Keeping Critical Facilities Running: A Deep Dive with Radix IoT

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The digital infrastructure powering our modern world faces unprecedented challenges – from AI's insatiable power demands to increasingly unpredictable weather events threatening uptime. How do data centers adapt and survive?

Dave Schaible, Chief Operating Officer at Radix IoT, pulls back the curtain on the sophisticated monitoring systems keeping critical facilities operational 24/7. Their cloud-native Mango platform collects second-by-second data from infrastructure components across four continents, providing the real-time intelligence needed to prevent costly outages and optimize performance.

The conversation explores the three pillars keeping data center operators awake at night: capacity constraints, reliability concerns, and environmental monitoring. With AI applications demanding up to thousands of kilowatts per rack, many facilities face difficult retrofitting decisions or must build entirely new infrastructure. Real-time visibility allows strategic workload balancing during extreme weather, potentially shifting processing power from storm-threatened regions to safer locations.

We also delve into the expanding edge of data center geography – from remote mountaintops to the Australian outback – and how cellular and satellite connections enable monitoring of these distant facilities. Dave explains how regulatory compliance, customer data sharing, and sustainability reporting have evolved from nice-to-have features to essential requirements for competitive operations.

Whether you manage critical infrastructure or simply depend on digital services, this conversation reveals the invisible systems and strategies ensuring our digital world keeps running even as technological demands intensify. Subscribe to learn more about the technological foundations supporting our increasingly digital lives.

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