A Look Back at the Hottest Data Center Topics of 2017
Incredibly, it is once again December, a time of year when all good bloggers stop to take stock of the year gone by. Judging by number of views of data center-related blog posts published this year, following are the topics that most resonated with readers – all with good reason. Resiliency at the Edge Edge data centers were once again front-and-center in 2017 as companies employed them both as aggregation points for Internet of Things networks as well as to support any premises-based applications that have not moved to the cloud. But whereas in 2016 the focus was on the proliferation of edge data centers, in 2017 the discussion shifted more to reliability. That makes sense, because applications that remain on-premises are generally there for one (or more) of a number of reasons: the company needs a greater level of control over them; to meet regulatory requirements; a need for fast connectivity and low latency. With those kinds of requirements to meet, edge data centers must f...
