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

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 Economizer technologies,
•Operational benefits for the short-and-long terms,
•And more.

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 specific and tailored answers for operational efficiency and success. Smart Cooling Solutions for the IT Edge are just what the doctor ordered for these lingering questions.

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 ever-increasing continual digitization of our society driving more hardware to be cooled than ever before. Enter Precision Cooling.

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 moving pieces of HVAC systems and the strategies to keep them in working order. 

DVL Group's CEO, Gary Hill, has been with the company for more than 25 years, and in that time, he has battled a challenge or two. He's worked with customers to find answers for some of the data center industry's biggest challenges. In addition, as the world became (and continues to become even more) digitized, Gary engineered cooling solutions through the heat of the dot-com era, Y2K, into the cloud, and beyond the product.

Keeping temps inside your Data Center at an acceptable level is Priority #1.   But as technology (and our understanding of global environmental impacts) evolves, we’re able to achieve primary objectives like this one; along with reducing annual spend, being more efficient with resources, and extending lifespans across infrastructure.  

But how?

Join us in this webcast as we discuss the BIG impacts being made by small adjustments to your modus operandi for facility cooling.  Much of this comes from underutilized functions in existing infrastructure or cost-efficient modifications to existing infrastructure.   We’ll be discussing these strategies, along with: 
•            The science behind IT cooling
•            Constant vs. Variable Fan Speeds
•            NextGen HVAC Controls
•            And more

IT Closets are finicky pieces of IT.  These spaces are usually smaller, deployed quickly, and create a lot of heat compared to the spaces they’ve been built into.  No wonder these critical pieces of our infrastructure require a little TLC to ensure confidence in your Operations. 

In this Power Hour we’ll be delving into the daily challenges behind IT Cooling, and how to manage these variables for a healthy IT Closet.  Learn more about: 
•The Science of IT Cooling
•Challenges to healthy IT closets
•Cooling Strategies
•Environmental Challenges 
•Solution Options

The digital transformation is experiencing an exponential increase of more daily RPMs. This means the data center community is at a crossroad of having business strategies impacted by carbon footprint and climate change, while also resulting business operations must have positive impacts on these same environmental variables. These increased demands will require more value from all aspects of the data center's infrastructure, including facility-wide cooling.