Measuring What Matters on the Edge – Episode 50 – Bruce Lehrman

Bruce and his team at Involta have been building, operating and managing “edge” data centers before the term “edge” even meant anything to our industry. Their success over the past 15 years has in fact seeded the business plans of many other data center companies who are hoping to establish themselves outside major markets such as Chicago, San Francisco, Ashburn, Atlanta and Dallas. Also, while most data center and infrastructure companies have been divesting of their managed hosting and IaaS arms to their business, Involta has been doubling down on these labor and capital intensive solutions. Why? Because their customers are asking them to.

Bruce and I cover a lot of ground in a relatively short period of time in this episode covering how the business got started, why they chose some of the specific markets they are in, why authentically entrenching your business with local economic development activities is important and how alternative energy plays are evolving in the industry… among many other things.