It’s a Mission Critical tradition to host this roundtable discussion every summer, so we reached out to Ahmed Gokturk, senior vice president of the Critical Infrastructure Solutions division at M.C. Dean; Chris McLean, director of mission critical solutions, M.C. Dean; Kevin Groom, vice president of sales and marketing at IMS Engineered Products; Herb Villa, senior systems consultant for data center solutions at Rittal North America LLC; and three representatives from the Uptime Institute — Andy Lawrence, executive director of research, Rhonda Ascierto, vice president of research, and Christopher Brown, chief technical officer. Hear what they have to say about COVID-19, the supply chain, edge computing, sustainability, and more.
Mission Critical: The mission critical industry was already experiencing change on multiple levels before COVID-19. Can you talk about, say, the top three trends that existed before the pandemic, how they’ve changed because of it, and where you see them headed in the future?