Those lazy, hazy days of summer are upon us again and while I have written about this before, many small and midsize firms will still see their data center’s cooling systems pushed to their limits, and even far beyond.

One thing you can count on when you are in charge of data center management: the demand for data will keep growing. Thanks to cloud computing and mobile applications, data centers expanded substantially in recent years.

Not too long ago, an article on BitDefender caught my eye. Titled “California’s ban on weak default passwords isn’t going to fix IoT security,” it explained how default passwords are a problem with the Internet of Things (IoT), but they’re not the problem.

It seems just like yesterday when Steve Carlini of Schneider Electric was telling me about the company’s products for edge data centers, a term I hadn’t heard of until then.

Clients are typically, and understandably, focused upon price when evaluating proposals for the purchase of electric power from a supplier other than the local electric utility. However, price is only one of several considerations that an edge data center (EDC) purchaser should consider.

In my last column, “Market Insanity,” I wrote about some of the challenges the industry is undergoing in the hyperscale space. Challenges include shortage of resources in both design/construction as well as in the operations sector.

Over the last few months, I have heard various experienced and knowledgeable experts state (emphatically no less) totally contradictory opinions regarding quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC), and commissioning.