I just wanted to send a quick reminder that if you are interested, I am scheduled to give another Live Chiller Side Chat hosted by Rich Miller, editor of DataCenterKnowledge. The last time we did this we got a ton of great participation and lively interaction. Topics ranged between Cloud Computing, infrastructure, data center design, [...]
Archive for the ‘Personal Thoughts’ Category
Live Chiller-Side Chat scheduled for Monday
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Data Center Industry, Digital Realty Trust, Michael Manos, Personal Thoughts, Webinar, tagged Chiller Side Chats, Live Chiller Side Chat, Michael Manos, Rich Miller on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Support UnderArmour / Support our Veterans
Posted in Michael Manos, Personal Thoughts, tagged Data Center Dynamics, London, Underarmor, Wounded Warrior Project on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is quite a bit off topic for the technology posts I usually do but its a subject very important to me personally. I have had the wonderful experience of getting a lot of exposure to the brave men and women coming back from our military actions abroad. Aside from having some very dear friends [...]
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.
I for [...]
Live Chiller Side Chat Redux
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, 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, container data center, 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 [...]
Data Center Dynamics – San Francisco July 17th
Posted in Cloud Computing, Data Center Blogs, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Metrics, Michael Manos, Personal Thoughts, tagged Bill Mazzetti, Chris Crosby, Data Center Dynamics, Green Grid, John Haas, Michael Manos, San Francisco, Tom Furlong on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you interested I will be at Data Center Dynamics in San Francisco on July 17th. I am scheduled to be on a panel moderated by James Staten of Forrester Research at 11:05AM along with Tom Furlong of Facebook, John Haas of Intel, and Bill Mazzetti of Rosendin Electric entitled ‘The Data [...]
Its the Law of Unintended Consequences – Some Clarity around My thoughts on Data Center Regulation
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Blogs, Data Center Industry, Data Center Regulation, Michael Manos, Personal Thoughts, tagged Carbon Reduction Commitment, CRC, Data Center Regulation, data centers, Digital Realty Trust, EU ETS, Greener Computing, Inforworld, Obama Administration, Reagan, Round Table, Steven Chu on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have gotten a lot of response from the post on my thoughts on Data Center regulation. Many of the comments in a response to an Infoworld article focused on the disbelief of regulations particularly targeting data centers. A Greener Computing article felt that because the current administration is very tech-savvy they wouldn’t do anything [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Forecast Cloudy with Continued Enterprise
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Industry, Digital Realty Trust, Personal Thoughts, tagged Chris Crosby, Cloud Compute, Cloud infrastructure, data centers, Digital Realty Trust, FOGs, history of electrical utility, Information Utility, Information-sphere, Jim Smith, Michael Manos, Microsoft, MISTs, Modular Data Center, Pod Architecture, PUE on May 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This post is a portion of my previous post that I broke into two. It more clearly defines where I think the market is evolving to and why companies like Digital Trust Realty will be at the heart of the change in our industry.
The Birth of Utilities and why a Century ago will matter [...]
Starting something new….
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Industry, Digital Realty Trust, Microsoft Data Centers, Personal Thoughts, tagged Chris Crosby, Cloud Compute, Cloud infrastructure, data centers, Digital Realty Trust, FOGs, history of electrical utility, Information Utility, Information-sphere, Jim Smith, Michael Manos, Microsoft, MISTs, Modular Data Center, Pod Architecture, PUE on May 4, 2009 | 7 Comments »
This post was an interesting struggle for me. What should my first post since my departure from Microsoft be about? I have a great amount of topics that I definitely want to talk about regarding the distance and gap from the executive suite, to Information Technology to the data center floor and why there [...]
