David Korté is the Founder and President of DatacenterOps, a division of Portal Systems, Inc., headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, home to the world's largest concentration of data centers. He leads data center infrastructure projects for enterprise IT organizations, cloud providers, carriers, and colocation operators throughout Northern Virginia, the Mid-Atlantic, and across the United States.
David's work spans the full lifecycle of data center execution, including rack and stack deployments, smart hands support, IT logistics, decommissioning, and large-scale relocations. His teams have delivered projects ranging from single-rack installations to multi-site enterprise migrations, providing the operational precision required to keep critical systems online during moves, upgrades, and decommissions.
With more than 25 years in IT infrastructure, David brings a field-tested perspective shaped by thousands of deployments, migrations, and service engagements. He speaks and writes on infrastructure operations, field execution standards, and the operational realities that determine whether a deployment succeeds.