About
The Technology Association of Georgia’s (TAG) Infrastructure Society is a professional organization focusing on and dedicated to the digital infrastructure that support’s Georgia’s mission critical needs and enables Georgia’s unprecedented economic growth and development. The society is comprised of members from leading technology companies, entrepreneurs, executives, and public policy makers who are committed to advancing the region’s digital infrastructure and connecting professionals from all corners of the infrastructure space, including power, connectivity, data centers, and government relations.
Mission
Our mission is to promote, educate, unite and inform the infrastructure ecosystem through regular meetings, events, mixers, podcasts and other thought leadership efforts and gatherings, and to make TAG IS the premier source of information and knowledge for the industry within the state of Georgia.
Society Benefits:
- Grow your professional network and influence by working alongside industry leaders
- Gain knowledge of the most important trends and developments in Georgia’s digital infrastructure ecosystem
- Become a thought leader in your industry
- Help run the TAG Infrastructure Talk podcast and/or other TAG IS events, including our signature Data Center Summit and Veteran’s CIO Roundtable
- Give back to the industry through volunteerism
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Infrastructure Society Board
Corey Lemming
Society Board Chair
Parker Brunelle
Society Vice Chair
Alan Poole
Immediate Past Society Board Chair and Podcast Host
Michelle Adams
Ralph Amos
Karlton Holston
Gregg Jacobson
Cheryl Kleiman
David Knotts
Jason Midlam
Hunter Sheehan
Patrick Stephens
Stephen Stewart
Smart Broadband
Jeff Uphues
Bill Wilkins
Infrastructure Society Committee
Cory Case
David Hjerpe
DataBank
Jake Seau
Bill Thomson
Kate West
Smart 3rd Party
Emeritus Board Advisor
Darryl L. Berman
Steve Laufersweiler
Recent Infrastructure News
Enabling Fault-Tolerant Multicast in Cloud-Native Architectures: Bridging On-Prem and Multi-Cloud Environments
Atlanta, July 14, 2025 –Cloud platforms like OCI, Azure, and GCP lack native multicast support, complicating real-time, fault-tolerant application deployment. This white paper presents a swXtch.io-based multicast overlay enabling resilient, lossless communication across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Validated in OCI with up to 86% latency reduction and near-zero packet loss, it leverages SDN, PTP, Helm, and CI/CD automation. The solution paves the way for industry-wide cloud migration of multicast applications and future IETF standardization.
CoreSite Releases 2025 State of the Data Center Report Underscoring the Critical Role of Colocation and Connectivity in Enterprise Hybrid IT Infrastructure
CoreSite, an American Tower company (NYSE: AMT) empowering critical business and AI workloads that impact everyday life through interconnected data center solutions, today released its 2025 State of the Data Center Report, which examines the latest data center and cloud computing trends, strategies and requirements. Now in its sixth year, the 2025 report finds business and IT leaders are navigating a world where they must increasingly rely on digitization – particularly emerging technologies like AI – to innovate, generate revenue and modernize their organizations, all while managing costs in an uncertain economic environment.
DC Blox, the data center and network services company more than doubles its office footprint in Atlanta
The new HQ of the rapidly growing data center and network services provider will occupy Crown Pointe at 1040 Crown Pointe in Atlanta.
