Arthur Valhuerdi, will speak at Data Center Investment Conference & Expo, Northeast, taking place July 26, in...
Edge Infrastructure and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Originally posted to Data Center POST In a recent article that appeared in Light Reading, “Time for an Edge Computing Reckoning,” Senior Editor Mari Silbey addressed the subject of edge infrastructure, especially where it concerned near-futuristic applications such as...
Northern Virginia, Already the Largest U.S. Data Center Market, Is Poised for More Growth
The data center industry is changing fast and the Northern Virginia regional market is no exception. Since the earliest days of the Internet, Northern Virginia has been at the epicenter of IT growth. Northern Virginia is considered the busiest Internet intersection...
Solving Missouri’s Digital Divide
Originally posted to Data Center POST Missouri, like many states across the U.S., is striving to provide its rural residents with access to high-speed broadband. By the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) definition, high-speed Internet is 25 Mbps download and 3...