Award: Ken Brill Honored with Datacentre Leaders’ Contribution to Industry
Kenneth G. Brill, founder and CTO of Upsite Technologies, a developer of energy-efficient, high-availability solutions designed to optimize a data center’s critical physical infrastructure, received the Outstanding Contribution to Industry tribute at the Datacentre Leaders’ Awards held by Datacenter Dynamics in London, England last December.
In the past 25 years, Brill has developed or influenced a range of concepts that have shaped the modern data center industry. He developed the concept of dual power to the IT device and was influential in the creation of the Tier Classification System, and the methodology to optimize cooling airflow. Brill’s recent data center research on rising heat densities and escalating power consumption has focused the industry on the critical issues of energy use, cost, reliability, and the changing economics of IT applications.
