Today marked the closing lot of sessions for DataCentres2012 and my keynote session to the attendees. After sitting through a series of product, technology, and industry trend presentations over the last two days I was feeling that my conversation would at the very least be something different. Before I get to that – I wanted [...]
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Sites and Sounds of DataCentre2012: My Presentation, Day 2, and Final Observations
Posted in AOL, AOL Data Centers, AOL MicroDataCenters, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Operations, Cloud Regulation, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Processes, Data Center Regulation, Michael Manos, Microsoft Data Centers, Modular Data Center, tagged BroadGroup, Christian Belady, Data Center Independence Day, Microdata Centers, Quincy Washington, Steven Wallage on May 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Patent Wars may Chill Data Center Innovation
Posted in Data Center Industry, Data Center Processes, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Data Center Technologies, Green IT, Open Source Data Centers, Data Center Patents, Technology Leadership, Cloud Infrastructure, Yahoo, Open Compute Project, tagged Michael Manos, Yahoo, open compute project, facebook, data center innovation, patent wars, OCP, Glasnost on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Yahoo may have just sent a cold chill across the data center industry at large and begun a stifling of data center innovation. In a May 3, 2012 article, Forbes did a quick and dirty analysis on the patent wars between Facebook and Yahoo. It’s a quick read but shines an interesting light on the [...]
Chaos Monkeys, Donkeys and the Innovation of Action
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Technologies, Green IT, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, Personal Thoughts, Uptime Institute, tagged AOL, Chaos Monkey, Data Center, Data Center Donkey, Deutsche Bank, Innovation Award, Innovation of Action, Netflix, Uptime Institute on May 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last week I once again had the pleasure of speaking at the Uptime Institute’s Symposium. As one of the premiere events in the Data Center industry it is definitely one of those conferences that is a must attend to get a view into what’s new, what’s changing, and where we are going as an industry. [...]
I’ve Got Mail….A new Aol.
Posted in AOL, Cloud Services, Data Center Processes, Infrastructure, Michael Manos on January 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
You may have seen the announcement today about my recent decision and move to join the new leadership team at Aol. To some of my friends in the Technorati, and most specifically the Valley, this move probably seems very contrarian. Having built some of the largest cloud infrastructure’s in the world, re-aligning operational processes at [...]
Open Source Data Center Initiative
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Computing, container data center, Data Center Contracts, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Site Selection, Green Grid, Green IT, Modular Data Center, Open Source Data Centers, Uptime Institute, tagged Data Center Pulse, data centers, Green Grid, Linux, Open Source Data Center Initiative, Uptime Institute on March 3, 2010 | 12 Comments »
There are many in the data center industry that have repeatedly called for change in this community of ours. Change in technology, change in priorities, Change for the future. Over the years we have seen those changes come very slowly and while they are starting to move a little faster now, (primarily due to the [...]
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 »
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 | 7 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 quite [...]
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 [...]
