Aligned has completed a historic billion-dollar round of financing specifically linked to sustainability . CEO Andrew Schaap is eyeing the possibilities it opens up
I t ’ s a mark of Andrew Schaap ’ s modesty that he says of the Covid-19 pandemic , “ We ’ re weathering it well .” While other companies were diving for cover in the second quarter of 2020 , Aligned – where Schaap is CEO – “ saw a very big uptick in February , March , April , and May ”.
“ The pandemic has proven to be somewhat of a use case study in capacity planning for our big customers ,” he explains . “ All of them run analysis on what they can get out of a server , what they can get out of a CPU , what they can get out of a storage device or networking device . But the ones that are really born on web technologies are being pushed to the limit of what they can do . And so , our customers have been able to see just how effective adaptive infrastructure and our Delta 3 cooling technology are when it comes to seamlessly addressing those peaks in demand .”
As well as higher headroom capacity , data patterns have changed . Schaap points to a gaming
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