Originally posted to Data Center Frontier by Voices of the Industry It’s been said that “sustainability is most often defined as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. It has three main pillars: economic, environmental, and social. Informally these three pillars are referred to as people, planet, and profits.” In the data center industry, leaders such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Equinix have all taken a…
By: Daniel Highet, Featured Contributor, Website Hosting Review Rick Kurtzbein at 451 Research® has written a comprehensive article assessing Infomart Data Centers’ expansion of its U.S. footprint since Fortune Data Centers and the Dallas Infomart combined assets under a single operating entity and rebranded less than two short years ago.…
In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Carsten Baumann, Director Strategic Initiative & Solution Architect at Schneider Electric explores how the need for sustainability has led to the emergence of a fourth pillar of data center management – environmental sustainability management (ESM). Carsten Baumann, Director of Strategic Initiatives and…