Latest edge publications

Edge Centers, the Australia-based provider of modular, sustainable edge data centres, is expanding its footprint in the U.S. The company announced on its LinkedIn page that construction has begun on EC101, a data centre located at the AON Centre in Los Angeles, California.

Experts from across the data centre spectrum review a year unlike any other – and preview what they think lies ahead in 2021.d

UK edge colocation provider Proximity Data Centres has made three more facilities available on its regional edge network.

The new sites in Chester, Liverpool and Coventry join existing sites in Wakefield, Nottingham and Bridgend and add a further 8 MW of IT capacity and 80,000 square feet of technical space.

The past year has shown the value of Edge Cloud and adaptive networks, driven by the need to support unexpected traffic demands. By Jürgen Hatheier, CTO at Ciena.

Microsoft has introduced a transportable modular data centre to bring Azure access to hard to reach locations in need of cloud computing and storage.

The tech giant said the ruggedised data centre, which comes in a radio frequency shielded unit, enables cloud access even in areas where there is unreliable network availability, or where temperature, humidity, and surface levels usually pose a deployment challenge.