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Category: High Performance Computing
Challenges with cloud repatriation
The Hidden Costs of Leaving the Cloud
  • December 10, 2025
  • Cloud

Data egress fees, parallel infrastructure costs, and capacity planning challenges make cloud repatriation far more complex and expensive than most organizations anticipate when planning their exit strategy.

AI can deliver personalized experiences
HPC at the Edge: Practical AI Applications Transforming Industries
  • September 30, 2025
  • AI

The combination of High-Performance Computing at the edge with AI capabilities can deliver significant real-world benefits for companies in just about any industry.

Bare metal as a service
The Evolution of Bare Metal

Discover how bare metal as a service evolved to combine dedicated hardware performance with cloud convenience for AI, HPC, and hybrid architectures.

AI in higher education - featured
Collaborative Computing: How Colleges and Universities Drive AI in Higher Education

Discover how AI is reshaping higher education and why colocation providers offer a strategic advantage for today’s leading colleges and universities.

Office vacancies and data center growth
Could Commercial Real Estate Become the Next Opportunity for Data Centers?
  • November 18, 2024
  • AI

As demand for data storage continues to skyrocket, many vacant commercial properties are being considered for conversion into data centers. This growing trend offers a smart solution to underutilized office and retail spaces, transforming them into vital tech infrastructure.

University of Maryland Zaratan DataBank Deployment

The University of Maryland’s Zaratan HPC cluster, hosted at DataBank’s IAD2 data center, leverages advanced power redundancy and liquid cooling, enabling researchers to run high-density simulations 24/7 without interruptions—supporting breakthroughs across astronomy, biology, AI, and beyond.

Autonomous Vehicle
Autonomous Vehicle Adoption Hinges on Public Cloud Platforms
  • September 30, 2024
  • AI

For self-driving cars to thrive, autonomous vehicle cloud platforms must deliver speed, scalability, security, and resiliency for large data volumes.

Machine Learning
Why Machine Learning Models Demand High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • September 26, 2024
  • AI

Data centers supporting HPC and machine learning enable data models to generate insights that help enterprises run their operations more efficiently.

Network Observability
The Importance of Observability in AI-Driven Data Center Networks

As AI continues to play a role in enhancing AI-driven networks in the data centers, observability can help deliver a wide range of important benefits.

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