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The Data Center Software Bet That Begins With a Humbling Question: Is Your Asset List Even Right?
MCIM sells a single source of truth for the physical machinery behind the cloud. Its most persuasive pitch is not artificial intelligence - it is the awkward discovery that expensive facilities often run on dirty data, scattered workflows and heroic memory.
Accelevation Bet $50 Million That the AI Boom Needs a Factory Floor
The Ohio manufacturer survived a shutdown-era order collapse, found a wedge in polycarbonate panels and built its way into power, steel and field installation. Its real product is not a door or a cable - it is fewer handoffs on a data-center schedule.
Amentum Is the $14 Billion Company Behind the Missions You Rarely See
It helps launch spacecraft, secure data, sustain military fleets and clean up nuclear legacies. Amentum's real product is the ability to make high-consequence systems work for years at a time.
M.C. Dean, Inc.
The 77-year-old family company has turned electrical contracting into a $3 billion cyber-physical infrastructure business - one that builds critical systems in a factory before they ever reach the job site.
Mark Housley
Mark Housley is the Chairman and CEO of Vigilent, an Oakland-based AI-powered cooling optimization company that serves over 1,500 data center and telecom facilities across 36 countries. A serial entrepreneur and seasoned technology executive, Housley has led multiple companies through turnarounds, acquisitions, and growth phases across optical networking, display technology, and enterprise software. At Vigilent, he oversees a platform backed by 52 patents in applied AI that has collectively reduced energy consumption by hundreds of millions of kilowatt hours and eliminated hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 emissions globally.