BC NA December 2020

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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