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Digital Supply Chains, Digital-First Thinking and Future-Proofing

Conversations about digital transformation increasingly include questions about digital supply chain – a newish concept. Here’s our take on it.

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How to Gauge Your Data Center Customer Experience

The customer experience can make or break a business. Across all industries, customers have options. If one business does not satisfy their needs, another is waiting with open arms to ...

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Future-Proofing Healthcare IT with Compliant, Network-Rich Data Centers

Healthcare providers are expected to deliver world-class patient care while cutting costs and growing revenue. To meet these demands, healthcare organizations are increasingly relying ...

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Conquering Supply Chain Uncertainty with Bare Metal

Supply chain disruptions are causing lead times as long as 52-weeks for data center switches, routers and servers. That trend began a few years ago, when the demand for equipment ...

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Optimizing Workloads for IT Modernization

“The mix is getting mixier,” said IDG Analyst John Gallant about five minutes into a webinar on hybrid IT trends identified in the 2021 State of the Data Center Report. That caught my ...

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Supporting Remote Work with Colocation

When COVID-19 burst onto the scene in March 2020, IT departments raced to provide a suddenly distributed workforce with the necessary resources to perform their jobs from outside the ...

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Why Colocation Data Center Compliance Creates Customer Value

When colocation data centers are compliant, customers can operate with the confidence that their colocated business is compliant. But there’s more to the story. Compliance influences ...

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Hybrid IT Vocabulary 101: A Glossary for Building Your Knowledgebase

Where you deploy your IT infrastructure matters when your goals include agility, scalability, performance, security, cost and resilience. IT leaders are taking a fresh look at hybrid ...

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Data Centers are Incubating the Digital Economy and Hybrid Cloud Growth in Silicon Valley

In the Bay Area, Silicon Valley is known as California’s technology hub. Today, many people include San Francisco when they reference Silicon Valley. Born in Santa Clara, I reference ...

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