Over the last two years, we have been inundated by requests from wholesale and colocation clients to help develop winning proposals supporting hyperscale tenants. While each proposal we develop is customized to the hyperscale tenant, there are similarities and differences among each request.

The next decade will continue to see growth in the number of IP-connected mobile and machine-to-machine devices, which will handle significant amounts of IP traffic. Tomorrow’s consumers will demand better online experiences and faster, smoother Wi-Fi service and application delivery from online providers.

The mission critical industry has been growing rapidly the last few years and is expected to continue strong for the foreseeable future. To what do you attribute that growth and how long might it continue?

The data center sector has changed dramatically over the last decade, with hyperscale and platform providers driving the most recent building boom.

One of the key objectives of hyperscale data centers is to reduce the cost per MW, as well as designing for reliability and sustainability.

Siemon has announced the launch of its end-to-end TERA Category 8.2 copper cabling system, delivering transmission performance up to 2 GHz to support emerging high-speed 25 and 40 Gigabit (25/40GBASE-T) applications in data center switch-to-server applications.

Doug Harding, manager, facility engineering for Digital Realty, was named first runner up in Mission Critical Magazine’s Facility Manager of the Year Award for 2018.

Frank Burchi, director of site operations, Aligned Energy, was named second runner up in the 2018 Mission Critical Magazine Facility Manager of the Year.