Steve Conner

Vice President, Sales & Solutions Engineering

Steve Conner serves as vice president, solutions engineering at Vantage Data Centers. He is responsible for leading the company’s sales team on technical requirements in pursuit of new business.

Conner has more than 25 years of experience in building and leading highly motivated sales and engineering teams. Prior to Vantage, Conner led the sales and engineering teams at Cloudistics, taking the start-up’s revenue from $0 to over $5 million in its first year of selling. He held multiple senior level positions at Nutanix where he built a multi-million-dollar business unit focused on managed service providers.

Conner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from University of Richmond, a Master of Science degree in computer science from George Mason University, and an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology. As part of his focus on technology and enterprise architecture, Conner has earned multiple certifications including CCNP/DP, CISSP and ISSAP.

Data Center Operations

Building the High-Density Data Centers of Tomorrow

Steve Conner, February 8, 2023 9 min read

There are few technologies as truly disruptive and with as much potential as artificial intelligence (AI). And, with the ability to better leverage historical and...

Technology & Innovation

Cloud vs. Off-Prem Data Centers – Which Workloads Go Where?

Steve Conner, April 7, 2022 8 min read

In my last article on Data Centers Today, I looked at the three different solutions that companies have today for hosting their digital workloads, data...

Technology & Innovation

Why On-Prem Data Centers Are an Endangered Species in 2022

Steve Conner, March 30, 2022 5 min read

In the past, finding a place to host, store and run workloads wasn’t complicated. You had a data center on premise that stored your data,...

Technology & Innovation

The Future of Immersion Cooling and Its Impact on Data Center Technology

Steve Conner, May 18, 2021 7 min read

Today’s applications and network-enabled systems require an immense amount of computing power. And, as these applications continue to increasingly leverage High-Performance Computing (HPC) and/or Artificial...

Business Center

The Evolution of the Hyperscale Data Center Provider – From Real Estate Firm to Tech Company

Steve Conner, March 17, 2020 8 min read

Hyperscale data center providers are nothing more than glorified real estate companies that build great big boxes with redundant power, good connectivity and quality HVAC...

Data Center Operations

Developers, IT and Facilities – Why It’s Best to Bring Them Together

Steve Conner, October 17, 2019 7 min read

Data centers used to be the purview of two different departments within an organization–IT and facilities. Traditionally, these two groups operated in silos, isolated from...