Michael drives and implements Stream’s overall business strategies and technical go-to-market offerings, with responsibility for site development, design and construction, supply chain and operations. Michael joined Stream in 2010, was named COO in 2017 and also serves as a member of Stream’s corporate Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) committee.
He is well-versed in critical systems, as evidenced by his early work with avionics platforms for military aircraft, solutions architecture for global power and cooling product manufacturers, followed by a long series of world-class data center developments.
Michael holds an electrical engineering degree from Texas Christian University, where he successfully competed on the varsity soccer team. He also holds a master’s degree in systems engineering and an MBA in finance from Southern Methodist University. His professional affiliations include membership on the Advisory Council with Infrastructure Masons, a networking organization and knowledge exchange focused on reliability among mission-critical information infrastructure executives.
Learn more about Stream Data Centers’ perspective on navigating this perfect storm and delivering the capacity hyperscalers need, via build-to-suit solutions we've been delivering since 1999.
COVID-19 has been a perfect storm for the digital infrastructure industry.
Our colleague Chris Bair wrote an article about how
When endeavoring to maximize the impacts of green initiatives, it’s not enough to be attentive to one’s own clean energy procurement. Forward-thinking data center providers also need to find a way to enable clients and partners to leverage their own specific strategies.
Whether one needs a build-to-suit data center or existing colocation space, customers trust a data center provider’s construction team to get the buildout right. Currently, the data center market is booming.
Exciting news! We’re getting close to completion of our
With all the futuristic talk about Internet of Things (IoT) applications and corresponding workloads, we thought it was a good time to sit down with 451 Research and look at what’s happening here and now. In this article, we summarize the key points of the brief, entitled
Connecting to the cloud holds many benefits for enterprises of all sizes; from Fortune 500s to emerging technology start-ups. Whether leveraging compute and storage in the cloud or models like hybrid cloud, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS), companies across America are looking to leverage the flexibility and scalability of the cloud to improve both time to market and efficiency.
Top 3 Data Center Market Trends For 2019: Here at Stream Data Centers, we have just come off a whirlwind past couple of weeks. As you might have seen, we just announced a
In the wake of our growing digital economy and a data center industry that’s continually challenged with staying ahead of the customers’ IT roadmaps, different end-users have emerged to distinguish themselves with varying data center requirements. The evolving challenge, however, is how to efficiently build data centers for various types of users.
Why Data Center Users Choose Texas.
The Texas data center market historically attracts a steady amount of demand, but over the past several years, activity has exceeded expectations.
In the wake of our growing digital economy and a data center industry that’s continually challenged with staying ahead of the customers’ IT roadmaps, different end-users have emerged to distinguish themselves with varying data center requirements. The evolving challenge, however, is how to efficiently build data centers for various types of users.
The Texas data center market historically attracts a steady amount of data center demand, but over the past several years, activity has exceeded expectations. Its central U.
As the data center industry becomes more efficient, company user requirements have become more advanced. The increased need for additional services, specifically access to cloud services, creates a unique partnership between colocation and cloud providers.
Recent studies confirm that as companies are increasing their data center space, the amount they actually own will decrease in the coming years. Leasing a data center incurs lower costs, a significantly faster timeline, and requires far less expertise than designing, building, and operating a data center.
Michael Lahoud, Senior Vice President - Technology Services
Over the past several years, scalable data center solutions have become a trend in the industry. Currently, several major data center markets across the U.
"At Stream Data Centers, our clients are our business," says Michael Lahoud, senior vice president of technology services. In this video, Michael takes viewers on a tour of SDC, and highlights the core values of Stream’s data centers and how each data center is built.
