Great Interview today, we have Keith Perry on the show. Keith is the Owner and Managing Member of DAO Technologies LLC. DAO is a technology management and consulting organization that specializes in Free and Open Source Solutions. One of the first things that interested me about Keith is that he has an electrical engineering background – he got an BS from Drexel - which means that he’s got a handle on the full stack of the data center. Then he went into network security & virtual machines and got an MS, also from Drexel. His company focuses on integrating systems from hardware to software ..read more

Today we will be discussing the kinetic edge – that’s a new term to me. It’s the idea of putting small data centers very close to users. You install many or hundreds of these mini data centers and then quickly shifting virtual resources between them. When you do that, each individual one does not need to be particularly robust, but they all must work together to provide reliability. It’s like a wifi mesh concept. We’ve been talking about this concept as a distributed mesh data center for many years but now there is actually some traction in the marketplace and I’ve invited Kevin Farnsworth on ..read more

Today is episode 7 of our green series. Second to last one one, people. If you stuck it out, this is the one that matters most to almost all of you. Man… It was a long journey but worth it in the end. I’m compiling this entire series into an ebook which will be available on Amazon. Look for that in fall of 2019. Brief overview of the green series: We started with software, zoomed out to the server hardware, to electrical systems to the philosophy behind green data centers, to automation and efficiency and here we are today at green cooling. If you’re interested in reducing your carbon footprin ..read more

Today is episode 6 of our green series. Anyone new to this green data center series of podcasts, welcome – to give a brief overview, we started with the software and how well-written software is actually a green imperative contrary to what a lot of people think. Then we zoomed out to the server hardware and electrical systems. Then last week we took a weird interlude to wax philosophical regarding why anybody should care about green. Now we are looking at an extremely important and often overlooked aspect of green data centers – Automation. We’re going to talk about How data centers are built ..read more

Today is episode 4 of our green series. Anyone new to this green data center series of podcasts, welcome – to give a brief overview, we started with the software and how well-written software is actually a green imperative contrary to what a lot of people think. Then we zoomed out to the server hardware, and now we’re zooming out one more level to the electrical systems. Today’s episode is touching on data center electrical infrastructure and how that’s, in a lot of ways, the next most important piece of the green footprint of a data center, or, arguably, the absolute most important piece. If ..read more

Today is episode 3 of our green series. Last week we had a great interview with Daniel Pope about immersion cooling and the week before that we jumped right in with green software. We started there because it really is the most important piece of the movement to save electricity in computation. Poorly optimized software literally wastes billions of dollars and terawatt hours of electricity every year. So we are zooming out just one level, from the software layer to the physical layer. This episode is about green hardware – servers, networks and racks. This may sound crazy but it’s true. The ne ..read more

Daniel Pope is our guest. Daniel is the CEO of Submer which is a company that manufactures immersion cooling systems for servers focused on high density solutions. Daniel got his start in the data center industry when he started hosting email on a server in his bedroom when he was sixteen. He took that business all the way to a major sale and exit in 2009. You can find him on linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpope83/ For more information go to https://submer.com. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities f ..read more

We have another issues episode this week. Today we’re starting our series on green data centers. I’m really excited about this. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I have spent a lot of time optimizing data centers for energy efficiency and I’ve seen a lot of bone headed stuff as well as some incredibly brilliant engineering around data centers and I can’t wait to talk about it. Since this is the first of our series we’ll start with a bit of an overview and then dive right in with the first topic in the series which is… Software. That’s right, green software. I’m guessing that a ..read more

Sean Patrick Tario was our guest this week. Sean is a consultant, professional trainer, analyst and sales professional within the data center industry. He is the CEO of Open Spectrum which is a data center consultation firm that provides training and resources to help demystify this industry and create standard for selling and brokering honest and transparent deals. They’ve negotiated and closed hundreds of data center and hosting contracts with service providers around the world. He’s also the VP of the Cloud Elements Division of Microcorp, a master agency for telecom and cloud services. Sean ..read more

We’re taking the holidays off to focus on family, friends, food, drink, song, dance and fun. I just want to wish all our listeners a happy, healthy holiday. I wish you success, joy, peace and contentment. We will be back with some episodes that I’m really looking forward to. First we will be talking with Sean Patrick Tario – that’s dropping on the 8th of January. Here’s a quick taste of that conversation. And after that we will be dropping the first of several green tech themed episodes. I’m very excited for those. We’ll be talking about immersion cooled servers, energy efficient coding, the ..read more