Vendor lock-in is regularly levied as a criticism of cloud services.…

As the data center sector increases its focus on becoming more environmentally sustainable, regulators still have a part to play — the question is to what extent?

Many analysts have forecast an explosion in demand for edge data centers. After a long, slow start, demand is beginning to build, with small, prefabricated and mostly remotely operated data centers ready to be deployed to support a varying array of applications.

The bigger the outage, the greater the need for explanations and, most importantly, for taking steps to avoid a repeat.