In this interview at Help Net Security, Cisco’s IT Architect for Physical Infrastructure Douglas Alger discusses modern data center innovations, the evolution of the data center in the past decade, offers a variety of tips and insight into the future of data center design. Alger develops architecture roadmaps, solutions and policies for the physical infrastructure of the company’s data centers and other critical facilities around the world. He has participated in more than 80 major data center projects, from all-new construction to substantially retrofitting existing facilities.