For over thirty five years, DSA Encore had been providing products and services to the ever-evolving data center industry.  DSA is a diversified design-build, equipment and service organization that helps customers scale their mission critical data center businesses.

DSA Encore evolved out of several precursor companies starting with KW Sales which was founded by Bernie Friedman in 1976 to sell power supplies for IBM mainframes at the dawn of the data center industry.   KW Sales soon became one of the Northeast’s leading data center infrastructure sales rep firms by focusing on the sale and integration of Piller Rotary UPS systems and associated controls.

Soon after Bernie’s son, Steve, joined the business in 1983, the company was re-organized as Data Support Associates (DSA).   Steve expanded the business to include a diversified compliment of data center infrastructure products and also launched, with his partner Rudy Kraus, Data Support Systems to focus on the design and construction of data center facilities.  As the business continued to grow, DSA added nearly 20 data center product lines to its portfolio and eventually rolled Data Support Systems – the Design-Build business - into Data Support Associates as a way to deliver to the market a more complete set of end-to-end data center solutions under one brand.  By the early 1990’s DSA had become one of the county’s leading data center product sales organizations, a design-builder and a full-range system integrator.

Beginning in 1994, building on a history of innovation, DSA began to “incubate” market leading technologies and services within it New Products Division.  This lead to the launch and spin-off of numerous successful businesses such as Harmonics Limited, HorizonLine Technologies, Rubicon Integration, Validus DC Systems to name a few.  In addition to these, some of the newly formed companies remained part of DSA’s core business, these included: what would eventually become DSA Mission Critical Services – the company's Service and Preventative Maintenance organization (launched in 1998) and Encore Power and Environmental – the company's surplus and remanufactured equipment business which was launched in 2000.

In 2004, once again to keep clarity of its brand, and in order to emphasize DSA’s end-to-end data center capabilities, Data Support Associates merged with Encore Power and Environmental to become DSA Encore, LLC with DSA Mission Critical Services rolling up underneath DSA Encore as a wholly owned subsidiary of the new company.

To this day, DSA Encore remains one of North America’s leading integrated end-to-end data center solution businesses by recruiting, training and developing the best talent in the data center industry and never losing sight of our absolute commitment to remaining a responsive, trustworthy, expert, dependable partner that always does the right thing when it comes to customer satisfaction.