The Good Data Podcast

We have a great interview. Nabeel Mahmood is our guest. Nabeel was our second ever guest on the show and it's fantastic to have him back on. Nabeel called in from his home in paradise in the great state of Hawaii so at one point you'll hear something that sounds like a loud Klaxon going off. It's actually just a bird. I conducted the interview from the Data Center Dynamics show at the Marriot Marquis in New York. There's a good chance that if you are listening to this podcast you were there. So if you hear some chatter in the background that might be you. I find Nabeel so interesting. Being an entrepreneur he's got a ton of new ventures that he's working on including the one that we mostly focused on today which is a company called querai that's spelled q-u-e-r-a-i , so like investigating things with AI. What they're doing is they're using AI to improve the performance of monitoring software and they're starting specifically with batteries which I think is a great place to start. Often batteries are sort of conceived as just a piece of the UPS system when really their a unique component that has completely separate requirements and specifications from the UPS itself. We also talk about the IDCA, the International Data Center Authority where he sits on the technical standards committee. For those of you who don't know, IDCA is a standards body that is attempting to bridge some of the gaps between what ISO and Uptime and TIA and some other great agencies are doing. I think that just talking with Nabeel they are on their way to helping to unify monitoring and controls, especially by leveraging APIs so that data center software packages talk nicely to each other.

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 for large projects. As always this is a free-flowing discussion. Keith is a proponent of colocation – he's wary of the public cloud but he's all in favor of managed services – just don't call it cloud. Great guy, great conversation. I don't always get to talk with someone who consults on the front lines with end users, so it was great to get insights into the SMB space with Keith. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critical facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

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 to discuss this concept and see what the future might hold for it. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critical facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

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 footprint as a data center operator, this is the place to be! You've made it. Next week will take off from this topic in order to discuss kinetic edge data centers, then the week after we will be talking with Keith Perry principal at DAO Technologies – that was a great interview. After that will be our last episode in the series: energy reclamation. Really looking forward to that one. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critical facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

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 and commissioned, how PUE gets metered and the problems with that, how building automation works and how that ties into data centers, and finally what is on the horizon to make data centers run more efficiently just by improving automation. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critical facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

Today on the podcast we're going to take it down a philosophical route. Be warned. This is a human being speaking extemporaneously for twenty minutes about the responsibility of data center operators. Please - I repeat - you have been warned. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critical facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

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 you're interested in reducing your carbon footprint and not actually about efficiency, then electrical infrastructure is the way to go. If you're all about efficiency, look someplace other than electrical infrastructure. If you don't believe that co2 causes global warming or severe environmental impact, feel free not to listen and then do a google search for the atmosphere of venus, the absorption and re-emittance of 2060nm light by co2, and like… a billion other things. It's complicated so I get that there's room for debate but before you argue, first read the million pages already written and then give me your opinion. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

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 next biggest savings still isn't cooling or power systems or anything to do with the large scale data center systems. Server hardware really has the biggest impact next to software. So today we are going to talk about some hardware trends that I would love to see continue. These are things that can be utilized right now – this very day – in your facility. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

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 for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

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 lot of people haven't really thought of software as being a waste of energy but, have you ever accidentally copied a huge directory from one place to another… or maybe even lost it. That was wasted computation. It was a mistake and it maybe took five minutes to finish copying. All of that time and electricity was wasted and so were your nerves while waiting to see if you nuked your whole hard drive. Well take that feeling and multiply it by ten to the tenth because that is the sort of computation that happens every day across the world and if we could stamp that out just a little bit, we'd save billions of dollars, millions of kilowatt hours and probably thousands of jobs. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free. Articles utilized in this episode: https://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/feature/Overprovisioning-VMs-may-be-safe-but-it-isnt-sound https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/serverless-architectures-learn-more/ https://hackernoon.com/what-is-serverless-architecture-what-are-its-pros-and-cons-cc4b804022e9  

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 wrote the “Data Center Colocation Industry Playbook” which gives a fantastic overview of the colo industry from the perspective of what channel partners and brokers actually need to know about the industry. You can get that on Amazon. Lastly, he's the host of the I Love Data Centers podcast which is a great resource for anyone interested in where the industry is going. Sean was a great guest and we were so lucky to have him on the show. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

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 importance of the latest and greatest hardware, the complexity of backup generation and the hope that we can figure out how to optimize the 3% of earth's electrical production used to power data centers. Thank you to everyone who has listened to the show. Thank you to our wonderful guests. Thanks to everyone who made this podcast possible. We're looking forward to a great 2019. To everyone out there, be safe, have fun and be good.

Todd Finnegan was our guest for this episode. Todd is CEO of ACS Services, a data center and mission critical systems company that focuses on automation, integration and service. Todd has worked in the high-stakes world of data center service for years including many marathon fix-it sessions where he had to white knuckle his way through intensely complicated and hugely consequential repairs for 24 hours plus. You'll hear how his background in high stakes teams like his collegiate rowing career at Princeton helped him to handle the pressures of the data center industry better than just about anybody I've ever met. Todd is the kind of guy who you meet and think, “ok, this guy is going to do the job, whatever it is.” There aren't that many people like him. So happy to have him on the show. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free. https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-finnegan-48242b5/

For today's episode we're talking about a topic that has come up a number of times since our data center call-in show. The question is: “What do I do with my overbuilt data center?” So what happened, what has happened over and over again, is that companies in the nineties and aughts started to move into an all-digital strategy and at the time they thought that the only way to do that was to build their own data centers. Now, when you build a data center you tend to build it with some room to grow, like, I have 200kW of IT equipment today but who knows, ten years from now I might have 500kW and I don't want to have to build another data center. So what companies did was they built the data center to accommodate that 500kW. And for a while that made sense, especially in the nineties. At that time colocation, that is putting equipment in a shared facility like equinix or digital realty, colocation wasn't very popular with a lot of companies. It was much more expensive than it is today and a lot of IT managers and CIOs saw that they would save money by housing their data centers at their own facilities. Now technology got bigger and bigger in the nineties and into the aughts, culminating somewhere around 2008 or 2010 with these large enterprise data centers that held big hunking SANs and acres of servers. But by then virtualization, storage consolidation and cloud storage had all begun to infiltrate. After that moment, data centers, almost in unison, began to shrink, to pull into themselves and get smaller and smaller. So what we had was, instead of 200kW growing into 500kW, we had 200kW shrinking into 150kW. So you had data centers served by infrastructure designed for over three times the current load. And in reality since then there has been even more consolidation and more companies saying to themselves, “I don't want to be in the data center business anymore.” Well, on today's show we are going to investigate that very phenomenon. We are going to look at why data centers shrank and what companies are doing with that extra space, power and cooling. Also, we're going to look at what to do in the future to avoid being stuck with the bill for that entire data center that you're not actually using. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free. We pulled a clip from SP Homerun for our little newsflash. You can find SP Homerun at http://www.sphomerun.com/data-center-sales-and-marketing-blog/why-data-center-liquidations-spread-far-and-wide We also licensed the newsflash music from jobro. You can find the song here: https://freesound.org/people/jobro/sounds/88022/

Today we have Christian Pearson on the program. Christian is a cultural critic and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. And I wanted to have Christian on because I had this realization recently that in popular culture the data center is the new hidden fortress. Like in movies and on TV, there is often this plot point that someone needs to break into a data center to steal some file or something. And I wondered why. Like, why is it that data centers are a symbol of value the way that banks used to be the symbol of value. And that launches us off into some pretty weird territory regarding data centers and science fiction in general. We realized that like half of the Mission Impossible movies have some sort of a scene in a data center. But of course all of the data centers in these movies are heightened and look nothing like reality. Also, if you're worried that this won't have any technical discussion of data centers not to worry, we have an oddly long discussion of data center water filtration so stay tuned for that. Christian was a great guest and I'm excited to share this conversation we had. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.  

This week we are taking a break from the podcast for Thanksgiving. A big thanks to all of our listeners!   Our sponsor is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free. Partial Transcript: Welcome everybody to the good data podcast. We are taking this week off from interviews because of the thanksgiving holiday but we will be returning next week with another episode. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our listeners out there. We are so appreciative of the positive feedback that we have received. Also, I want to thank all of the great guests that we've had on the show. I am so happy to have been given the chance to speak with John Diamond, Nebeel Mahmood, Garrick Sturgill, Owen Osborne… Every one of our guests has been great in their own way and I've loved having those conversations. I also want to set out, in public, one of our big goals for this show, namely putting the “good” in good data. I am really interested in what technology means for real people. Basically, I think this boils down to digital value… like, what is the point of any of this technology if not to make the world better… But also like… let's stop implying that technology always makes the world better. There is so much hype out there in the world regarding the promise of technology. Let's take the decentralization of trust systems we find in crypto. That has yet to truly make a dent in trust systems even after burning through millions of kwh of electricity. Let's take social media. We've seen billions of people able to coordinate guests lists for parties at the same time that social media has enabled genocide. Let's take online learning. There are millions of hours of online instruction that have allowed just about anybody to learn just about anything… like… there are some great courses out there for free. I was going to include like a counterpoint but actually this is probably the best use of the internet that we have regardless of whatever fake educational content there is – it's totally overshadowed by good content. Digital value has always been in the dna of this podcast and I'm planning to lean into it even more in the coming episodes. We're still going to be talking data centers but now that we have our feet under us, I hope that you come along with me to look at what we're actually doing with all that computation. Like, we have these huge buildings that generate more information per hour than was produced in the entire twentieth century… But for what end? I'm so excited to continue this podcast and I'm so thankful for our wonderful listeners. Looking forward to some more great episodes of good data. We'll see you next time on the podcast.

For Today's show Garrick Sturgill will be our guest. Garrick is senior Director at IsoFusion which, if you haven't heard of it, is a colocation, cloud and networking company in the Pacific Northwest. He works in strategy and planning for network buildouts which include last mile fiber to the home which is a business that can use all the competition it can get in my opinion so I'm glad to see them moving into that market. Our conversation goes all over the place from the beginnings of the internet and Arpanet through Garrick's work in the iconic Westin building in Seattle all the way up to the current bleeding edge of networking and low earth orbit satellites. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free. Partial Transcript: DF: welcome everybody to the good data podcast we have a great guest for you today Garrick Sturgill will be on the show Garrick is senior director at ISO fusion which if you haven't heard of it is a colocation cloud and networking company in the Pacific Northwest he works in strategy and planning for network build-outs which includes last-mile fiber-to-the-home which is a business that we can use a lot more competition and in my opinion so I'm glad to see them moving into that market our conversation goes all over the place from the beginnings of the internet and ARPANET through Garrick's work in the iconic Western building in Seattle all the way up to the current bleeding edge of networking and low Earth orbit satellites. Garrick packs a huge amount of knowledge into a very approachable package and I was so happy to have him on the show let's go. [Music] DF: Garrick thank you for coming on the program. GS For sure DF: So I really wanted to talk to you because here's someone who is steeped in every level of Internet history in that you know you've been involved in the Western building and and building up some of the backbone of infrastructure and then moving on to data center operations and things like that so I feel like you've touched every part of the stack and that's what I'm interested in so I really appreciate being able to talk to you GS: just don't ask me any VMWare questions DF: That's fine yeah. It's not really my forte either so I'd just like to start at your background so what was your first job in networking when you first started GS: Oh my first job in networking well my first like official job was probably working for my parents my parents owned a were actually we're a part owner of a computer store up in Seattle called Ballard computers and they sold pcs not necessarily you know no Macs well I shouldn't say that no they they sold I believe they sold Mac but also we have like a pseudo ragtag enterprise division too where you go and you do you do installs my stepdad at the time actually ran the service department for the company so clients would come in and and then naturally they would need other stuff done in their offices and he would send me out on these like calls I mean I didn't go to school for for this but basically just being kind of tossed out into the world like hey go fix this DF: it's usually the best way to learn really is you know it's like oh I don't really know what I'm doing but uh I'm gonna figure everything out and then it'll all kind of come into place GS: I think yeah you know and in those offices at the time you know it wasn't mission-critical you know what I mean like like the network's inside of an office were like you know I mean it was like 10baseT I mean it was nothing people had email but it was still kind of like a novelty. people didn't really companies use it internally but people weren't sending each other like business emails right it least in my experience I mean I wasn't like super deep rooted into it at that point I was more of a inquisitive person funding the wanting to learn and know exactly you know what was going over for the wires you know I don't really care about software back then I'm more I was more into fiber optics and and cat5 at that point. DF: So then you got somehow you you get connected to the Westin building and can you just first of all say what the Westin building is and just describe it quickly GS: Yeah sure the Westin building is is the interconnection point up here in the northwest it's where all the carriers bring in terrestrial fiber into the meet new room and then there's a couple there's one Pacific cable that comes into the building and then there's a couple skinny routes which are like regional undersea fiber cable not really under seat but it runs in Puget Sound and there's a few data centers in there the current cup  

For today's show I will not be having a guest. Instead we're going to have more of a call-in format where we take questions from data center managers and discuss their issues. Because of the nature of data centers and the whole issue with security disclosures, all of the questions have been edited and any identifying information has been removed. If you would like to submit a question for a future call-in show please send them to gooddatapodcast@gmail.com and we will obfuscate all your information in the same way. Also, this is an open forum so if I screw up and you disagree with something that I say, give us that feedback too. I'm always looking to hear about how I can make this show better. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

Paul Bemis is our guest on Good Data. Paul is the president of Applied Math Modeling makers of Coolsim computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. You can find them at http://www.coolsimsoftware.com. They have been making CFD software for data centers for many years and before that Paul was working in the computational modeling industry for much of his career. We get into server design, containment methodologies and we get far into the weeds regarding the ideal gas law. If I have any advice to share with listeners to this podcast it is that they should learn about the Bernoulli Principle and the Ideal Gas Law. It will make your lives so much better. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

Today on the program we have Owen Osborn, CEO of Critter and Guitari. Owen founded the company with Chris Kucinski in 2007 and they have been building avante gard musical instruments ever since. Their creations have been used by Taylor Swift, Bon Iver, the Flaming Lips, Magnetic Fields and OK Go. They have a collaboration with Jack White and Third Man Records to produce custom synths and amplifiers. They're known for allowing just about anybody to create music just by pressing a few buttons because they have devised algorithms that will build music with very little input from the user. I feel very lucky to have sat down with Owen. Also mentioned in the podcast (though I forgot his name) was Ray Li. Ray is one of the founders of the musical collaboration Veserium which you can find at https://www.veserium.com/ Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

Don Finley is our guest on Good Data. He came on the show after we presented together at a conference regarding blockchain. I was very impressed by the depth of his knowledge and the way he thought about technological progress. Don is the owner of Findustries https://fin.dustries.com/. He is a consultant and designer in the realms of machine learning and artificial intelligence as well as blockchain technology. His company codes and consults on many different types of software. You can learn more about Don on Twitter @dfinley. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

A special guest dropped by the studio. Nabeel Mahmood is our guest. Nabeel is a concierge CXO in a number of different tech arenas. He has worked with companies to strengthen their positions, or sometimes to pull them from oblivion. We talked about manufacturing, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, management, corporate growth... This was a great conversation that touched on many tech topics. We didn't really focus on data centers but that's the great thing about data centers... they're related to everything and so everything is related to them. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.

John Diamond joins us on the Good Data Podcast to discuss data center design and management. John got his start in nuclear engineering but quickly moved to cogeneration, which then brought him to data centers. He's got a cryptocurrency mining operation in the pipeline right now and he is working on several different data center projects focusing mostly on Philadelphia and New Jersey. We had a fantastic conversation. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck in what I can only imagine is a hypercolor labyrinth of computational art. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. It's pretty incredible.

Eric Kainer is our guest. Eric has been working in data centers and the telecommunications industry for thirty years. As he says, he's a recovering computer scientist with an entrepreneurial habit. He's a graduate of Wharton and a very intelligent, great person to talk to. Enjoy. Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck in what I can only imagine is a hypercolor labyrinth of computational art. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. It's pretty incredible.

What is The Good Data Podcast? It's a little show about data centers. We get a little technical. We talk business. We get deep. We chill out to algorithmically generated music. Follow us on iTunes or on your favorite podcast app. Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck in what I can only imagine is a hypercolor labyrinth of computational art. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. It's pretty incredible.