This week my teams have descended upon the Uptime Institute Symposium in Santa Clara. The moment is extremely bittersweet for me as this is the first Symposium in quite sometime I have been unable to attend. With my responsibilities expanding at AOL beginning this week there was simply too much going on for me to [...]
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Uptime, Cowgirls, and Success in California
Posted in Data Center Industry, Personal Thoughts, Cloud Computing, Data Center Metrics, Uptime Institute, Green IT, Cloud Operations, AOL, AOL Data Centers, Online Operations, tagged Uptime Institute, AOL, AOL Cloud, Symposium 2012, Aaron Lake, Lee Ann Macerelli, Rachel Paiva, Julie Edwards, Christy Abramson on May 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
AOL Power Hog Award
Posted in AOL, AOL Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Cloud Operations, Data Center Fun, Green IT, Uptime Institute, tagged AOL Cloud, AOL Data Center, AOL Power Hog Award, Power Hog, Server Round Up Award, Symposium 2012, Uptime Institute on March 29, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I have received a ton of emails after my post about our Uptime Institute Server Round Up Award asking me about our “Power Hog” Award. In case you missed it, part of our internal analysis was going through and identifying inefficient servers and systems and we motivated the owners of those systems to migrate their [...]
Attacking the Cruft
Posted in AOL, AOL Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Cloud Operations, Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Fun, Data Center Metrics, Green IT, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Uptime Institute, tagged AOL, AOL Data Center, Cruft, Data center Cruft, Michael Manos, Symposium 2012, Uptime Institute on March 28, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Today the Uptime Institute announced that AOL won the Server Roundup Award. The achievement has gotten some press already (At Computerworld, PCWorld, and related sites) and I cannot begin to tell you how proud I am of my teams. One of the more personal transitions and journeys I have made since my experience scaling 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. [...]
Preparing for the Cloud: A Data Center and Operations Survival Guide
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Operations, Cloud Services, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Technologies, Michael Manos, Uptime Institute, tagged 'Cloud Ready', Michael Manos, Preparing for the Cloud, Symposium 2011, Uptime Institute on February 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This May, I once again have the distinct honor of presenting at the Uptime Institute’s Symposium. This year it will be held in Santa Clara, CA from May 9 through the 12th. This year my primary topic is entitled ‘Preparing for the Cloud: A Data Center Survival Guide.’ I am really looking forward to this [...]
C02K Doubter? Watch the Presidential address today
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Cloud Computing, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Site Selection, Green IT, Michael Manos, Uptime Institute, tagged CO2K, Data Center Business Decisions, Data Center Carbon, Data Center CO2, Michael Manos, Uptime Institute, Waxman-Markey bill on June 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Are you a Data Center professional who doubts that Carbon legislation is going to happen or that this initiative will never get off the ground? This afternoon President Obama plans to outline his intention to assess a cost for Carbon consumption at a conference highlighting his economic accomplishments to date. The backdrop of this of [...]
Reflections on Uptime Symposium 2010 in New York
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Cloud Computing, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Technologies, Michael Manos, Modular Data Center, Personal Thoughts, Tier One Research, Uptime Institute, tagged Andrew Fanara, attendance, CO2K, container data center, Containers, Dan Costello, Dr. Bob Sullivan, Keynote Speaker, New York, observations, Sean Farney, Symposium 2010, Uptime Institute on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week I had the honor to be a keynote Speaker at the Uptime Institute’s Symposium event in New York City. I also participated in some industry panels which is always tons of fun. However, as a keynote at the first Symposium a few years back it was an interesting experience to come back and [...]
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 [...]
In disappointment, there is opportunity. . .
Posted in Cloud Computing, Data Center Conferences, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Green Grid, Microsoft Data Centers, Uptime Institute, tagged Data Center Threat, Google PUE, Green Grid, Ken Brill, Microsoft Data Center, Microsoft Data Center Experience, Microsoft PUE, Uptime Dallas, Uptime Institute on November 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I was personally greatly disappointed with the news coming out of last week that the Uptime Institute had branded Microsoft and Google as the enemy to traditional data center operators. To be truthful, I did not give the reports much credit especially given our long and successful relationship with that organization. However, when our representatives [...]
