Stephen C. Madaffari is a principal with Data Centers Delivered where he educates the data center industry on how to build custom, manufactured, modular data centers. He concurrently serves as a principal for HTS New York, a leading HVAC manufacturer’s representative firm that partners with parent company, Epsilon Industries. He began his career as a sales engineer with Trane, where he helped develop and build a successful sales and turnkey construction business. Stephen also was a partner in a real estate development company that sourced, procured and sold development packages to major construction development companies. One of his key milestones was arranging private equity and acquiring financing for and assisting in the sales of about $25 million in private housing. Stephen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University.
The data boom is here … to stay. Internet traffic continues to explode with more data-rich content, and according to a 2012 report by Cisco, mobile data usage is expected to increase 13-fold between 2012 and 2017.