Leading Edge Design Group

I’ve been a fan of Apple products since computers have been a part of my life.  They’re sleek, efficient and most importantly different.  Every time I see their logo it brings a smile to my face.  Their aura emits a “simple” glow, yet behind the scenes a complex set of developed pieces is working together to make an end users experience painless.  Apple has effectively targeted different groups of end users and offered a plethora of products to cover the different needs/wants of these audiences.  One of their latest releases has received a slight buzz of criticism surrounding it’s presence; the iPad. 

You’ll either love or hate the iPad; the middle ground between these emotions is scarce.  Critics deem it pointless, unnecessary and under accessorized.  I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum; iPads serve multiple purposes, they’re quite useful and come out of the box ready to serve.  E-mail?  Absolutely, the real question is how many of your email accounts do you want delivered to the iPad (including your exchange account from work).  Music, Movies and Photos?  Of course.  Need the weather?  Done, there’s free app waiting to show you more than the 6:00 news. Need something else?  Browse the 10,000 plus apps, chance would have it you’ll find what you need.

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August 30, 2010 – Ridgefield, CT – Leading Edge Design Group, a leading provider of energy optimization services, announced their expansion today with the opening of an office location in Ridgefield, CT. 

Rapid growth and increased demand were key factors in Leading Edge Design Group’s decision to expand into Southern Connecticut.  The new location will allow the firm to serve the New England marketplace comprehensively and with sufficient resources to support their rising number of active projects.

“We are a hands-on firm and believe in immersing ourselves in a project from a design, existing site, and implementation perspective,” says Todd Boucher, Principal of Leading Edge Design Group.  Our customer market continues to expand and we felt it was important to geographically diversify our resources.  The (Ridgefield) Connecticut office will enhance our ability to respond to client needs and provide local oversight of projects in the southern New England region.”

Leading Edge Design Group currently has a number of active projects in the Connecticut and southern New England areas.  For more information please contact Leading Edge Design Group here.

Online stores have a traffic pattern of the sites that people visit; monitoring how consumers got to the site or specific page and how much time they spent looking at products and recording what was purchased.

Owners of retail stores gather information about sales at the register every day. They have a daily record of what items or combinations of items were purchased by each customer, however they don’t have any record of where customers traveled in their store and how much time they spent shopping in a given area of the store. Imagine if that information was available to them so they could better streamline their displays based on foot traffic and shopping behaviors.

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Cambridge, MA – July 30, 2010 – Leading Edge Design Group, a leading provider of energy optimization services, announced today that the firm has been awarded the design for the new Sanofi-Aventis Data Center in Cambridge, MA.  As part of a large new $65 million expansion Sanofi-Aventis will construct a new state-of-the-art data center with next-generation equipment capable of supporting extremely high density applications.

The new Cambridge facility for Sanofi-Aventis is currently under design development and Leading Edge Design Group is collaborating with a diverse team of architects, engineers, and owner representatives to ensure the new data center is energy-efficient, high density, and supports seamless growth through “plug and play” design architectures.  “We are thrilled to be chosen to work with a firm like Sanofi-Aventis and excited for the challenge of creating next-generation data center space in a historic Cambridge building,” says Todd Boucher, Principal at Leading Edge Design Group.  “The Sanofi-Aventis team is extremely knowledgeable in and has extensive experience with data center design and we look forward to working closely with them as the project moves through the design process.” 

The Sanofi-Aventis data center is currently under design development in Cambridge, MA.

Virtualization technologies today are allowing customers to consolidate servers at ratios of 15:1, 20:1, and possibly more, helping IT teams increase operational efficiency and decrease rack footprint requirements inside their data center.  In addition, organizations are leveraging virtualization for the energy improvements it provides them, as the total decrease in energy realized by consolidating multiple legacy “volume” servers far outweighs the energy consumed by one more high-powered blade center. 

To encourage these efficient practices in the data center, we are starting to see utility companies provide incentives for virtualization/consolidation projects.  Although not universally offered, we have seen existing prescriptive programs where utilities are offering incentives of $100, $200, and even $250 per server removed or consolidated.  By making these programs prescriptive, utilities are essentially equating the replacement of a volume server with a virtual server (through consolidation) to the replacement of a T12 lighting fixture with a HPT8.  In other words, virtualize your servers and you are automatically more efficient. 

Or are you?

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