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To Deploy Tomorrow’s AI Workflows, Starting Today Is Already Too Late

We find ourselves in an ecosystem where everyone wants to simultaneously leverage new, power-intensive technologies—and even with the feverish pace of data center construction, there ...

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"CoreSite Day" Marks 23 Years of Data Center Evolution

It has been quite a while since my career path led to CoreSite. And as we celebrate 23 years in the data center industry, I have the opportunity to reflect on data center evolution and ...

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Getting Value from AI? The 2024 State of the Data Center Report Could Help

Investments in AI are at an all-time high. Is the money well spent? It depends – are you taking a disciplined approach to AI? Insights from the 2024 State of the Data Center Report by ...

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Colocation: A Sustainable Data Center Alternative

As companies focus more on sustainability and strive to reduce their carbon footprint, the data center has become a focal point – and colocation presents a compelling solution. This ...

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2024 State of the Data Center Report: An Opportunity to Learn from Peers

The 2024 State of the Data Center report marks the fifth year that Foundry (an IDC Inc. company) has surveyed hundreds of CIOs, CTOs and other IT decision-makers to understand their ...

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Don’t Underestimate the Strength of Weak AI

Whether you are aware of it or not, you experience artificial intelligence almost every day. Most likely, it’s Weak AI (also called Narrow AI). For example, if you use a virtual ...

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50G-Enabled Virtual Networks Gaining Traction as Organizations Shift Away from Traditional Fixed Networks

Innovation begets invention. It’s fascinating to see what our customers already are doing with the freedom virtualization and software-defined networking create. Network virtualization ...

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GPU and Bare Metal Service Providers Need Private Networks to Handle AI-Scale Big Data

AI, ML and other data-intensive workloads are making the old definition of big data quaint. Today's Performance Intensive Computing as a Service (PICaaS) providers require networks ...

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EdTech Industry Trends: The Move to Colocation and Cloud Accelerates

In my previous post on EdTech trends, I discussed the rapidly expanding use of state-of-the-industry technologies in educational settings. In this post, I dig deeper into the ...

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