This week I had the honor and privilege of being a guest at the US Army War College as part of their 2008 Strategy Implementation Seminar. The program focuses on strategy and leadership to further prepare the graduates for their future roles as leaders of the United States Military. The program culminates in a special [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Reflections on my visit to the US Army War College
Posted in Personal Thoughts, tagged Army War College, Strategic Implementation Seminar, United States Army War College on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Data Center Leadership video posted at TechEd
Posted in Data Center Conferences, Uncategorized, tagged Interview, Michael Manos, Microsoft, Panel on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I recently did a panel at TechEd in Orlando. While there Lewis Curtis caught me for a moment to shoot some questions at me around Data Center leadership. It may or may not be interesting to you (My money is on the latter ). But if you are interested the link can be found below: [...]
Green Grid Data Center Indicator + CADE = Something useful!
Posted in Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, tagged CADE, Christian Belady, Data Center Indicator Tool, Data Center KPI, Green Grid, McKinsey, Uptime Institute on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are times when two concepts merge and the result makes something better than the whole. It is not unlike the old television commercial where two people collide into each other. One eating a chocolate bar, the other a vat of peanut butter. The resulting lines are television gold: “Your chocolate is in my peanut [...]
Struggling with CADE, McKinsey / Uptime Metric (RE-POST)
Posted in Data Center Metrics, tagged CADE, Data Center Metrics, Ken Brill, McKinsey, Microsoft, Uptime Institute on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is a Re-post of my original blog post on May 5th regarding tortured thoughts around the CADE Data Center Metric put forward by McKinsey. This has relevance to my next post and I am placing it here for your convenience. I guess I should start out this post with the pre-emptive statement that [...]
Upcoming Speaking Events
Posted in Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Infrastructure, tagged 7x24 Exchange, Conferences, Data Center Dynamics, Power and Cooling on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you interested, I thought I would outline some of my upcoming speaking events: August 7th, 2008 – Data Center Dynamics Keynote – Seattle Presentation: “The Need for Data Center Glasnost” September 16th, 2008 – Data Center Dynamics Keynote – Chicago Presentation: “Containers, Fact, Fiction and Fantasy” October 2, 2008 – Power and [...]
Do Not Tighten Bolts
Posted in Cloud Computing, Personal Thoughts, tagged "Do Not Tighten Bolts", Cloud Services Methodology, Data Center Infrastructure, IT Flexibility, Microsoft on July 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have a pretty incredible job. My current role has me leading Microsoft’s efforts at designing, constructing, and operating its world-wide Data Center infrastructure in support of our cloud services initiatives, or more correctly “Software + Services”. There aren’t many people around tasked with this kind of challenge, in fact the number of companies attempting [...]
