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When it comes to true innovation, maintaining an unrelenting mindset to uncover and detect a customer’s latent needs is paramount. In the last 13 years, I’ve witnessed this mindset in action when I collaborate with Kevin Brown , SVP of Innovation and CTO, Secure Power, Schneider Electric. One of Kevin’s favorite quotes to share when it comes to new product development is from Henry Ford, who famously said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Kevin approaches his innovation with just this type of thinking – he listens and studies our customers, their work, their behaviors and sees their pain points and areas of improvement as opportunities for innovation. Whether it was our mission to design data centers that are more predictable and delivered faster , installed faster , or today’s proliferation of micro data centers at the edge, Kevin, like Henry Ford, has always seen the car through the horses. That is one of the many reasons Kevin has been ...

The boom in corporate renewable energy purchasing has impacted every industry, but nowhere is leadership stronger than in the information technology sector. The largest and most innovative corporate purchasers inhabit this space, ranging from software (Microsoft, Salesforce, and Facebook) to hardware (Intel, Samsung, and Apple) to cloud-service and colocation providers (Amazon Web Services, Switch, and iomart ). What’s driving this revolution and why should other cloud-service and colocation providers take notice? 1) Falling Price through Technology Improvement and Scale One of the biggest motivations behind corporate renewable energy demand is cost. In the past decade, the price of renewables like wind and solar have fallen dramatically, bolstered by subsidization, but also due to the levelized cost of these technologies. Unlike coal, oil, and natural gas—which depend on extraction—renewable energy generation gets cheaper over time as technology improves and scales. Falling cost...