John Collins is Eaton’s segment director for data centers and is based in Raleigh, NC. He is responsible for analyzing technology and business trends and ensuring Eaton's data center products and solution offerings evolve with the data center market. He has 20 years of experience in the data center industry and prior to Eaton has worked at APC and Schneider Electric. He is involved in many industry groups including The Green Grid, 7x24 Exchange, and AFCOM.
Virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and converged infrastructures are rapidly transforming corporate information technology (IT). Unfortunately, the data centers many businesses rely on at present lack the power and cooling capacity to handle those technologies.