December 3 marked an exciting milestone for the entire Aligned team as we “topped off” our second hyperscale data center in Ashburn, VA alongside our general contractor HITT, other construction partners and representatives from Loudoun County. HITT representative Mike Abe kicked off the celebration by congratulating all involved and inviting team members to sign a […]

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). REBA is 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 […]

Published by: Andrew Schaap – CEO at Aligned Data Centers  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 […]

Speed to market, flexibility, and scalability have become mission-critical for hyperscale platforms and large enterprises when expanding or upgrading existing infrastructure. Meteoric growth and unprecedented scalability demands are outpacing what high capacity data center customers, such as cloud and platform providers and enterprise organizations, want to produce in their own facilities. Moreover, when expanding into […]

“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.” ― General Stanley […]

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. The Dallas 500 celebrates the most influential leaders in North Texas from more than 60 business categories. Produced by the editors of D CEO, the Dallas 500 provides a personal, engaging look at […]

Published by: Andrew Schaap – CEO at Aligned Data Centers 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 needs evolve. Today’s forward-looking companies, including hyperscalers, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers, and enterprises with high-density computing requirements, require a data center provider that […]

When talking about technology, security is always a top-line issue. Data breaches are costly and a near-constant risk. Today, 54 percent of companiesreport being the victim of a successful cyber attack. Many companies faced with data loss never recover, so identifying and plugging holes in your security is a crucial task. With the number of cyber […]

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 reliable and adaptive data center platform. Completed in just six months, the first phase of data center […]

Published by: Andrew Schaap – CEO at Aligned Data Centers Addressing 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. According to new data published by Synergy Research Group, the number of large data centers operated by […]

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 intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program provides customers with access to a qualified network of NVIDIA colocation partners […]

You Don’t Need a Crystal Ball to Future-proof Your Data Center Rapid technological change, growing needs for bandwidth and increased data center capacity and distribution needs are constantly challenging CTOs, CIOs, CEOs and their organizations to find more agile, cost-effective and scalable solutions for the data centers that house their information technology. While there are […]

The environmental cost of data centers is on the rise, with energy topping the list of concerns. While these centers provide massive amounts of digital storage and grow compute power for businesses and consumers, the operational costs of these centers aren’t only measured in dollars.  Hidden Costs of Digital Technologies Newer data centers consume a […]

Data scientists predict that data volume will double every two years. But, that may not include all the data coming in from IoT devices and the rapid adoption of smartphones, globally. Some predictions put raw data numbers in excess of 44 zettabytes by 2020. Over the past two years, 90 percent of data has been […]

Over the next three years, data and analytics programs will become even more mission-critical throughout businesses and across industries. The digital business future confronts leaders with almost unlimited possibilities to create business value. This transition requires moving away from the old mindset of siloed data, applications and analytics used for reactive reporting and basic analytics. […]

It’s not uncommon to read about data breaches in the news. As the saying goes “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” so are security best practices and technologies that can protect modern personal data from breaches. When it comes to your private data and personal information, a data center has the […]

There is a sea of data center design guidelines and standards that IT leaders must wade through to select, build and implement the most effective and efficient data center. This monumental task is only compounded as IT leaders must also weigh risks to the business, such as downtime, plan for the initial capital cost and manage ongoing […]

The latest Jurassic Park movie reminds us that there are still many dinosaur data centers operating today. It’s imperative that data centers modernize—not just to meet today’s demands but to exceed the expectations of the future. By 2022, enterprise data centers will have five times more computational capabilities per kilowatt than today, according to Gartner. Data […]

Learn to Save Water or Your Data Center May Tank 757 million liters. That’s about 2,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools–all full of crystal-clear, cool water. That’s how much freshwater a typical large, cloud data center complex with cooling towers used on average in 2017, even though fresh water is a dwindling and limited resource worldwide, especially in […]