Articles by Todd Kiehn

As football season gets underway, I’m reminded of a popular saying among NFL coaches, scouts, and players that also applies to another multi-billion dollar industry: data centers.

Cinderella is no longer just a fairy tale about rags to riches, but has become a sustainability story too — as the clock nears midnight on carbon emissions around the globe.

Like many others in our industry, a handful of my colleagues recently attended DatacenterDynamics (DCD) Enterprise conference in New York City last month.

It’s no secret that hospitals and other health care facilities cannot afford to lose power, so keeping the lights on has long been regarded as more important than reducing the utility bill.

For manufacturing facilities, calculating profitability is a simple equation.

All operators of mission critical facilities want to be smart with their money, but with every vendor claiming their product is the best long-term investment, making the right purchasing decision can be tricky.

Efficiency and reliability are both critical to successfully operating a data center; however, only one of the two is currently used as a reportable metric.

In May, I had the privilege of representing Active Power on a data center efficiency panel sponsored by CleanTX, the cluster development organization for clean technology in central Texas.

While data centers for government agencies or financial institutions would certainly feel the effects of downtime due to an electrical interruption, hospitals have the most to lose

I’ve recently come across a wide array of market research on the IT and data center markets that I believe gives some fascinating insights into where the market might be headed.