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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Data Center Processes’ 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 »
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 | 4 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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Live Chiller Side Chat
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Processes, Data Center Regulation, Tier One Research, tagged Chiller Side Chats, Data Center Knowledge, data center webcast, Digital Realty Trust, Hosting Transformation Summit, Las Vegas, Michael Manos, Rich Miller, Tier One Research on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am extremely excited to be participating in a live (webcast) Chiller-Side Chat hosted by none other than Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge. The event is scheduled for Monday, September 14th from noon to 1pm Central Standard Time. You can register for the online event at this link.
I think perhaps the most interesting aspect [...]
Dinner and fireworks
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Regulation, Personal Thoughts, tagged Bernard Geoghegan, Cloud Services, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Round Table, Data Center Tier, Digital Realty Trust, Jim Smith, Michael Manos, PUE on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I attended my first Digital Realty Round Table Discussion in London and it was a fantastic treat and topper for my trip to the UK. For those of you not familiar with these events, its an opportunity to discuss the challenges and issues facing the industry in an informal setting. The events are [...]
DC Curmudgeon and Greenbean: The State of the Industry
Posted in DC Curmudgeon and Greenbean, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, tagged Data Center comic strip, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Humor on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be a comic strip artist. So I thought I would take a crack at it and apply it to our Industry. I have a few more in the works. Hope you enjoy!
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