Data Center construction has reached an incredible pace over the last few years with implications on NetOps and operations of all kinds.  Today we with talk with sponsor Siemon regarding the state of data centers, past, present and future.  We explore legacy data centers and how they are evolving to work in today’s environments.  We then consider the current explosion in growth of data centers due to AI and what that means for data center design in all sizes of data centers.  Lastly, we look forward to where data centers are headed in the future and how to plan for scale and new workloads.

Our guest today is Dave Fredricks, a Data Center Sales Engineer at Siemon, a major player in cabling and physical infrastructure for high-performance data centers.