Join us when we welcome Anthony Menicucci, PhD, Consulting Engineer at Sandia National Labs, to discuss "FLOPS" Total Usage Effectiveness, also known as "FTUE". Dr. Menicucci is one of the creators of this new energy usage metric, which is a basis to assess computing energy usage efficiency relative to cooling power usage - specific to data centers using high-performance computing.

We'll discuss:

• The gaps in current efficiency measurements,
• Variables within the calculations of FTUE,
• Results of measuring FTUE within HPC environments, 
• And much more.

As electric vehicle adoption accelerates, the demand for reliable high-performance charging solutions is greater than ever. Businesses, commercial properties, and fleet operators need solutions that can handle high-traffic, multi-vehicle fast charging without compromising efficiency or reliability.

Join us as we unveil the DVL end-to-end Commercial EV Charging solution, integrating the equipment you’ll need, including switchgear, power distribution, energy storage, and, most importantly, the commercial-grade EV chargers from Generac Industrial Energy. Tim Pulliam, Senior Engineer at Generac, will be our guest as we discuss:

• How our EVSE solution provides a complete and seamless answer for your charging projects.
• How the reliability and future-proof design of our chargers ensures long-term value.
• The business case for commercial EV charging – including potential new revenue streams.
• Smart features for efficiency – remote management, reduced noise, and seamless operation.
• Real-world applications for retail, commercial, and fleet charging needs.

With rising power demands and increasing strain on the US power grid, commercial and industrial facilities face unprecedented energy challenges to their operations. Microgrids offer a smarter, more resilient solution, providing energy independence, cost savings, and enhanced reliability.

Join us as we sit down with Mike Murray, Director of Microgrid Solutions at Generac Industrial Energy. We’ll be breaking down the fundamentals of microgrids and exploring how businesses can leverage them for greater control and long-term energy resilience. Tune in to understand: 

• Why Microgrids Matter – Addressing the challenges of grid instability and rising energy costs
• Managing Operating Expenses – Reducing energy spend through strategic power management
• The Building Blocks of a Microgrid – How generators, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), photovoltaic (solar), wind, and other Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) work together
• Business Impacts – Stopping utility-imposed demand charges and starting to implement demand response programs
• The Microgrid Controller – The intelligent core that enables seamless energy optimization and confident management

While much is being said about liquid cooling’s rise in popularity thanks to AI’s unprecedented rack densities, power management is an equally important part of the equation. As we welcome to the Power Hour Webinar, Jim Greene, Director of AC Power Technical Sales at Vertiv, we’ll examine the impacts AI has on power across your critical infrastructure, including why mechanical loads now require the benefits (and peace of mind) behind UPSs and conditioned power.

Other essential points of discussion will include:

•   Changes that must occur to the entire powertrain, grid to chip,
•   Bring Your Own Power (BYOP) strategies and how they can positively enhance a data center’s overall efficiency and sustainability,
•   Microgrids and their overall impact at the facility level, and
•   More!

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 networks, running data centers, leading strategy and innovation; to currently being the voice for AFCOM and Data Center World, along with starting his own AI company, focused on the data center industry. He is quite uniquely positioned to understand the changes we’ve witnessed in recent years, and what they mean for where we’re headed.

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 throughout your facility maximizes operations by allowing you to reconfigure equipment and workflows. To do this, you need a flexible power distribution system like Starline’s Busway. To best implement it, it’s important to understand its capabilities.

In this episode of the DVL Power Hour, we welcome Adrian Sanchez, Starline Sales Director. We’ll discuss today's world of industrial power management and distribution. We'll cover current challenges of manufacturing and industrial applications, and new solutions from Starline that offer increases in performance, functionality, and flexibility; including, when IP54 or NEMA 3R ratings are required, the ability to install around elements that previously needed to be avoided, like water, dust, and other contaminants.

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 all data center professionals who work for Vertiv, each with more than two decades of experience dealing with the complex challenges of this landscape. 

You’ll be hearing from Matt Zieg, Vice President of Global Strategic Accounts, David Toralez, Technical Sales Manager, and Jim Greene, Director of AC Power Technical Sales.

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 grids but generated and managed locally. Welcome to the world of microgrids, battery energy storage systems, and electronic isolation and controls. We'll be joined by our own  Alexander D'Angelo, Power Systems Sales Engineers out of our Salt Lake City office. 

Join us, as we dive into, not just the growing demand of alternative energy strategies, but details of: 

• The evolution of microgrids and how we’ve arrived at this current state,
• The impacts microgrids have on power distribution and consumption,
• The basics of engineering microgrids, 
• Tangible benefits for facilities and their operations, and
• How microgrids WILL help the national energy issue by providing sustainable successes.

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 applications) while also meeting efficiency goals, as well as a host of new challenges that come from construction advancing into urban spaces. No one understands these challenges more than a professional who designs data centers every day. 

Join us, as we sit down with Joy Hughes, Design Manager at Gensler. Hughes, who has more than 23 years of experience and serves as the Executive Director of 7x24's Rocky Mountain Chapter, is her firm’s Critical Facilities Leader.

We’ll be discussing: 

•How the world of data center design has changed in the last two decades
•Whether or not communities benefit from mixed-use data centers
•The impacts of AI on the foundation of data center design
•What utilizing waste heat from data centers looks like
•What decisions really impact and reduce carbon costs

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 effectively and efficiently cool your critical operations in the near future.

In this DVL Power Hour webinar, we’ll be joined by Dr. Richard Bonner of Accelsius, as he helps us explore the world of thermal cooling. Bonner has a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a background in Research and Development, and we’ll tap into his rich experiences of solving complex thermal cooling problems in real-world applications. This is a must-watch webinar if you’re looking to enable higher compute densities, save on operational expenses, and responsibly manage the impacts of these technologies on the environment.  

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. But, as anyone familiar with logistics and facilities knows, before you can even pick up a shovel, there’s a mountain of legal paperwork to overcome. In this webinar, Jeffrey A. Moerdler, of the Mintz Law Firm in New York City, will join us to discuss the 10 most prevalent contract issues he’s recently seen for data centers, that will continue to be top issues in 2024. We'll cover:

•Data Security and Privacy
•Impacts of New Technologies
•Environmental, Social, and Governance
•Lease Ownership
•And more.

Moerdler is the head of the Real Estate and Communications practices in New York. During the past 30+ years, he has developed a unique specialty practice with the comingling of real estate, technology, communications, and energy issues. He has widespread experience representing landlords, tenants, and communications service providers in the leasing, purchase, sale, and financing of data centers and switch facilities, colocation facilities, and fiber-optic transactions, as well as the wiring of buildings for broadband communications access.

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 Kerfoot, SVP Operations, as they discuss experiences from Silicon Valley to Ashburn, Virginia. Also on the agenda are their commitments to safety, sustainability, community, compliance, and governance.   

This EdgeCore panel will include: 

•Therese Kerfoot, SVP Operations
•Harrison Stoll, VP Operations
•Matt Silvers, VP Operations Programs
•Sarah Kasper, Sr. Director, Environmental Health & Safety

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 measuring across initiatives to understand the successes, learning opportunities, and overall impacts of your sustainability initiatives.

“Efficiency” and “sustainability” are only growing more relevant, (if that is even possible). The terms will have a huge long-term impact on the world for many years to come, even beyond the landscape of critical infrastructure. 

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 is thrilled to celebrate by hosting our first webinar dedicated to employee ownership.

We’re excited to welcome Dani Green and Kate Johnson, two employee owners from another ESOP company called ProAct. They'll discuss both the tangible and intangible benefits of being an employee owned company, but also the power it gives its owners to better serve their customers, their community, and each other.

ProAct, which is a fully integrated pharmacy benefits management company, was recently named the 2023 Company of the Year by the NY/NJ Chapter of the ESOP Association. In addition, Green was awarded the honor of 2023 Employee Owner of the Year, due to the large part she plays in hosting their vlog, “Sweet + Salty”, Green hits the road with different guests to visit other employee owned companies in the northeast section of the United States. And it is through this video blog that they have been successful in profiling not only their own company’s amazing journeys and stories, but those of others in the employee owned community.

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 to the big question of "how can I keep my power on in these trying times?"  Including the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) from Generac Industrial Power.  

Join us for this webinar as we cover the ways in which the BESS is able to provide savings in Costs and Energy, added resilience to your critical infrastructure, and enable operational strategies that include carbon reductions. 

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 this day. This equipment is more than just back-up power and surge protection. It has become an important variable in the critical infrastructure equation that provides business continuity and operational efficiencies. 

Join us for this webinar as we sit down with the Vertiv UPS Product Team. We’ll learn all about how to best implement this equipment in your facility, as we cover: 

•   Customer challenges driving UPS product development 
•  Product Categories: Online Double Conversion, Line-Interactive, and Standby
•  Battery Options: VRLA vs. Lithium-Ion
•  UPS Applications and the best fit
•  A Review of the full line of Vertiv UPS Portfolio

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 footprints of IT closets are getting smaller, challenges in these spaces continue to get bigger.  

Join us for a conversation with Ryan Gruver, IT Director with Banner Health. He’s been building and maintaining IT networks at the edge for more than a decade, while accruing 1000+ IDFs, and a “petabyte” of experience in the process. We’ll be discussing: 

•     Where efficiencies can really be found, in both dollars and time
•     What goes into converting non-IT rooms into secure IDFs 
•     Managing and incorporating newly acquired businesses and their IT networks
•     Creating network standards in disparate locations 
•     Where to be flexible in network management and where to hold your ground

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 this change include the pandemic (with a shift to more at-home networking requirements), IoT, cryptocurrency, and lest we forget: Artificial Intelligence. 

The demands on data center infrastructure are intensifying, from hyperscalers all the way to the edge.  And no one understands this more than Greg Stover, Global Director of Hi-Tech Development with Vertiv. The only thing he does more than travel from city-to-city, is absorb information on each market's data center "State of the Union".

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 center providers
•  Sustainability  (and what this means today, tomorrow, and years down the road)
•  Building technical teams when candidate pools are more shallow than ever
•  And more

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 and reliability. These demands become even more challenging as your data center evolves into a larger or more unique space with even more variables and unknowns.  

We'll be joined by Jon deRidder, CEO of DP Guardian, to discuss: 

•The biggest environmental challenges for data centers in 2023,
•The 5 zones key to ensuring data center network availability,
•The evolution of services in the data center landscape,
•How labor challenges are impacting not just supply-chains, but the day-to-day workforce,
•And MORE.

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 data greener. The Data Center landscape is an increasingly vital part of societal infrastructure, and we'll be covering the topics that data center professionals like you care about. 

Data center operators require a diverse approach to meet business goals, and we'll be covering a myriad of topics that touch on operational efficiency. Join us for this webinar as we discuss reduction in carbon footprints, biodiversity, hardware/software innovation, and what sustainable projects look like.  Additionally, we'll be talking about how you can harness the power of people and resource management.

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 the complexities for data center operators and customers alike.   

H5 Data Centers provides millions of square feet of data center space across the country. Rabin Mahanty (H5, Vice President), has been helping customers understand the planning challenges of data management strategy for more than seven years.

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're able to create more capacity for all the data to be managed and functionalized. With the efficiency and effectiveness of these utility-like facilities being tested with each new build and repurposed location, how productive will your organization continue to be? 

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 discussing: 

•What's changed and what's stayed the same
•Talent scarcity for tomorrow's data centers
•Energy reduction and environmental sustainability
•And MORE!

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.  But it doesn’t have to be.  

In this webinar, we’ll be discussing key factors in choosing the “right” chiller and avoiding unnecessary costs for your facility: 

• How Chiller Ratings, Setpoints, and Condenser Temps effect Capacity Ratings
• The BEST method for capacity control
• Problems from Under-&-Over sized chillers 
• Options for Chiller Condensers and Compressors AND what they mean to you