As many of you saw in my last note, I have officially left Digital Realty Trust to address some personal things. While I get those things in order I am not sitting idling by. I am extremely happy to announce that I have taken a role at Nokia as their VP of Service Operations. In [...]
Archive for the ‘Data Center Blogs’ Category
Rolling Clouds – My Move into the Mobile Cloud
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Operations, Cloud Services, Data Center Blogs, Data Center Industry, Data Center Technologies, Digital Realty Trust, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Nokia, tagged Apple, Cloud Operations, data centers, Google, Infrastructure, Manos leaves Digital Realty Trust, Microsoft, Nokia, Olivier Sanche, Urs Hoelze on January 31, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A Digital Adieu
Posted in Data Center Blogs, Data Center Fun, Data Center Industry, Digital Realty Trust, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Personal Thoughts, tagged BTS Data Centers, Departure, Digital Realty Trust, DIY Data Centers, DLR, Manos Resignation, Manos Resigns, Michael Manos, POD Architecture Services, Resigns on January 29, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Those who follow the news from Digital Realty Trust closely may have recently read that I have decided to leave the company to focus a bit more on some personal work/life balance issues. With this move comes a new role that I will talk more of in the coming days and weeks. I would like [...]
A look back and a look forward…
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, container data center, Data Center Blogs, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Technologies, Digital Realty Trust, Green IT, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, Personal Thoughts, Webinar, tagged Data Center Projections, Data Center Video, Michael Manos on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who are not on the Digital Realty Trust email distribution for such things, I recently did a video for them on some reflections of the past and looking ahead with regards to the data center industry, technologies, and such. You can find the video link here if your interested. I for [...]
Live Chiller Side Chat Redux
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, container data center, Data Center Blogs, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Power Capping, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Technologies, Digital Realty Trust, Green IT, Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, Personal Thoughts, Webinar, tagged Chiller Side Chats, Data Center Knowledge, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Seminar, Executive Seminar, Rich Miller on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to take a moment to thank Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge, and all of those folks that called in and asked and submitted questions today in the Live Chiller Side Chat. It was incredible fun for me to get a chance to answer questions directly from everyone. My only regret is that [...]
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 »
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 Center [...]
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 [...]
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 »
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 [...]
The Data Center Blogs I Read
Posted in Data Center Blogs, Data Center Industry, Personal Thoughts, tagged Arthur Cole blog, Burton Group Data Center Strategies, Cisco, Data Center blog, Data Center Blogs, Data center blogs I read, Data Center Design, Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Facilities Pro, Data Center Journal Superfeed, Data Center Junkie, Data Center Knowledge, Data Center Networks blog, Dave Ohara, Digital Cave, Green Data Center Blog, Greg Linden blog, Groves Green IT, James Hamilton, John Rath, Lewis Curtis, Loosebolts blog, MS Data Centers, Nicholas Carr, rough Type, ServerTech blog, Techhermit, The Raised Floor on May 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Every once in a while I like to post up the latest data center blogs and news sources that I follow on a daily basis. I have never really gotten into the “blog reader that looks like email” paradigm, probably because it reminds me too much of work. Like you, I get a ton of [...]
