DVL Power Hour Podcast
DVL's Power Hour Podcasts cover various topics including Power, Thermal Management, Power Distribution, Monitoring, and more, to help you better plan your critical infrastructure. Episodes are previously recorded webinars that have been reformatted into podcasts for your convenience. For more information or to watch original webinars, please visit DVLnet.com/Resources/Webinars.
Episodes
44 episodes
Preparing Your Data Center for HPC Operations with Bill Kleyman
Join us, to hear Bill Kleyman, one of the industry’s most trusted leaders, discuss this critical ecosystem and how to implement it in today’s data centers. With more than two decades of experience, Bill has done it all, including managing netwo...
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55:49
Demystifying Complexities for Industrial Power Distribution
In today's world of industrial and manufacturing settings, many environments have hurdles that inhibit flexibility of power management, while also decreasing the potential for growth. Overcoming these challenges and distributing power throughou...
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52:16
Highlights from Vertiv’s Artificial Intelligence Solutions Roadshow
This episode of the DVL Power Hour podcast is made up of select audio clips from an in-person event that took place in Denver, CO, on June 11, 2024, as part of Vertiv’s AI Solutions Innovative Roadshow. The speakers you’ll hear showcased are al...
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A Macro-View on Microgrids
As power grids around the country continue to be stressed, it’s time for infrastructure teams to consider new methodologies to confidently energize their facilities. Picture a future where electricity isn't just distributed from centralized gri...
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54:52
The Dynamics of Designing a Data Center
If you’re designing a data center, this means you’re going to have more than your fair share of variables and challenges to juggle. For starters, an increasing need to accommodate Artificial Intelligence (and other High Performance Compute appl...
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47:51
The 2024 State of Liquid Cooling
Today, data center operators are preparing for heat densities that demand 20x the capacity of what they were just a few years ago. With this type of massive increase becoming the norm, you’d be remiss if you didn’t question what technology will...
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54:49
Top 10 Data Center Contract Issues for 2024
As digital demands continue to rise, so does the growth of data centers worldwide. With new construction, expansion of facilities, and companies and applications migrating to the cloud, the need for more data center space has never been greater...
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56:28
Data Center Excellence: Operations & Safety
Ensuring your data center operates without any issues takes a team of vastly experienced leaders who know to prioritize efficiency and safety. In this webinar, we’ll be joined by EdgeCore Data Centers’ team of operations leaders, led by Therese...
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52:13
Sustainability: Going from Action Items to Taking Action
In this DVL Power Hour, we sit down with Jack Pouchet of Natron Energy to discuss best practices for defining efficiency and sustainability goals, aligning the organization for success, implementing short-and-long term action plans, and measuri...
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47:41
The Power and Benefit of Employee Ownership
Ever since 2006, DVL Group has been an employee owned company, and since then, our status as an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) has been a large part of our identity. With October being National Employee Ownership Month, the DVL Power Hour...
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36:15
The Future of Energy Storage: Clean, Resilient, and Cost Effective
From natural disasters to your "run-of-the-mill" power outages, commercial and industrial facilities face challenges of many types that threaten the stability of their operations. Luckily, technology continues to evolve providing answers ...
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49:24
Uninterruptible Power: A Story of Evolution
From its original inception as an “Apparatus for Maintaining An Unfailing and Uninterrupted Supply of Electrical Energy”, as the actual 1934 patent refers to it, the evolution of what is now the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), continues to ...
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51:48
Managing 1K+ Telco Closets Without Losing It
Managing IT Networks is filled with challenges. From the core to the edge, operational demands require your infrastructure to continually support “more”. More compute power, more kVA, more heat density… and more efficiently. While the foo...
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46:36
Data Center Catalysts and Their Impacts on Operational Change
Terms that have been limited to "ideological" status in the data center landscape for the past 10+ years are finally becoming a part of operational reality. Increasing rack density. High density computing. Liquid cooling. Recent catalysts for t...
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52:22
Behind the Scenes of Data Center Operations
Join us as we sit down with Benjamin Mitten (VP of Operations, TierPoint) to discuss:• The nitty gritty details of building and fortifying data centers in 2023• Customer concerns, challenges, and objectives for data cent...
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43:04
Insider Insights on Managing Data Center Environments in 2023
Data Centers, large and small, are finicky facilities that require quality power, cool temperatures, and clean physical environments. In this webinar, we'll be focusing on the latter, and discussing how contamination control can impact uptime a...
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52:37
Data Center Landscapes: From Greener Data to the Infrastructure of People
Melissa Reali-Elliott's, whose perspectives have enlightened critical infrastructure leaders around the globe, will join us for this webinar. She is a contributing author to "Greener Data", a book which asks how we can work together to get our ...
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42:01
Navigating Tumultuous Times in the Data Center Seas
Data Centers have cemented themselves as foundational components in business operations, becoming a focal point for revenue, service, and most every aspect of the operations driving companies forward. But, as business demands increase, so do th...
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37:29
The Edge of Sustainability in a Data Center(ed) World
Data Centers have become vital pieces to virtually everything we do from home-to-office, and yet, they continue to evolve in ways that leave us amazed. As the world clamors for an even deeper digitization, these demands will only be met if we'r...
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41:44
A 7x24 Conversation
In this episode of the DVL Power Hour, we'll be joined by Joe Parrino, President of the Rocky Mountains Chapter of 7x24. Joe's seen almost everything since he began working in data centers well over 20 years ago. In this conversation we'll be d...
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34:15
How to Choose the Right Cooling System
Chiller selection for Industrial HVAC Systems can be an extremely complex endeavor. If not strategic in identifying (and solving) the important variables, this aspect of your critical infrastructure will be an excessive burden on your budget.&n...
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42:57
Dichotomies of HVAC Efficiency – Rising Temps Equate to Rising Savings
In this podcast, we'll be discussing one of the most critical aspects to driving efficiencies in your HVAC facilities: The Economizer. Join us to learn about: •Economizer Basics: History and evolution, •Variances in Econom...
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41:38
Edgier Sides of Data Center Cooling
The Edge is growing. In volume, and type, and layers of technology powered. The locations in which Edge environments are housed, are becoming more unique. These unique settings bring with them environmental challenges that require...
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53:48
Comfort vs. Precision Cooling
Cooling IT environments has been a challenge since the advent of the computer. While the machines processing the data may have gotten smaller, the challenges to keep them cool haven't. There's Heat Load Densities, Sensible Heat Ratios, and an e...
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46:22
Common Cooling Challenges: Mechanical to Electrical to Everything in Between
Mechanical challenges in HVAC systems come from a multitude of angles, but it’s how you prepare and manage for those challenges that dictate your project’s overall success. In this episode of the DVL Power Hour, we’ll be covering the movi...
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