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, [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
“We Can’t Afford to measure PUE”
Posted in Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Power Capping, Data Center Processes, Data Center Technologies, Infrastructure, tagged branch circuit monitoring, Green Data Center, power measurement, power metering, PUE on September 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the more interesting phenomena that I experience as I travel and talk with customers and industry peers is that there is a significant number of folks out there with the belief that they cannot measure PUE because they cannot afford or lack the funding for the type of equipment and systems needed to [...]
Chiller-Side Chats : Is Power Capping Ready for PrimeTime?
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Power Capping, Data Center Technologies, Personal Thoughts, tagged Data center best practices, Data Center Business Decisions, Data Center Capacity Planning, data center truth, eye on blades, hp, power capping, prime time, server power capping on June 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I was very pleased at the great many responses to my data center capacity planning chat. They came in both public and private notes with more than a healthy population of those centered around my comments on power capping and their potential disagreement on why I don’t think the technology/applications/functionality is 100% there yet. So [...]
