Liquid cooling technology is quickly growing in demand thanks to its ability to support a variety of cutting edge, compute-intensive workloads. In fact, more than a third of enterprise data centers are expected to employ some form of liquid cooling by 2026, according to a recent survey of IT professionals. That’s nearly double the number who reported using it in early 2024. With the rise of high-performance computing (HPC) and AI, the industry is seeing increased demand for compute power as well as denser data center deployments that use more power and emit more heat. Traditional air-cooling m ..read more

Sustainability is becoming a bigger driver of IT buying decisions, thanks to increasing regulation on climate reporting as well as growing consumer and investor demands. Environmental responsibility is an imperative for businesses now, and IT operations can be a big contributor to a company’s environmental impact—sometimes the biggest contributor. According to a report from S&P Global Market Intelligence, the number of organizations that have implemented or are developing formal targets for reducing environmental impact is on the rise. Some already have target dates for reaching net-zero c ..read more

The Olympic Games are a celebration of greatness in sports. Athletes participating in this year’s Games have worked for years to fine-tune their abilities, and now it all comes down to performing at their best over the next several weeks. Outside the Games themselves, there’s a similar story happening with broadcasters entrusted to deliver the action to millions of fans around the world. As a streaming event, the Olympics Games are unique. Everything about them is big, from the amount of content to the size of the global audience: The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will feature 329 medal events ..read more

When businesses develop cloud applications, they typically start with one cloud for simplicity’s sake. However, almost all of them will end up doing some form of multicloud, for different reasons: They may want to ensure they’re getting the right mix of cloud services from different providers. They may want to take advantage of the experience their developers have with a particular cloud. They may even end up doing multicloud unintentionally by connecting with SaaS providers that are multicloud themselves. Regardless of why a business adopts multicloud, the question then becomes how to do it b ..read more

Everything you do on the internet depends on servers running in interconnected data centers, and those servers inevitably create heat. Equinix is working to turn that heat into a valuable resource by exporting it to homes and businesses in our communities. We invited The B1M, the world’s largest video channel for construction, to take a closer look at data center heat export in action. The following video will take you inside Equinix PA10, our innovative data center in Paris. You’ll see how we’re using heat export to help with everything from growing strawberries in a rooftop greenhouse to hea ..read more

In an Equinix blog from 2021, we reviewed the factors affecting demand and consumption of internet content in the Middle East and their role in growing the region’s digital economies. We also highlighted the importance of the region as the primary corridor for intercontinental connectivity between Asia-Pacific, East Africa and Europe—albeit narrowly concentrated through the Red Sea and Egypt. Recent attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and the resulting subsea cable breaks have prompted renewed focus on building terrestrial and hybrid cable systems to enable a greater diversity of pathways for t ..read more

Ninety-four percent of organizations are now using multiple public clouds, according to a recent survey by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group. While many companies started out years ago using a single cloud provider, over time they added more clouds to take advantage of the strengths of each cloud and the best solutions for their business needs. Thus, many organizations, without intending to, have found themselves in a multicloud environment. Integrating cloud solutions that were introduced ad hoc can be quite a challenge. Multicloud networking—that is, networking between different cloud e ..read more

The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing digital transformation at an extraordinary scale, with data centers as the backbone of this rapid digital growth. As the reliance on interconnected ecosystems and data-centric technologies becomes integral to everyday business and personal activities, the imperative for seamless and environmentally responsible digital infrastructure has intensified. In an era where the digital economy’s energy demands are surging, the adoption of efficient and sustainable solutions has transitioned from a mere option to an absolute necessity.  At Equinix, we are acute ..read more

Data management is one of the most important aspects of designing an end-to-end AI solution, in addition to factors like your AI infrastructure stack and AI algorithms. Data for AI can be multimodal, varying from small files like documents to very large objects like videos—and storage systems need to be able to handle it all. In an AI pipeline, multiple types of storage workloads exist with different capacity as well as different latency and throughput requirements, depending on the AI phase in the pipeline. In this first part of our guide to storage for AI, we’ll dive into the storage… The po ..read more

The value of business data is undeniable: Effectively using their data can help organizations deliver a better customer experience, understand market signals, design innovative products and services, and more. For these reasons, businesses that optimize their data architectures will realize competitive advantage. As data volumes are only expected to continue growing, the importance of that optimization will also increase. Public cloud infrastructure can provide the scalable capacity needed to keep up with massive data growth. However, public cloud services aren’t right for every workload. Many ..read more