Compass Datacenters Demonstrates the Power of Integrated BMS and DCIM
We’ve witnessed a rapid rate of growth in the data center industry over the last 5 or 6 years, whether you measure by number and size of facilities, revenue or the number of providers. But this rapid...
View ArticleWhen You Think About Modular Prefabricated Data Centers, Think Beyond ISO...
We’ve been designing and selling modular data centers at Schneider Electric for years. But lately, when I talk to customers about modular data centers, too often they naturally migrate to just one...
View ArticleWhy Formula One Cars are like Internet Giant Data Centers
As the Sr. Vice President for Schneider Electric’s Data Center Solutions, part of my role is to deal with companies known as “Internet giants” – Amazon and Facebook, for example. We discuss and...
View ArticleColo Data Center Market Trends – Edge, Growth, and IoT Technology – from...
Spending time with customers at this month’s Schneider Electric Innovation Summit in Paris made three things clear: Edge data centers are a big priority for enterprise and colocation providers, the...
View ArticleThree Key Enablers of IOT and Edge Computing Resilience
More data was generated in 2017 alone than over the previous 5,000 years of human history combined. This explosion of data owes much to the Internet of Things (IoT) phenomenon and is forcing...
View ArticleWhy Brick-and-Mortar Retail is Quickly Establishing Leadership in Edge Computing
Few industries feel the disruption of new digitization-driven business models more than traditional brick-and-mortar retailers. Although 90 percent of worldwide retail sales still occur in physical...
View ArticleWhy Support for Edge Data Centers Will Need to be “Lights Out”
According to research firm MarketsandMarkets, from 2017 through to 2022, edge computing will experience a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 35.4% (from $1.47 Billion USD to $6.72 Billion)....
View ArticleWhy Data Center Management Responsibilities Must Include Edge Data Centers
Now that edge computing has emerged as a major trend, the question for enterprises becomes how to migrate the data center management expertise acquired over many years to these new, remote...
View ArticleEmpowering the Digital Transformation and Tackling the Challenges of the Edge
In my recent strategy talk at Schneider Electric’s Global Innovation Summit in Barcelona, I touched on how our increasingly digital world is driving the need for a massive transformation in how we...
View ArticleIs the Data Center Industry Ready to Respond to the Climate Change Emergency?
On November 5, I will join senior executive leaders from Uptime Institute, Microsoft, Lancaster University, and Green Peace for a Data Center Dynamics (DCD) London panel to discuss the data center...
View ArticleReflecting on my Career with Schneider Electric as I Begin a New Chapter
My journey with APC and Schneider Electric began three decades ago. I can still remember it clearly. I was working at GE and got a call from my college friend who said, “why don’t you come work at...
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