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 [...]
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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 | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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“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 [...]
At the Intersection of Marketing and Metrics, the traffic lights don’t work.
Posted in Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Regulation, Green Grid, Infrastructure, Modular Data Center, tagged data centers, data centres, datacenter, datacentre, Energy Efficiency, Green Grid, Marketing, Metrics, PUE on July 4, 2009 | 13 Comments »
First let me start out with the fact that the need for datacenter measurement is paramount if this industry is to be able to manage itself effectively. When I give a talk I usually begin by asking the crowd three basic questions
1) How many in attendance are monitoring and tracking electrical usage?
2) How many in [...]
Schneider / Digital New York Speaking Engagement
Posted in Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Technologies, Digital Realty Trust, Infrastructure, Modular Data Center, tagged Chris Crosby, Dan Golding, Data Center, Energy Efficiency, Michael Manos, Schneider, Symposium, Tier One Research on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case anyone wanted to connect – I wanted to highlight that I will be co-presenting the keynote at the Schneider Symposium at the Millenium Broadway hotel in New York City with Chris Crosby of Digital Realty Trust. I will also be giving a talk on practical applications of Energy Efficiency and sitting on [...]
Chiller-Side Chats: The Capacity Problem
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Computing, Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, tagged Critical load, Data Center, Data Center Capacity Planning, impact of virtualization in the data center, nameplate, Non-Critical load, Reserved power, total load, virtualization on June 2, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I recently had a conversation with the CIO of a well respected company who informed me that his “data center people” had completely mismanaged his data center space which was now causing them to look at having to lease additional capacity or more aggressively pursue virtualization to solve the problem. Furthermore he was powerless to [...]
Chiller-Side Chats: When Worlds Collide
Posted in Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Infrastructure, tagged AC versus DC, Chiller Side Chats, Data center best practices, Data Center Business Decisions, Data Center Challenges, Data Center decisions, Data Center issues, Data Center Management, DATA Center power, IT and Data Centers on May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
To most outsiders the datacenter industry may seem to be quite parochial. A niche blend at the intersection of building and IT technologies. Even to many senior business managers both of these areas in and of themselves are not necessarily considered business critical. As such, little if any time is spent concentrating on the issues [...]
