I have received a ton of emails after my post about our Uptime Institute Server Round Up Award asking me about our “Power Hog” Award. In case you missed it, part of our internal analysis was going through and identifying inefficient servers and systems and we motivated the owners of those systems to migrate their [...]
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AOL Power Hog Award
Posted in AOL, AOL Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Cloud Operations, Data Center Fun, Green IT, Uptime Institute, tagged AOL Cloud, AOL Data Center, AOL Power Hog Award, Power Hog, Server Round Up Award, Symposium 2012, Uptime Institute on March 29, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Attacking the Cruft
Posted in AOL, AOL Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Cloud Operations, Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Fun, Data Center Metrics, Green IT, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Uptime Institute, tagged AOL, AOL Data Center, Cruft, Data center Cruft, Michael Manos, Symposium 2012, Uptime Institute on March 28, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Today the Uptime Institute announced that AOL won the Server Roundup Award. The achievement has gotten some press already (At Computerworld, PCWorld, and related sites) and I cannot begin to tell you how proud I am of my teams. One of the more personal transitions and journeys I have made since my experience scaling the [...]
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 [...]
Must Have Swag…..
Posted in container data center, Data Center Fun, Modular Data Center, tagged Data Center marketing, data center swag, Digital Realty Trust, lego, lego data center, Loosebolts blog, Modular Data Center on September 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I try not to post much business related stuff (ala Digital Realty Trust) on Loosebolts as its my own place to rant and rave. To be clear-none of the things I say on here represent the views of the company what-so-ever. But sometimes, there are a things that come along that really make me smile [...]
