I just wanted to take a moment and wish everyone out there that reads my blog a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Wonderful New Year. Thank you so much for spending a portion of your valuable time online with me and I sincerely hope you find some of it useful. The Year 2009 is [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, A well wishes for 2010
Posted in Michael Manos, Personal Thoughts, tagged Christmas, New Year, Thanks on December 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Kickin’ Dirt
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Power Capping, Data Center Processes, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Site Selection, Green IT, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Microsoft Data Centers, tagged Data Center Operations, Global Switch, Joel Stone, Microsoft, Operations, Quincy, Site Selection, Washington on December 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I recently got an interesting note from Joel Stone, the Global Operations Chief at Global Switch. As some of you might know Joel used to run North American Operations for me at Microsoft. I guess he was digging through some old pictures and found this old photo of our initial site selection trip to Quincy, [...]
Live Chiller-Side Chat scheduled for Monday
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Data Center Industry, Digital Realty Trust, Michael Manos, Personal Thoughts, Webinar, tagged Chiller Side Chats, Live Chiller Side Chat, Michael Manos, Rich Miller on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just wanted to send a quick reminder that if you are interested, I am scheduled to give another Live Chiller Side Chat hosted by Rich Miller, editor of DataCenterKnowledge. The last time we did this we got a ton of great participation and lively interaction. Topics ranged between Cloud Computing, infrastructure, data center design, [...]
Data Center Regulation Awareness Increasing, Prepare for CO2K
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Regulation, Michael Manos, Microsoft Data Centers, tagged Carbon Cap and Trade Regulation, Carbon Reduction Commitment, CO2K, Data Center, Data Center Site Selection, Gartner Data Center Conference, IT, Las Vegas, Waxman-Markey bill on December 3, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This week I had the pleasure of presenting at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, NV. This was my first time presenting at the Gartner event and it represented an interesting departure from my usual conference experience in a few ways and I came away with some new observations and thoughts. As always, [...]
