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27 September 2022
What’s Old Is Cool Again: Liquid Cooling Unlocks Data Center Sustainability
Like Kate Bush ran up those pop charts in the summer, a cooling technology invented decades ago is poised to make a comeback in the data center.
07 April 2022
More Data Center as a Service Options, Courtesy of Dell Technologies and Equinix
Battle-tested enterprise IT infrastructure solutions with all the benefits of the cloud.
01 April 2022
Introducing Diamond Myst 3000.XXXL: Flaunt Your Shimmer
Real digital trailblazers don’t settle for hardware that looks like everyone else’s.
24 March 2022
Hardware Innovators’ Hidden Role in the Explosion of the Internet
“There are thousands of people at large companies that are driving not only the design of the hardware, but the supply chains behind [it] as well. And if you just look at the financial reporting from these companies, they spend billions and billions of dollars on infrastructure.” — Amir Michael
23 March 2022
Crank It to the fMax
For those who value single-core performance over running many cores at once, there’s a trick to “turning it up to 11” and getting a lot more out of your hardware.
17 March 2022
What Is the Data Explosion Doing to the Planet?
“The internet is actually a big sustainability bargain.” — Jon Koomey
28 February 2022
The Buildings and the Wires: How the Internet’s Physical Foundation Came to Be
“A lot of people assume it’s just sort of magical, like it's air that we breathe, or electricity that just happens to be available to us. But in order for everything to continue to grow and reach its ultimate capability we need systems and technologies and businesses that allow that infrastructure to grow.” — Jay Adelson
12 February 2022
In the Data Center Business, Open Source Is More Relevant Than Ever
Businesses anchored in the physical, too, have a lot to gain from participating in community driven, collaborative engineering.
14 January 2022
Hello Ice Lake! Kicking off Equinix Metal’s Next Chapter With Intel
Our latest Intel servers boost performance for low-latency edge applications and heavy duty enterprise workloads.
13 January 2022
Why Cores Count! What’s Next for AMD EPYC on Equinix Metal
Why high processor core counts matter for enterprise workloads and our next step with AMD.
16 December 2021
Arm Wants to Go Mainstream in the Data Center. Is Cloud Native the Ticket?
Performance gains, momentum in software optimization, and high-core-count processors make Arm an increasingly appealing option for fast-scaling cloud users.
23 September 2021
Crypto Miners Push to Change the Blockchain Infrastructure Energy Use Narrative
The two events that gave the global crypto industry a proper jolt in May could have a silver lining for the players who want to solve the industry’s complicated energy issues.
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