Cat and Mouse with Multi-national infrastructure –The Participants to date There is an ever-changing, game of cat and mouse developing in the world of cloud computing. Its not a game that you as a consumer might see, but it is there. An undercurrent that has been there from the beginning. It pits Technology Companies and [...]
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The Cloud Cat and Mouse Papers – The Primer
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Cloud Cat and Mouse, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Operations, Cloud Regulation, Cloud Risks, Cloud Services, Data Center Industry, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, tagged Big Data, Cloud Cat and Mouse, Cloud Computing, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Regulation, Cloud Risks, Cloud Services, Content, IAAS, Infrastructure as a Service, Infrastructure Taxation, PAAS, PII Data, Platform as a Service, Safe Harbor Regulation, Taxation on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cloud Détente – The Cloud Cat and Mouse Papers
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Cloud Cat and Mouse, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Operations, Cloud Regulation, Cloud Services, container data center, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, tagged Big Data, Cloud Cat and Mouse, Cloud Computing, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Regulation, Cloud Risks, Cloud Services, Content, Infrastructure Taxation, PII Data, Safe Harbor Regulation, Taxation on April 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Over the last decade or so I have been lucky enough to be placed into a fairly unique position to work internationally deploying global infrastructure for cloud environments. This work has spanned across some very large companies with a very dedicated focus on building out global infrastructure and managing through those unique challenges. Strategies may [...]
Olivier Sanche, My Dear Friend, Adieu
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Cloud Computing, Cloud Operations, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Green IT, Michael Manos, Personal Thoughts, tagged Apple, Data Center, Data Center Industry, Olivier Sanche on November 29, 2010 | 15 Comments »
The data center industry has suffered a huge loss this holiday weekend with the passing of Olivier Sanche, head of Apple’s Data Center program. He was an incredibly thoughtful man, a great father and husband, and very sincerely a great friend. As I got off the phone with his brother and wife in France who [...]
Site Selection,Data Center Clustering and their Interaction
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, container data center, Data Center Clustering, Data Center Industry, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Site Selection, Infrastructure, tagged Ascent, CH2, Chicago Data Center, Data Center Carbon, Data Center Clustering, Data Center Site Selection, Data center water, Phil Horstmann, Power Generation Mix, Power Mix Volatility, Quincy Washington, Safe Harbor Regulation on July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have written many times on the importance of the site selection for data centers and its growing importance when one considers the regulatory and legislative efforts underway globally. Those who make their living in this space know that this is going to have a significant impact on the future landscape of these electronic bit [...]
C02K Doubter? Watch the Presidential address today
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Cloud Computing, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Site Selection, Green IT, Michael Manos, Uptime Institute, tagged CO2K, Data Center Business Decisions, Data Center Carbon, Data Center CO2, Michael Manos, Uptime Institute, Waxman-Markey bill on June 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Are you a Data Center professional who doubts that Carbon legislation is going to happen or that this initiative will never get off the ground? This afternoon President Obama plans to outline his intention to assess a cost for Carbon consumption at a conference highlighting his economic accomplishments to date. The backdrop of this of [...]
Reflections on Uptime Symposium 2010 in New York
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Cloud Computing, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Technologies, Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, Personal Thoughts, Tier One Research, Uptime Institute, tagged Andrew Fanara, attendance, CO2K, container data center, Containers, Dan Costello, Dr. Bob Sullivan, Keynote Speaker, New York, observations, Sean Farney, Symposium 2010, Uptime Institute on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week I had the honor to be a keynote Speaker at the Uptime Institute’s Symposium event in New York City. I also participated in some industry panels which is always tons of fun. However, as a keynote at the first Symposium a few years back it was an interesting experience to come back and [...]
Open Source Data Center Initiative
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Computing, container data center, Data Center Contracts, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Site Selection, Green Grid, Green IT, Modular Data Center, Open Source Data Centers, Uptime Institute, tagged Data Center Pulse, data centers, Green Grid, Linux, Open Source Data Center Initiative, Uptime Institute on March 3, 2010 | 12 Comments »
There are many in the data center industry that have repeatedly called for change in this community of ours. Change in technology, change in priorities, Change for the future. Over the years we have seen those changes come very slowly and while they are starting to move a little faster now, (primarily due to the [...]
CIO Magazine Data Center Roundtable
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Services, container data center, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Technologies, Digital Realty Trust, Green IT, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, tagged CIO Magazine, Data Center Round Table, Michael Manos on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday January 13th, I will be co-hosting a Roundtable Dinner with Chicago area CIOs on the topic of data centers and the data center industry at large. The event is sponsored by CIO Magazine and is likely to be a wide ranging conversation given the mix of executives slated to come. The group will [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
