For those of you interested I will be at Data Center Dynamics in San Francisco on July 17th. I am scheduled to be on a panel moderated by James Staten of Forrester Research at 11:05AM along with Tom Furlong of Facebook, John Haas of Intel, and Bill Mazzetti of Rosendin Electric entitled ‘The Data [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Data Center Dynamics – San Francisco July 17th
Posted in Cloud Computing, Data Center Blogs, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Metrics, Michael Manos, Personal Thoughts, tagged Bill Mazzetti, Chris Crosby, Data Center Dynamics, Green Grid, John Haas, Michael Manos, San Francisco, Tom Furlong on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Its the Law of Unintended Consequences – Some Clarity around My thoughts on Data Center Regulation
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Blogs, Data Center Industry, Data Center Regulation, Michael Manos, Personal Thoughts, tagged Carbon Reduction Commitment, CRC, Data Center Regulation, data centers, Digital Realty Trust, EU ETS, Greener Computing, Inforworld, Obama Administration, Reagan, Round Table, Steven Chu on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have gotten a lot of response from the post on my thoughts on Data Center regulation. Many of the comments in a response to an Infoworld article focused on the disbelief of regulations particularly targeting data centers. A Greener Computing article felt that because the current administration is very tech-savvy they wouldn’t do anything [...]
At the Intersection of Marketing and Metrics, the traffic lights don’t work.
Posted in Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Regulation, Green Grid, Infrastructure, Modular Data Center, tagged data centers, data centres, datacenter, datacentre, Energy Efficiency, Green Grid, Marketing, Metrics, PUE on July 4, 2009 | 13 Comments »
First let me start out with the fact that the need for datacenter measurement is paramount if this industry is to be able to manage itself effectively. When I give a talk I usually begin by asking the crowd three basic questions
1) How many in attendance are monitoring and tracking electrical usage?
2) How many in [...]
