BUILDING A SUPERHIGHWAY TO SERVE THE DIGITAL ECONOMY  

DATA CENTER POST INTERVIEW WITH NIGEL BAYLIFF, CEO, AQUA COMMS DAC

Data Center POST recently spoke with Nigel Bayliff, CEO of Aqua Comms DAC, the operator of Ireland’s first dedicated subsea fibre-optic network interconnecting New York, Dublin and London, about the company’s new initiatives, its immediate plans to pursue new subsea cable builds, and the current state of the market.

THE IMPACT OF DATA HEALTH MANAGEMENT 

Big data continues to get bigger, and with it the value of this data grows, as well. But with this growth comes a struggle for many businesses to maintain and organize this data, as well as keep it secure—much less derive value from its content. In this era, data health management is key.

CLOUDBOOM: LEASING, LAND DEALS SURGE IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA

The growth of cloud computing continues to transform the landscape in “Data Center Alley,” the fast-growing data center hub in Northern Virginia. The appetite for cloud capacity has prompted a burst of data center leasing and land deals, as data center developers lay the groundwork for the next phase of cloud growth.

NEW JERSEY DATA CENTER MARKET SEES RETURN TO GROWTH

It’s no surprise the New Jersey data center market has grown over the past few years. Even with the threat of oversupply two years ago, the market has continued to see demand and activity from data center users and operators.

WHITE PAPER: SDDC SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE COVERAGE

BY EDWARD L. HALETKY, CEO AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT THE VIRTUALIZATION PRACTICE

Software-defined storage (SDS) is not storage that is provisioned via automation. It is not even storage that is created via automation. While automation figures into software-defined storage, SDS is more about the data than it is about storage.