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.
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Archive for the ‘Data Center Industry’ Category
A look back and a look forward…
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, 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, container data center, tagged Data Center Projections, Data Center Video, Michael Manos on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Panel at Data Center Dynamics – London
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Technologies, Green IT, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, container data center, tagged Cloud Computing, Cloud infrastructure, Data Center Carbon, Data Center Design, Data Center Dynamics, Lex Coors, Liam Newcombe, London, Michael Manos on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On November 10th and 11th I will be speaking on two panels at the Data Center Dynamics event in London. The theme for the two day event is Carbon: Risk or Opportunity. In the morning, On Day One, I am speaking in a panel entitled The Data Center Efficiency Schism …New Realities in Design with [...]
Opinion Polls and the End of Times
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Industry, Data Center Technologies, Michael Manos, container data center, tagged Apple, Data Center Industry, dream team, Olivier Sanche, poll, Web Hosting Industry Review on October 9, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I recently had an interesting e-mail exchange with Olivier Sanche the chief DC architect at Apple. As you probably know this is a very small industry and Olivier and I have enjoyed a long professional working relationship. He remarked that we are approaching the end of times, as we were both nominated for a Data [...]
Data Center Junk Science: Thermal Shock \ Cooling Shock
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Contracts, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Technologies, tagged ASHRAE, Cooling Shock, Data Center Contracts, Data Center Junk Science, Thermal Shock on October 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I recently performed an interesting exercise where I reviewed typical co-location/hosting/ data center contracts from a variety of firms around the world. If you ever have a few long plane rides to take and would like an incredible amount of boring legalese documents to review, I still wouldn’t recommend it.
I did learn [...]
A Well Deserved Congratulations to Microsoft Dublin DC Launch
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Industry, Green IT, Microsoft Data Centers, Modular Data Center, container data center, tagged Chiller-less data center, Dublin, Limerick, Microsoft, Microsoft Data Center on September 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today Microsoft announced the launch of their premier flagship data center facility in Dublin, Ireland. This is a huge achievement in many ways and from many angles. While there are those who will try and compare this facility to other ‘Chiller-less’ facilities, I can assure you this facility is unique in so many ways. But [...]
Modular Evolution, Uptime Resolution, and Software Revolution
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Software, Data Center Technologies, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Power of Software, tagged Application Geo-diversity, Application inventory, Data Center Tier, Microsoft, Oracle, RFI, RFP, SAP, Uptime Institute on September 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Its a very little known fact but software developers are costing enterprises millions of dollars and I don’t think in many cases either party realizes it. I am not referring to the actual cost of purchase for the programs and applications or even the resulting support costs. Those are easily calculated and can be hard [...]
Speaking on Container Solutions and Applications at Interop New York
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Technologies, Green IT, Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, container data center, tagged Containers, Data Center, Green Data Center, Green IT, Interop on September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have been invited to speak and chair a panel at Interop, New York (November 16-20, 2009) to give a talk exploring the hype and reality surrounding Data Center based containers and Green IT in general.
The goal of the panel discussion will help data center managers evaluate and approach containers by understanding their [...]
More Chiller Side Chat Redux….
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Computing, Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Technologies, Digital Realty Trust, Michael Manos, Webinar, tagged Chiller Side Chats, Chris Crosby, Data center best practices, Data Center Business Decisions, Data Center Engineering on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been getting continued feedback on the Chiller Side Chat that we did live on Monday, September 14th. I wanted to take a quick moment and discuss one of the recurring themes of emails I have been receiving on the topic of data center site selection and the decisions that result at the intersection [...]
Miss the “Live” Chiller Side Chat? Hear it here!
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Services, Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Industry, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Technologies, Digital Realty Trust, Green IT, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, container data center, tagged Chiller Side Chats, Live Chiller Side Chat, Michael Manos on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The folks who were recording the “Live” Chiller Side Chat have sent me a link to the recording. If you were not able to make the event live, but are still interested in hearing how it went feel free to have a listen at the following link:
LIVE CHILLER SIDE CHAT
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