Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, data centers are changing and adapting to the ‘new normal’ By Amanda Brooks Data centers are evolving and it’s important to keep up with the changes! Less Travel: Equinix, the world’s largest colocation provider, struggled during the pandemic’s travel restrictions and lockdowns. Jon Lin, president of the Americas for Equinix said that the most obvious adjustment was that customers could no longer travel to Equinix facilities. Many companies do not […]
Milldam Public Relations President Adam Waitkunas attended 7×24 Exchange earlier this week in Phoenix, Arizona. The tech industry is booming in Phoenix, making it an extremely desirable location. This conference was designed for anyone involved with 7×24 infrastructures – IT, data center, disaster recovery, cyber security and network/ telecommunication managers, computer technologists, facility or building managers, supervisors, and engineers.
Revisiting Data Center Crisis Communications Yesterday, we released the October edition of the Milldam Monthly. This month’s newsletter highlighted the importance of preparing for a crisis. Facebook’s recent outage has renewed the industry’s attention to data center downtime and how outages are handled. Getting in front of a negative story while keeping the lines of communication open for all stakeholders, and ensuring that employees are not going rogue can help lessen the blow to corporate […]
Former RF Code executive tapped to lead marketing; former Dell Technologies engineer becomes GRC’s first EU-based solutions architect October 19, 2021 11:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time AUSTIN, Texas & DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), the leader in single-phase liquid immersion cooling for data centers, announced today the next steps in expanding their global presence with the addition of an industry marketing professional at their headquarters, and a new solutions architect located in Ireland to address the […]
First location in Rhode Island will provide additional high-speed connectivity options to the southern New England tech space October 18, 2021 09:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time PROVIDENCE, R.I.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone announced today that Hurricane Electric has deployed a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Irontrust Prov.net PVD2 data center in Providence. The new PoP is located 304 Carpenter Street, Providence, RI 02909. “We are excited to work with Prov.net PVD2 to […]
The importance of being prepared for a crisis! By Amanda Brooks Last week on Monday, October 4, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down for six hours and three billion people were affected from all corners of the world. Facebook went down for a bit on Thursday, October 8 as well. “I don’t know If I’ve seen an outage like this before from a major internet firm,” said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at network […]
Mission Critical Magazine features our client Green Revolution Cooling (GRC) for a new immersion cooling solution product, the ICEraQ Series 10.” From the article: “The ICEraQ Series 10 delivers a PUE of less than 1.03 and reduces server power by up to 20% (by disabling or removing server fans). The modular design allows units to be positioned end-to-end, saving floor space. To further provide cooling peace-of-mind, the Series 10 control system monitors for leaks and provides real-time […]
This week, we released the September edition of the Milldam Monthly. As we head into fall, we wanted to highlight new clients, exciting in-person conferences, trends, and more. In case you missed it, check out a recent blog written by our summer interns Olivia DiFilippo and Amanda Brooks on their experience at Milldam. This month’s newsletter highlighted important client news like GRC’s first annual Data Center Liquid Immersion Cooling Awareness Month. GRC partnered with Dell, […]
What is a data fabric and why is it important? By Amanda Brooks Data needs to be cleaned, validated, and managed before it can be used in analytics and machine learning. It also needs to be accessible to users. Data fabric is designed as an end-to-end data integration and management solution that helps organizations manage their data. Omdia analyst Bradley Shimmin describes data fabric as an API layer or a data-as-a-service layer. According to TIBCO, […]
Mission Critical features an article that explains the advantages of liquid cooling. Today, with decades of air cooling behind us, data centers are returning to liquid cooling, using a new generation of systems. It also highlights our client GRC’s first annual Liquid Immersion Cooling Awareness Month. The initiative will increase awareness in the data center community of immersion cooling technology. Please visit Mission Critical Magazine to read more.
