Prioritizing and Qualifying the Greenification of Data Centers
A Q&A with Portman Partners Associate Ian Bitterlin
Ian Bitterlin
Ian Bitterlin is a Portman Partners Associate and a Chartered Engineer with more than 32 years experience in data center power and cooling, following 21 years in rotating electrical machines and systems. Formerly CTO for Emerson Network Power Systems in EMEA and Visiting Professor to the University of Leeds, School of Mechanical Engineering, Bitterlin is now principal consultant at Critical Facilities Consulting. Having filled senior posts in major UPS and data center OEMs, Anton Piller, Liebert, Emerson Network Power, Active Power & Chloride, Bitterlin has been instrumental in key product innovations and continues to consult on new data center design and M&E products. Bitterlin has been honored with the “Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Industry” award twice, by Data Centres Europe in 2009 and by DataCenterDynamics EMEA in 2015.