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Aligned’s Phill Lawson-Shanks and Mercy Manning Join REBA Advisory Board
Phill Lawson-Shanks, Aligned’s Chief Innovation Officer, and Mercy Manning, Vice President, Sales and Sustainability Strategy, have joined the Advisory Board of the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) - an alliance of large clean energy buyers, energy providers, service providers and NGO partners that are unlocking the energy marketplace to lead a rapid transition to a cleaner, prosperous, zero-carbon energy future.
Employee Spotlight – Travis Miller
When it comes to operational excellence, Aligned is committed to providing a professional, safe and highly secure operational environment that offers the highest levels of protection for corporate and client staff, assets and reputations. For this month’s Employee Spotlight, we spoke to Travis Miller, Critical Facilities Technician at our Salt Lake City data center, to discuss his experience on the front lines of Aligned’s data center operations and customer service.
Not Losing Sight of Sustainability
Even as most all of our daily activities have moved online and people en masse enter the digital space to work and learn from home — increasing IT loads at unprecedented levels that no one in our industry could have anticipated — now is not the time for data center providers and their customers to abandon their shared sustainability goals.
Employee Spotlight – Aimee Guerrero
As Aligned celebrated National Women in Construction Week and International Women's Day 2020, we took some time to discuss the industry with one of the women on the front lines of our datacenter construction, Senior Project Manager Aimee M. Guerrero. Check out her employee snapshot.
Applying Military Precision to the Data Center Supply Chain
“Today’s rapidly changing world, marked by increased speed and dense interdependencies, means that organizations everywhere are now facing dizzying challenges, from global terrorism to health epidemics to supply chain disruption to game-changing technologies. These issues can be solved only by creating sustained organizational adaptability through the establishment of a team of teams.”
Four Elements to Consider for High-density Data Centers
Speed to market, flexibility, and scalability have become mission-critical for hyperscale platforms and large enterprises when expanding or upgrading existing infrastructure.
Aligned CEO Andrew Schaap Named to D CEO’s “Dallas 500” List
Aligned is proud to announce that our Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Schaap, was named to D CEO’s annual list of the 500 most influential business leaders in Dallas.
Supply Chain Scale: Meeting the Need for Speed
As compute loads become more dynamic as demand varies from month to month, day to day, hour to hour and project to project, the supporting infrastructure and supply chain need to evolve.
Growing Need for Adaptable, Sustainable Infrastructure Drives Aligned’s Latest Expansion in Silicon Slopes
It’s been a little over four months since we officially opened the doors of our Salt Lake City-area facility in West Jordan. In those four short months, we’ve received great feedback regarding the meaningful, positive impact of our efficient, highly...
The Rise of the Adaptive Data Center
Published by: Andrew Schaap – CEO at Aligned Data CentersAddressing the evolving needs of the high-capacity buyer The data center sector has changed dramatically over the last decade, with hyperscale and platform providers driving the most recent building boom....
Aligned Named NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center Partner
Aligned has been named an NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center Partner. Among NVIDIA’s inaugural data center partners, Aligned is specially qualified to help organizations in the U.S. streamline the building and deployment of their own DGX system-based artificial...
The Top 5 Challenges of Data Disposal
The cost of a data breach can be astronomical. Each record lost is estimated to cost a business $141. While individually that doesn't seem like much, consider the scale. When an enterprise business comes under attack, the number of records can mean a $3.62 million...
