You may have heard myself or any of the other members within The Green Grid talk about the "Open Standard for Data Center Availability" (OSDA) tool at various conferences over the past year. We have been busy developing a tool to help designers & owner/operators evaluate alternate energy sources. For this first release of the OSDA tool we have focused on the power distribution, we will continue to develop the cooling and include the network systems in future releases. The OS

One of the new terms in the data center industry is Edge Data Centers. What is the Edge? Where is the Edge? Before we begin to understand what an Edge Data Center is, it might be helpful to first understand what it is not. An Edge Data Center is not simply a: small data center, data center located in a smaller city, or smaller data center managed by a large business or organization. It is also important to understand the major services that deliver Edge data center services