As an industry, we have been talking about it for some time. Some claimed it would never come and it was just a bunch of fear mongering. Others like me said it was the inevitable outcome of the intensifying focus on energy consumption. Whether you view this to be a good thing or bad thing [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Coming Soon to a Data Center near you, Regulation.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Blogs, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Regulation, Digital Realty Trust, tagged Carbon Reduction Commitment, CRC, Data Center Regulation, data centers, Digital Realty Trust, EU ETS, Obama Administration, Round Table on June 19, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Dinner and fireworks
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Regulation, Personal Thoughts, tagged Michael Manos, PUE, Digital Realty Trust, Jim Smith, Bernard Geoghegan, Data Center Round Table, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Tier, Cloud Services on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I attended my first Digital Realty Round Table Discussion in London and it was a fantastic treat and topper for my trip to the UK. For those of you not familiar with these events, its an opportunity to discuss the challenges and issues facing the industry in an informal setting. The events are [...]
Schneider / Digital New York Speaking Engagement
Posted in Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Technologies, Digital Realty Trust, Infrastructure, Modular Data Center, tagged Chris Crosby, Dan Golding, Data Center, Energy Efficiency, Michael Manos, Schneider, Symposium, Tier One Research on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case anyone wanted to connect – I wanted to highlight that I will be co-presenting the keynote at the Schneider Symposium at the Millenium Broadway hotel in New York City with Chris Crosby of Digital Realty Trust. I will also be giving a talk on practical applications of Energy Efficiency and sitting on [...]
Upcoming Webinar on Modular Data Centers
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Technologies, Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, Webinar, tagged Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, Containers, Pod Architecture, Webinar, container data center on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On June 22, 2009 I will be hosting a free webinar for Digital Realty Trust on Modular Data Center approaches. Its a topic I have some expertise on and quite a bit of passion around. So I hope to not embarrass myself too thoroughly. If you have interest in the future of where data center [...]
DC Curmudgeon and Greenbean :Beware Frenzied Lions
Posted in DC Curmudgeon and Greenbean, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Metrics, tagged abacus, Data Center comic strip, Data Center Humor on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chiller-Side Chats : Is Power Capping Ready for PrimeTime?
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Power Capping, Data Center Technologies, Personal Thoughts, tagged Data center best practices, Data Center Business Decisions, Data Center Capacity Planning, data center truth, eye on blades, hp, power capping, prime time, server power capping on June 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I was very pleased at the great many responses to my data center capacity planning chat. They came in both public and private notes with more than a healthy population of those centered around my comments on power capping and their potential disagreement on why I don’t think the technology/applications/functionality is 100% there yet. So [...]
DC Curmudgeon and Greenbean: The State of the Industry
Posted in DC Curmudgeon and Greenbean, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, tagged Data Center comic strip, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Humor on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be a comic strip artist. So I thought I would take a crack at it and apply it to our Industry. I have a few more in the works. Hope you enjoy!
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Chiller-Side Chats: The Capacity Problem
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Computing, Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, tagged Critical load, Data Center, Data Center Capacity Planning, impact of virtualization in the data center, nameplate, Non-Critical load, Reserved power, total load, virtualization on June 2, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I recently had a conversation with the CIO of a well respected company who informed me that his “data center people” had completely mismanaged his data center space which was now causing them to look at having to lease additional capacity or more aggressively pursue virtualization to solve the problem. Furthermore he was powerless to [...]
