Aug 14, 2019 | Trends, Industry
Are you using best practices in your facility? Energy usage is a hefty budget item for large and small data centers. A major trend in data management is moving to the cloud. Small and large businesses that had in-house infrastructure and only used the cloud for back...
Jul 24, 2019 | Trends, Technology
Building Automation Infrastructure Modern building automation systems (BAS) can control basically everything that is electrical in the building, and will reduce building energy and maintenance costs. Even on a smaller scale, BAS is very complicated. The building...
Jul 2, 2019 | Trends, Technology, Industry
In the data center industry, we are seeing a widening range of data centers. Cloud and Colocation facilities are larger and higher density capacity with electrical demand in the tens and hundreds of megawatts. There is edge computing where small data centers are...
Jun 6, 2019 | Trends, Technology
The MSI is fast becoming a building owner’s key strategic partner. Building systems are becoming so complicated that it would take a super hero to manage them. There is a new super hero emerging in the building services market and it is the Master Systems Integrator...
May 22, 2019 | Trends, Sustainability
Energy management is more important than ever as businesses look to control costs, control energy and attract younger customers conscious about corporate social responsibility. Unfortunately, many commercial facilities and businesses do not have their own energy...
May 22, 2019 | Trends, Technology, Industry
Data makes the world go ’round Data center. Does that term evoke an image in your mind? Maybe it conjures racks of whispering matte-black servers stacked in a spotless isolated room at the end of a long sterile hallway, the machines quietly whirring away doing...