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Power and Cooling Requirements for Storage Servers

We’re all swimming in data these days, with the explosion of structured and unstructured data driven by the increased adoption of AI, IOT, and Big Data applications among others. There has been an equal explosion in underlying storage technologies, with flash, persistent memory, SSDs and the like driving incredible storage capacity and flexibility. A single […]

It’s Getting Hot In Here: Rack Density is Rising – Are Datacenters Ready?

Leading IT services and data center research and advisory firm, 451 Research, recently published a report titled “It’s Getting Hot In Here: Rack Density is Rising – Are Datacenters Ready?” The report discusses the growing deployments of HPC and AI applications, the rapidly-rising power and cooling densities per server cabinet required by this infrastructure, and […]

Colovore Adds 50 kW Cabinets and Liquid-to-the-System Cooling Capabilities

Colovore continues to specialize in supporting the deployments of dense HPC, AI, Big Data, and GPU/dual-CPU server infrastructure. The power and cooling requirements for these systems are immense, and we are proud to lead the way in Silicon Valley colocation by providing industry-leading power and cooling densities per rack—now up to 50 kW—as well as […]

Customer Story: Data Center For Big Data Infrastructure

Background The customer interviewed for this story is Don Jackson, Principal Software Engineer at DriveScale. Based in Silicon Valley, DriveScale’s offering allows data center managers to deploy flexible, scale-out computing infrastructure using standard servers and commodity storage. Why Choose Colocation? Since we are involved in developing scale-out infrastructure for Hadoop environments, we needed a data center. […]