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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Archive for the ‘Personal Thoughts’ 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 »
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 Digital Realty Trust, data centers, Data Center Regulation, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Round Table, CRC, EU ETS, Obama Administration, Steven Chu, Greener Computing, Inforworld, Reagan 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 [...]
The Data Center Blogs I Read
Posted in Data Center Blogs, Data Center Industry, Personal Thoughts, tagged Arthur Cole blog, Burton Group Data Center Strategies, Cisco, Data Center blog, Data Center Blogs, Data center blogs I read, Data Center Design, Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Facilities Pro, Data Center Journal Superfeed, Data Center Junkie, Data Center Knowledge, Data Center Networks blog, Dave Ohara, Digital Cave, Green Data Center Blog, Greg Linden blog, Groves Green IT, James Hamilton, John Rath, Lewis Curtis, Loosebolts blog, MS Data Centers, Nicholas Carr, rough Type, ServerTech blog, Techhermit, The Raised Floor on May 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Every once in a while I like to post up the latest data center blogs and news sources that I follow on a daily basis. I have never really gotten into the “blog reader that looks like email” paradigm, probably because it reminds me too much of work. Like you, I get a ton of [...]
Farmers, so long
Posted in Cloud Computing, Data Center Industry, Microsoft Data Centers, Personal Thoughts, tagged Digital Realty Trust, Michael Manos, Microsoft, Microsoft Data Center Departure, Microsoft Data Centers, Quincy on April 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This post represents a bittersweet moment in my career. As you have no doubt heard I am moving on from Microsoft to take on an exciting senior role at Digital Realty Trust. I will save the specifics on my new role and its mission for a future post on my personal Loosebolts blog. But [...]
