Toronto Electricians and Electrical Contractors

Twenty-five years ago, electrical system consulting engineers and specifiers were using calculators and PC-powered spreadsheets (remember VisiCalc?) to design and spec’ systems. A simulation was something done on a benchtop. CAD was in its infancy, with server processing speeds measured in MIPS and Product specs were downloaded from a CD-ROM. The industry has evolved , adapted to and harnessed emerging technologies, understanding and responding to the business impact of new power technologies such as renewable energy, sensor-based smart systems and building automated controls. Leveraging design and collaboration tools such as CAD, VR-based simulation or rapid prototyping and 3D printing. But what if your company had been 12 months, two years or even five years ahead of the curve in predicting, what would your business look like today if you had a view of what was on the horizon back then? What new business models might have given you a competitive edge? And what lies ahead in the ne...

If you could go back in time, how would you possibly explain modern data center concepts to a late-1960s “data processing programmer”? In those days it was not uncommon to see a paper sign posted in the data center that would read “The computer is down today”.  Computer systems were big and finnicky. Not many people knew how to run them or fix them.  In fact, the building that housed THE computer was not called a data center at all.  “Processing center” was the more familiar nomenclature. Most of these processing centers were owned, operated and maintained by big banks. Trucks loaded with paper would arrive in the evening, and the data would be “crunched” overnight in the processing center. Printouts would be created and sent back to bank branches the next day. State of the art. Right? Given the realities of that bygone era, how would our late-60’s processing operator react to the following list of modern data center “unimaginables”? 1. “You don’t need the utility to ...