I knew I forgot something.  Back in June, Rosendin delivered a presentation at the 7×24 Exchange National meeting in Orlando, Florida.  The purpose of this presentation is to speak to modular and containerized data center solutions, as compated to traditionally built mission critical environments.  Exclusive to this presentation is the cost, schedule and form factors [Read more]

Rosendin Electric receives two significant construction technology award for 2011. For our integrated BIM and Estimating systems, we made the Information Week Top 500 Innovators for 2011: http://www.informationweek.com/iw500/2011 For our Vela productivity tracking system, we were honored by ConstrucTech with a Gold Vision award in 2011 for our productivity and QA/QC tracking systems: Well done [Read more]

On Friday, July 7th, Anton Troianovski wrote an article critical of the growth of the wholesale data center market in the US. Search the Wall Street Journal on line, July 7th, and look for the article: Storage Wars – Web Sparks Data-Center Boom And Anton, only civilians hyphenate data center. While not one to sharply [Read more]

Thank you Scott Adams for making my day!

I received an interesting article from our CEO last month. It dealt with a successful lawsuit against the design professionals on a design-bid-build project. The design team, as part of their contracted services, produced a virtual building model indicating the location of a majority, if not all MEP building systems. The crux of the complaint [Read more]

Since I have been asked to present on the metrics for container and modular data center deployments at the 2011 7×24 Exchange Spring Conference (www.7x24exchange.org/spring11/brochure), one of the main issues I have with non-stick built deployments is the metric used to measure success. Here are a few nuggets for thought: How much are you willing [Read more]

It’s been over a week since Facebook published all of their server, power supply and data center design. They can be found on the Open Compute Project at http://www.opencompute.com/. I’ve been involved with Facebook since before the patent application, and now for those who follow my blog, you can see where we have been going [Read more]

I got several comments on my predictions for 2011, specifically on containers and innovations. Addressing manufacturer innovation, I believe what really started the trend was a drive to differentiate. The Eaton 9395 UPS power module drive many to multi-mode operation with their introduction of their Economy mode. That, and Eaton FINALLY produces a 750+ kVA [Read more]

I was reading the Data Center Dynamics Focus Dec 2010/Jan 2011 edition, and they had several touts speak to what the biggest developments in 2010 and what they feel is in store for 2011. Here’s my two cents on that one:   Cloud Computing With the rise on location independent content, specifically in the social [Read more]

In a parallel blog, we’ve been discussing the death of the modern data center. It’s not as dire or alarmist as it sounds – merely the realization that data centers are evolving as both real estate-based solutions outside the enterprise and the use of cloud computing for social media, entertainment and now more traditional corporate [Read more]