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La ville de Marseille est un laboratoire pour l'acceptabilité des datacenters, entre les ambitions numériques de la seconde ville de France, le besoin de services de proximité, le hub mondial de câbles sous-marins, et la présence controversée de Digital Realty qui focalise les oppositions politiques, le datacenter Phocea DC a su se faire accepter et forge sa place au sein de l'écosystème numérique de la ville. Damien Desanti, le fondateur de Phocea DC, évoque son expérience dans l'accessibilité des datacenters pour l'édition 2025 de la Journée du datacenter.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Marseille, deuxième plus grande ville de France... et plus étonnement, sixième hub internet mondial, soit l'un des principaux carrefours du trafic internet. La cité phocéenne vient même de dépasser Hong Kong. Conséquence : les centres de stockage de données numériques (data centers, ou centres de données) se multiplient. L'entreprise américaine Digital Reality a pour projet de s'étendre encore en plein cœur de la ville en y construisant son cinquième centre de données. Mais elle fait face à l'inquiétude des riverains qui craignent des répercussions pour leur environnement. Ils sont une trentaine à se réunir devant le futur cinquième data center marseillais. Jean-Pierre Lapebie, président de l'association de riverains Cap au nord, confie : « Ces data centers, en eux-mêmes, consomment énormément d'énergie électrique. Donc ça pose un problème. D'autant plus que ces quartiers manquent d'espaces verts. Il y a une population qui est en souffrance avec une précarité énorme. Et cette population, on la met en dehors de toute discussion ou initiative sur leurs projets collectifs de vie. »Installé depuis dix ans à Marseille, Digital Realty, l'entreprise à l'initiative des data centers marseillais, a accepté de nous recevoir pour découvrir ces centres de l'intérieur et comprendre leur impact environnemental. « Voilà un exemple de salle. Vous voyez un certain nombre d'équipements », commente Fabrice Coquio, PDG de Digital Reality, en déambulant dans une salle au milieu de tours électroniques connectées où transitent des datas.« Nous colocalisons les investissements informatiques de nos clients pour pouvoir faire en sorte que, demain ou ce soir, vous passez une commande en ligne, vous consultez votre compte bancaire, vous renouvelez votre permis en ligne ou tout simplement, vous envoyez un email à votre grand-mère. » Ces centres de data stockent donc les données d'entreprises. Autre fonction : les mettre en relation. Et ça se passe dans une salle bien moins bruyante. « Et là, vous voyez, sur ces tiroirs à haute densité, on va connecter 24 fois monsieur A avec monsieur B, monsieur C avec monsieur D et ainsi de suite », poursuit le PDG en montrant les outils informatiques.« C'est légitime d'avoir des interrogations »Des infrastructures qui prennent de la place et nécessitent aussi d'être refroidies. Sur le toit du bâtiment, d'énormes tuyaux et de grosses cuves font le travail : « On est sur la terrasse technique du data center. Vous avez tous ces systèmes de groupes froids. C'est un peu comme le moteur que vous avez derrière votre réfrigérateur à la maison. Sauf qu'ils sont un peu plus gros. »Aux inquiétudes des habitants, Fabrique Coquio répond : « C'est légitime d'avoir des interrogations, parce qu'à partir du moment où vous avez des machines informatiques, ça consomme de l'énergie. » Mais il insiste, le projet de nouveau centre de stockage est conforme, notamment au code de l'environnement : « Il faut savoir qu'en France, on ne peut pas faire n'importe quoi, heureusement. De toute façon, vous ne pouvez pas construire un data center si vous n'avez pas d'autorisation. Et après, vous avez des audits, pour vérifier la conformité de votre service. Ce qui est complètement normal. »Pour l'instant, rien n'entrave la tenue du projet. Ce cinquième site devrait voir le jour d'ici à 2026.À lire aussiMarseille, le port des data centers

Send us a textIn this special episode of the Inside Data Centre Podcast, recorded live at Kickstart 2025, Andy Davis and Pieter Schaap are joined by two industry leaders:Frank de Fremery, Data Center Consultant.Lex Coors, Chief Data Center Technology and Engineering Officer, Digital Realty.Together, they explore the key factors shaping the European data centre landscape and discuss some of the biggest challenges and opportunities in the industry.Key Topics:Where to Build Next in EMEA – The hottest locations for future developmentCollaboration in the Supply Chain – How working together can drive efficiency and innovationPerception & Communication – Changing how the industry is viewed and improving public awarenessAttracting New Talent – Strategies for bringing fresh talent into the data centre sectorJoin us for an insightful discussion on the future of data centres in Europe and beyond.This episode is brought to you in partnership with Soben, Global Construction Consultants. Soben - Global Construction ConsultantsSupport the showThe Inside Data Centre Podcast is recorded in partnership with DataX Connect, a specialist data centre recruitment company based in the UK. They operate on a global scale to place passionate individuals at the heart of leading data centre companies. To learn more about Andy Davis and the rest of the DataX team, click here: DataX Connect

In this episode of FP&A Tomorrow, host Paul Barnhurst (aka the FP&A Guy) welcomes Glenn Snyder, a seasoned FP&A leader with over 20 years of experience. Glenn shares insights on financial planning and analysis, leadership strategies, and building effective business partnerships. He discusses the keys to driving business impact, managing teams, and navigating career growth in FP&A.Glenn Snyder is a Senior Director at Riverrun Consulting, specializing in interim financial leadership. With a career spanning financial services, fintech, SaaS, private equity, and more, he has held leadership roles at Franklin Templeton, Visa, Charles Schwab, and Digital Realty. Glenn is also an author, educator, and board member, passionate about mentoring finance professionals and improving FP&A effectiveness.Expect to Learn:The key elements of great FP&A and how it drives executive decisionsHow to balance company goals with employee career developmentStrategies for building strong business partnerships in FP&AThe role of automation and efficiency in FP&A reporting and analysisHow to successfully transition into a new leadership roleOvercoming resistance from business leaders and earning trust in financeThe importance of storytelling and data visualization in financial reportingHere are a few relevant quotes from the episode:“The best leaders give credit to their teams and create opportunities for them to shine.” - Glenn SnyderYour career growth is your responsibility. Stay curious, stay connected, and keep learning.” - Glenn Snyder“You don't have to be the smartest person in the room, but you must be the most adaptable.” - Glenn SnyderIn this episode, Glenn Snyder shared his expertise on what makes FP&A impactful, how to lead finance teams, and the importance of strong business partnerships. He emphasized that great FP&A professionals don't just report numbers, they drive decisions, build trust, and continuously improve processes. Being proactive, investing in relationships, and focusing on delivering insights, not just reports, are key. Success in FP&A comes from adapting, influencing, and always adding value.Operator's Guild:Operators Guild is where the best CEOs, CFOs, VPs of finance, and BizOps leaders in the business connect, network, and grow together. Built by operators for operators, this members-only community is home to more than 1000 of the most elite high-growth operators in the world. Experience connection and knowledge share with professionals who understand you like no one else does. Learn more and apply at https://bit.ly/3F6sghSFollow FP&A Tomorrow:Newsletter - Subscribe on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=6957679529595162624 Follow Glenn:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenntsnyder/Follow Paul: Website - https://www.thefpandaguy.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thefpandaguyFP&A Community Hub: Tired of searching for answers and sifting through sales pitches? The FP&A Hub is your go-to online community where finance professionals...

Aujourd'hui, Rémi Andreassian, porte-parole et directeur marketing de Digital Realty, était l'invité dans les Grandes gueules. Il est revenu sur cette question : Intelligence artificielle, futur fleuron français ?

Pháp không muốn bị thụt lùi so với Mỹ và Trung Quốc trong cuộc đua Trí tuệ Nhân tạo - AI. Tuần lễ và Thượng đỉnh Hành động về AI - đồng tổ chức với Ấn Độ - ở Paris là cơ hội để Pháp bảo vệ chủ quyền kỹ thuật số, đặc biệt với những thông báo quan trọng của tổng thống Emmanuel Macron : 109 tỉ euro đầu tư vào AI tại Pháp, quảng bá "sản phẩm Pháp" - chatbot Le Chat của Mistral AI, hiện trở thành đối tác của nhiều tập đoàn lớn. Trong ba ngày sau khi được tổng thống Pháp quảng bá trong buổi trả lời phỏng vấn với đài France 2 (ngày 09/02), Le Chat trở thành ứng dụng được tải nhiều nhất trên Apple Store. Ứng dụng Pháp, cạnh tranh với ChatGPT của Mỹ và DeepSeek của Trung Quốc, đã tóm tắt buổi phỏng vấn của tổng thống Macron theo yêu cầu của RFI Tiếng Việt :« Trả lời phỏng vấn đài France 2, tổng thống Emmanuel Macron thông báo khoản đầu tư lớn 109 tỉ euro trong lĩnh vực AI tại Pháp. Quỹ này được hình thành từ nhiều nguồn đóng góp khác nhau, trong đó có Ả Rập Xê Út, Canada, nhiều doanh nghiệp Pháp và nước ngoài.Tổng thống Macron cũng nhấn mạnh tầm quan trọng của việc quản lý AI toàn cầu, nói rằng mọi nội dung do phần mềm AI tạo ra phải được xác định rõ ràng. Ông kêu gọi một chiến lược AI đầy tham vọng, ở cả cấp độ Pháp và châu Âu, với các mục tiêu xã hội, kinh tế và ngoại giao.Tổng thống cũng nhấn mạnh đến chatbot “Le Chat”, do công ty khởi nghiệp Mistral AI của Pháp phát triển, đồng thời kêu gọi người dân Pháp tải xuống. Ứng dụng này được giới thiệu là đối thủ cạnh tranh của ChatGPT.Cuối cùng, ông Macron bày tỏ sự lạc quan về tác động của AI đối với việc làm, tin rằng sự phát triển của công nghệ sẽ giải phóng thời gian bằng cách phân công các nhiệm vụ lặp đi lặp lại, giúp "đưa yếu tố con người trở lại" trong các mối quan hệ ».Điểm đặc biệt là Le Chat dẫn ngay các nguồn được sử dụng ngay dưới câu trả lời để người sử dụng dễ kiểm chứng. Và ứng dụng Le Chat khẳng định trả lời được bằng tiếng Việt và sử dụng các nguồn tiếng Việt.Pháp “chán” phải chạy theo Mỹ và Trung QuốcKhoản đầu tư 109 tỉ euro trong vòng 5 năm tới được tổng thống Macron thông báo nhằm mục đích giúp Pháp duy trì « cuộc đua về Trí tuệ Nhân tạo », « sáng tạo những giải pháp, những công nghệ riêng, nếu không, sẽ bị phụ thuộc vào những nước khác » :« Chúng ta (Pháp và châu Âu) có những lợi thế tuyệt vời. Phải nói là tất cả các nước đều bị trễ so với Hoa Kỳ và Trung Quốc. Do đó, về đào tạo, chúng ta có những quan hệ đối tác, như với Ấn Độ, một cường quốc về đào tạo Trí tuệ Nhân tạo. Chúng ta đã đào tạo 40.000 thanh niên trong lĩnh vực Trí tuệ Nhân tạo nhưng con số này sẽ tăng lên thành 100.000 người. Chúng ta cũng có những nhà khoa học về dữ liệu, những nhà toán học. Pháp có rất nhiều tài năng. Và đó là một sức mạnh to lớn. Nhưng Pháp cũng bị thụt lùi về các trung tâm dữ liệu, có nghĩa là khả năng tính toán. Để làm được việc này, cần phải có những siêu máy tính, thu thập khối lượng dữ liệu lớn. Và cần khẩn trương thực hiện. Do đó, tôi muốn thông báo tối nay rằng châu Âu và Pháp sẽ thúc đẩy tiến trình này. Pháp thông báo tại Thượng đỉnh Hành động về Trí tuệ Nhân tạo 109 tỉ euro đầu tư vào lĩnh vực AI trong những năm tới. Đây là chuyện chưa từng có. Khoản đầu tư này tương xứng với những thông báo của Mỹ về quỹ Stargate với 500 tỉ đô la đầu tư. Trong số các nhà đầu tư, Các Tiểu Vương Quốc Ả Rập Thống Nhất đầu tư vào một trung tâm dữ liệu lớn ở Pháp. Ngoài ra còn có những quỹ đầu tư lớn của Mỹ, Canada cùng với rất nhiều doanh nghiệp Pháp ». Đọc thêm : AI : Bài toán khó để Pháp và Liên Âu không bị loại khỏi bàn cờ quốc tế về Trí tuệ Nhân tạoCụ thể, theo trang Les Echos, Quỹ MGX của Các Tiểu Vương Quốc Ả Rập Thống Nhất đầu tư 50 tỉ euro xây dựng một trung dữ liệu lớn có công suất 1 GW. Trên tổng số 20 tỉ euro đầu tư vào AI tại Pháp, quỹ đầu tư Canada Brookfieal dành 15 tỉ euro để xây dựng nhiều trung tâm dữ liệu, trong đó có một trung tâm có công suất 1 GW ở Cambrai, nơi trở thành phòng thí nghiệm ở miền bắc Pháp. Theo điện Elysée, « những dự án này cho thấy lực hấp dẫn của Pháp, cũng như chất lượng mạng lưới điện và đường truyền internet, đủ lớn và vững chắc để tiếp nhận tất cả những nhà máy về AI trong tương lai ».Ngoài ra, rất nhiều dự án xây dựng mới liên quan đến AI cũng được các quỹ đầu tư Fluidstack của Anh, Equinix, Digital Realty và Prologis của Mỹ, Evroc của Thụy Điển, Sesterce của Pháp lần lượt thông báo tại Thượng đỉnh Hành động về AI. Công ty khởi nghiệp Mistral AI, chủ sở hữu Le Chat, cũng thông báo « đầu tư vài tỉ euro » vào một trung tâm dữ liệu lớn, được đặt tại Saclay, khu đại học nổi tiếng ở tỉnh Essonne, ngoại ô Paris.Le Chat - cạnh tranh với DeepSeek và ChatGPT Phần mềm Le Chat là sản phẩm của Mistral AI, start-up được cho là còn non trẻ so với những đối thủ. Arthur Mensch, từng làm việc cho Google và DeepMind và hai cộng sự Guillaume Lample và Timothée Lacroix, từng làm việc cho Meta, thành lập Mistral AI tháng 04/2023 và đã kêu gọi được đầu tư hơn 6 tỉ euro. Bộ trưởng Kinh Tế Éric Lombard không ngần ngại quảng bá cho « sản phẩm Pháp » là đã chuẩn bị một buổi phỏng vấn nhờ ứng dụng Le Chat. Cách thực hiện giống như « kiểu đóng vai », theo giải thích của nhà sáng lập Arthur Mensch khi trả lời phỏng vấn đài France 2 ngày 10/02 :« Le Chat có thể tìm những câu hỏi ở đâu ư ? Phần mềm Le Chat thông minh, nên cô đọng được kiến ​​thức nhân loại. Le Chat biết y học là gì, lịch sử là gì và truyền thông là gì. Le Chat cũng biết tất cả các ngôn ngữ nên có thể dùng ứng dụng này để dịch mọi thứ. Và khi bạn đưa ra chỉ dẫn, chẳng hạn như tôi phải chuẩn bị cho một cuộc phỏng vấn, Le Chat có thể giải thích chuẩn bị một cuộc phỏng vấn như thế nào, hình dung ra những câu hỏi và giúp chuẩn bị. Đó là một ví dụ có có thể truyền tải nhanh trong giáo dục. Ví dụ một sinh viên ngành toán hay triết học có thể nhờ Le Chat đặt câu hỏi ôn tập và về lâu dài là để củng cố kiến thức của mình. Đúng là có trường hợp gian lận, nhờ Le Chat làm hộ bài tập. Nhưng cần phải đặt câu hỏi là tại sao phải làm bài tập ? Đó là để học hỏi điều gì đó. Cho nên cần phải coi trí tuệ nhân tạo mà Le Chat cung cấp là một cách học nhanh hơn, không phải để gian lận. Cần phải giữ đúng mục đích chính của việc làm bài tập, chứ không đề cao vào thành phẩm cuối cùng ». Đọc thêm : Trí tuệ Nhân tạo và những rủi ro khó có thể kiểm soátPháp cần tập thể để cạnh tranh Trước khi diễn ra Thượng đỉnh Hành động về Trí tuệ Nhân tạo, Pháp cũng như Liên Hiệp Châu Âu hứng cú sốc DeepSeek. Ông Bruno Bonnell, tổng thư ký France 2030 - kế hoạch tài chính của Pháp về khả năng cạnh tranh - thừa nhận : « DeepSeek giống như lời cảnh tỉnh mà chúng ta cần ». Mô hình AI tạo sinh từ Trung Quốc được quảng bá ít tốn kém hơn rất nhiều nhưng hiệu quả hoàn toàn không kém nếu so sánh với những khoản tiền khổng lồ được đổ vào các tập đoàn AI của Mỹ.Arthur Mensch, nhà đồng sáng lập công ty Mistral AI, giải thích Le Chat, được khởi động cùng lúc với DeepSeek của Trung Quốc, có lợi thế về chi phí thấp hơn so với những ứng dụng của Mỹ. Điều này cho thấy Pháp cũng như châu Âu có điều kiện tham gia cuộc đua AI :« Tôi nghĩ châu Âu có vai trò thực sự, đặc biệt là vì có nguồn nhân tài đặc biệt đáng chú ý, điều này cho phép chúng ta hiệu quả hơn nhiều so với các đối thủ cạnh tranh ở Mỹ trong việc xây dựng công nghệ, với chi phí ít hơn. Vì thế phải vun đắp lợi thế này và cũng tương tự như vậy trong môi trường AI. Quá trình này sẽ được xây dựng nhanh hơn nếu các công ty châu Âu nhận ra rằng họ có lợi khi hợp tác với các doanh nghiệp châu Âu khác để đẩy nhanh lộ trình Trí tuệ Nhân tạo của mình. Và vì thế châu Âu thực sự có vai trò quan trọng với phần còn lại của thế giới. Ví dụ, chúng tôi đã mở chi nhánh tại Singapore và có những khách hàng đầu tiên ở đó. Có thể thấy là có một cơ hội thực sự, không phải của Mỹ và không phải của Trung Quốc ». Đọc thêm : Trí tuệ Nhân tạo : Hủy hoại hay thân thiện với môi trường ?Dù được cho là phong phú nhưng hệ sinh thái công nghệ châu Âu vẫn còn khiêm tốn so với những gã khổng lồ Trung Quốc và Mỹ. Theo Les Echos, chỉ cần nhìn vào những định giá toàn cầu lớn nhất để thấy châu Âu vắng bóng như thế nào. Pháp, nơi có khoảng 750 start-up về AI với 35.000 người làm việc trong lĩnh vực này, không giấu tham vọng muốn đứng đầu Liên Âu về AI. Tuy nhiên, khi trả lời RFI ngày 10/02, bà Anne Bouverot, đặc phái viên của tổng thống Pháp về Thượng đỉnh Hành động về Trí tuệ Nhân tạo, lưu ý đến tinh thần « tập thể » :« Có những chuyện người ta không thể làm một mình. Dĩ nhiên Pháp có tham vọng đứng đầu về Trí tuệ Nhân tạo và Pháp có nhiều lợi thế. Người ta nói đến Mistral hoặc các công ty khởi nghiệp như Hugging Face, poolside, Pigment… có tầm quan trọng trong lĩnh vực AI, cũng như những tài năng, những nhà nghiên cứu, kĩ sư một cách rất ấn tượng. Chúng ta có vị thế tốt về Trí tuệ Nhân tạo. Nhưng khi nhìn vào những khoản đầu tư cần thiết để phát triển AI thì có rất nhiều việc phải làm theo tập thể, ở tầm mức châu Âu ».Tổng thống Macron muốn Pháp và Liên Hiệp Châu Âu tiến nhanh theo « mô hình tái thiết nhà thờ Đức Bà Paris » trong 5 năm, huy động mọi nguồn lực để bù khoảng thời gian chậm trễ so với Mỹ và Trung Quốc. Theo chuyên gia Charleyne Biondi, Viện Montaigne, châu Âu hiện chỉ chiếm 18% trung tâm dữ liệu trên thế giới, chưa đầy 5% trong số này là thuộc về các doanh nghiệp châu Âu, phần còn lại đều thuộc về các đại tập đoàn Mỹ như AWS, Google và Microsoft Azure. Ngày 11/02, chủ tịch Ủy Ban Châu Âu Ursula von der Leyen công bố một « chiến lược châu Âu về AI » với ngân sách 200 tỉ euro, mục đích là để « tăng tốc », « đơn giản hóa quy định » và « tăng cường thị trường chung duy nhất », cùng với nhiều biện pháp khác.

Recorded last December, for this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show Podcast, DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent spoke with Vantage Data Centers' North American President Dana Adams, and Katilin Monaghan, Vantage Data Centers' North American Public Policy Director. As president of Vantage Data Centers' North America business, Dana Adams oversees market development, sales, construction and operations across the United States and Canada. With nearly 18 years of experience in the data center sector, Adams has a track record of successfully leading high-growth companies and diverse teams at scale. Prior to joining Vantage, Adams was the Chief Operating Officer for AirTrunk, the hyperscale data center giant serving the Asia-Pacific region. She was responsible for scaling operations, service delivery and customer success from one to five countries and established other critical business capabilities, including award-winning people, culture and sustainability programs, as the company grew from $3 to $10 billion. Earlier in her career, Adams served as vice president and general manager at Iron Mountain where she helped drive nearly $2 billion in growth through global acquisitions and development projects. In addition, she held several leadership positions at Digital Realty, including vice president of portfolio management, where she oversaw $3 billion in data center assets. Considered to be one of the most influential female executives in the industry, Adams was recognized by Data Economy on its power women list in 2019. She was a finalist in the 2020 and 2022 PTC awards as an outstanding female executive, an Infrastructure Masons (IM) 2022 award recipient and was recently featured by InterGlobix Magazine as an Inspiring Woman in Leadership. Adams earned a bachelor's degree from Boston College and a Master of Business Administration from Simmons University. Kaitlin Monaghan serves as the Director of Public Policy, North America, for Vantage Data Centers. In this role, she is responsible for leading a public policy program to support the company's North American business. Monaghan partners with site selection, sustainability, tax, legal, energy and construction stakeholders to develop and advocate for Vantage's position on a multitude of issues in current and future markets.  Prior to joining Vantage, Monaghan held public policy roles at Rivian Automotive and the American Clean Power Association where she managed legislative, regulatory and economic development matters at all levels of government. She also serves as Energy and Environment Co-Chair for the Data Center Coalition (DCC). A Florida native, she is a graduate of the University of Florida with a B.S. in Environmental Science and has a law degree from Florida State University College of Law with a concentration in Energy Law. Podcast Talk on the podcast kicks off with a framing of Vantage Data Centers' recently announced $2 billion investment in a new data center campus in New Albany, Ohio in the environs of Tier 2 industry hotspot Columbus, focusing on sustainability and efficiency. The discussion touches on how the Ohio market is becoming increasingly relevant for data centers due to strong connectivity and power availability, with most major hyperscalers already investing in the region.  Along the way, we learn how Vantage's new campus in New Albany will utilize a sustainable design aimed at achieving LEED Silver certification, emphasizing low power usage effectiveness (PUE) and waterless cooling systems. The discussion also examines how partnerships with local organizations, such as the New Albany Community Foundation and Columbus State Community College Foundation, will support workforce development and community engagement.  Vantage's Adams and Monaghan also speak on how continued collaboration with utilities and policymakers is essential to address power generation challenges while supporting future data center industry growth in North America. Here's a timeline of the interview's key moments: Dana Adams shares insights on how her experience as COO of Air Trunk in Sydney informs her current role, focusing on scaling hyperscale data centers in North America. 1:36 Kaitlin Monaghan discusses her background in energy law and highlights her focus on renewable energy policy. 3:57 Investment trends in Ohio's data center market are discussed. Connectivity and power availability are identified as key factors. 7:11 The forthcoming OH1 data center campus is discussed. It will cover 70 acres and focus on sustainability. 9:57 The 200 megawatt campus will be built in phases. The first phase is set to open in late 2025. 10:37 Sustainable design principles are emphasized in the project. The design aims for low power usage effectiveness and minimal water usage. 11:31 Innovations in Ohio are discussed. The focus is on signal innovations for deployment. 13:00 Sustainable fuels integration is highlighted. Collaboration across the industry is emphasized to increase demand. 13:30 Challenges with new chip designs are addressed. Maximizing efficiency with GPUs in data centers is a key concern. 14:01 Partnerships with local organizations are discussed. Workforce development is emphasized as a key focus. 14:48 The importance of community engagement is highlighted. Vantage's long-term commitment to local hiring is noted. 15:19 Trends in workforce development within the data center industry are analyzed. The significance of workforce as a pillar of sustainability is mentioned. 16:43 Insights into Vantage Data Centers' growth are shared. Anticipation for 2025 includes a focus on infrastructure and workforce needs. 17:49 Challenges in power generation and transmission are addressed. Engagement with utilities and policymakers is emphasized for future growth. 19:54

How can you future-proof your collocation? Start by combining advanced AI hardware with global data center capabilities. On this episode of Six Five On The Road at SC24, hosts Keith Townsend and David Nicholson are joined by Lenovo's CMO Flynn Maloy and Digital Realty's Chief Executive of Alliances - Global Sales, Seamus Matthews for a conversation on how their collaboration addresses the increasing demand for #AIinfrastructure and sustainable data center solutions.  Watch the full video for more on

Why Jennifer Warren has been focusing on AI, data centers and energy demand (1:10). Shale, M&A and growth (5:00). Looking through lower oil prices; who's most affected? (11:00) Returns for Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Digital Realty and SMH, the Semiconductor ETF, across 10 years (20:20). Portfolio theory testing; nuclear plays will take time (28:00).Show Notes:Generative AI's Chartreuse Adoption MomentEnergy, AI, And Digital Infrastructure: Crowded Trade Or Something Else?U.S. And Global Energy Drivers And OpportunitiesRead our transcriptsFor full access to analyst ratings, stock quant scores and dividend grades, subscribe to Seeking Alpha Premium at seekingalpha.com/subscriptions

Did you know that a ChatGPT query takes up nearly 10 times the amount of electricity needed to run a Google search on average?  That's right. And what that means is that the current boom in artificial intelligence we're seeing is driving up a significant increase in data centre workload and demand for data centre capacity. For one thing, the International Data Corporation or IDC expects the surging demand for AI workloads to drive up AI data centre capacity at a projected compound annual growth rate of 40.5% from 2024 through 2027.    But how has that filtered down to data centre operators and related REITs? That's what we are going to find out from our guest for today, Digital Core REIT.  Listed on the mainboard of the SGX in 2021, Digital Core Reit is said to be the only pure-play data centre Singapore REIT sponsored by data centre owner and operator Digital Realty.  The REIT has a principal investment strategy of investing in a diversified portfolio of stabilised income-producing real estate assets located globally which are used primarily for data centre purposes, as well as assets necessary to support the digital economy. Currently, the REIT holds US$1.4B in assets under management and 10 data centres in its portfolio. But how will this change amid the boom in AI, and how far will Southeast Asia be a bright spot for the firm, with big techs pouring investments into the region to build data centres?  Also – how does Digital Core REIT assess Singapore as a destination to host data centres? On Under the Radar, The Evening Runway's finance presenter Chua Tian Tian posed these questions to John Stewart, CEO, Digital Core REIT. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) eröffnet als Katalysator für mehr Produktivität, Innovationskraft und Effizienz nicht nur für Unternehmen, sondern auch für Deutschland als Wirtschaftsstandort enorme Wachstumspotenziale. Eine aktuelle Studie des Instituts der Deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) im Auftrag der unter dem Dach des eco Verbands gegründeten Allianz zur Stärkung digitaler Infrastrukturen untersucht genau diese “Spillover-Effekte” von Rechenzentren und beziffert auf Basis einer Unternehmensbefragung die Übertragungseffekte von Datacentern auf die Beschäftigung oder das Umsatzwachstum im Rahmen der KI-Wende. Mit Blick auf den diesjährigen Digital Gipfel sprechen Sidonie und Sven in der aktuellen Folge von “Das Ohr am Netz” mit ihren Gästen über die Ergebnisse der Studie und die Bedeutung digitaler Infrastrukturen für die digitale Transformation und Innovation in Deutschland. Vorgestellt wird die neue Studie von Carsten Kestermann, Director Public Policy bei AWS, Mitglied der eco Allianz und Mitwirkender an der Studie. Im Gespräch mit Sidonie erläutert er die Kernergebnisse und erklärt, welche Handlungsempfehlungen sich aus der Studie in Richtung Politik ergeben. Volker Ludwig, Senior Vice President und Managing Director DACH bei Digital Realty und Mitglied der eco Allianz, berichtet im Gespräch mit Sven, wie sein Unternehmen versucht, das Innovationspotenzial durch Rechenzentren zu maximinieren. Außerdem erklärt er, vor welchen Herausforderungen Rechenzentrumsbetreiber stehen, wenn es darum geht, die enormen Rechenkapazitäten auch in Zukunft sicherzustellen. Bernd Lohmann, CTO bei der Bayer AG, spricht im Interview mit Sven darüber, wie das Unternehmen KI einsetzt, um Innovationen im Chemie- und Pharmabereich hervorzubringen und die Mission des Bayer Konzerns “Health for All - Hunger for None” voranzutreiben. Dabei erklärt er auch, welche Rolle digitale Infrastrukturen in diesem Kontext spielen. Weitere Informationen: Allianz-Studie “Spillover-Effekte von Rechenzentren” Webseite Digital Gipfel 2024 eco Lounge beim Digital Gipfel eco Umfrage zu politischer Meinungsbildung eco Allianz zu EnEfG eco Eckpunktepapier zum EnEfG-Anpassungsgesetz ----------- Redaktion: Christin Müller, Anja Wittenburg, Melanie Ludewig Schnitt: David Grassinger Moderation: Sidonie Krug, Sven Oswald Produktion: eco – Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V.

In this insightful interview, we sit down with Miranda Gardiner, Executive Director of the iMasons Climate Accord, to discuss the critical role of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and how they are helping to drive carbon reduction efforts across the digital infrastructure sector. As major industry players like Meta, Microsoft, Google, AWS, Schneider Electric, and Digital Realty unite under the iMasons Climate Accord, they have issued a call to action on EPDs to advance transparency and accountability. #digitalinfrastructure #datacloudusa

Fabrice Coquio, Président de Digital Realty France, et Matthieu Le Taillandier, Président de Securitas Technology France, ont échangé en exclusivité pour DCmag sur la sécurité du datacenter et l'indispensable partenariat entre ces deux acteurs leaders de la colocation et de la sécurité des entreprises critiques.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Ranjini Venkatesan, vice president and senior credit officer at Moody's Ratings, was a guest on the latest episode of the Nareit REIT Report podcast.Venkatesan discussed how capital investment levels have been high for both Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) and Equinix, Inc . (Nasdaq: EQIX), and are expected to remain so.“Over the last three years, annual investment by Digital Realty and Equinix averaged 5.5 % of their gross asset base, which is high,” she said. Both REITs have demonstrated the ability to raise capital at healthy pricing through different credit cycles and with strong leasing execution for the properties being built, she added.This episode is supported by LoopNet.

The rise of AI, cloud computing, e-commerce, and other technologies and businesses that require large amounts of processing power and data storage is fuelling demand for data centres, and Southeast Asia looks well-positioned to benefit significantly. In Singapore, there are over 70 data centres, serving as one of the biggest hubs in the world. But what will it take for Singapore to continued to keep pace with global digitalisation and stay ahead in the data centre race? Ashton Soh, Director of Acquisitions, at real estate investment trust Digital Realty and Chair of SGTech's Data Centre Chapter, shares his insights on the data centre industry and the outlook for Singapore. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This May, Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) announced a collaboration with Oracle to accelerate the growth and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) computing among enterprises. For this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, we asked Digital Realty Chief Revenue Officer Colin McLean to expand on key points of his company's AI data center design and implementation efforts in light of the new partnership with Oracle. In their announcement, Oracle and Digital Realty said their new strategic collaboration aims to develop hybrid integrated solutions that "address data gravity challenges, expedite time to market for enterprises deploying next-generation AI services, and unlock data and AI-based business outcomes." We also asked McLean about how he's seen the trend lines for data center pricing, leasing and capacity changes over the past 5-6 years of the cloud industry, compared to roughly the past year of AI growth since he's been CRO for Digital Realty. Here's a timeline of the interview's key moments:  0:32 - Data Center Frontier asks McLean to elaborate on the salient points of AI data center design in light of Digital Realty's partnership with Oracle. McLean explains the significance of the partnership, emphasizing how it addresses the challenges of managing high-density workloads in AI and data-intensive applications. 6:19 - DCF continues asking about trends in AI data center design, particularly regarding pricing, leasing, and capacity changes over the past few years. Citing how enterprises and service providers are planning for increased capacity requirements due to AI growth, McLean highlights the need for forward-thinking capacity planning due to evolving requirements, increasing workload density, and the introduction of new programs to support higher density requirements. 8:14 - Trends in AI data center design since the industry's ChatGPT inflection point of 2023 are addressed. McLean emphasizes the importance of designing data centers to accommodate mixed densities globally, sustainability considerations, and the need to closely collaborate with clients and partners to meet evolving requirements. 12:20 - McLean discusses the global scale of Digital Realty, emphasizing capacity requirements, major metros, emerging markets like Frankfurt, and the growth of the platform across various regions. 15:06 - DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent directs the conversation toward the topic of power, highlighting its significance in the data center industry and asking McLean about aspects related to renewables, the grid, and onsite powering options. 15:45 - McLean elaborates on the importance of sustainability for Digital Realty, emphasizing the company's efforts to work with municipalities, support a greener world, and address power concerns globally, including plans for future expansion into markets such as India and Africa. 17:42 - DCF acknowledges the critical link between sustainability, AI, and power issues, prompting McLean to reiterate the company's commitment to supporting a sustainable world and navigating the balance between local needs and economic growth.

The longer the Fed waits to cut, the more they risk that something breaks, according to Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi. He'll join us to make his case, in light of today's PCE inflation data. Plus, Digital Realty's CEO joins Kelly on the heels of their quarterly results with what's driving demand for data centers. And weakness in China is one of this earnings season's big themes, but our market guest says that presents a buying opportunity for investors.

In our latest Tech Talks Daily Podcast episode, I sit down with Seamus Dunne from Digital Realty to explore the accelerating demand for compute power driven by AI and generative AI technologies. As these innovations push the boundaries of what's possible, the infrastructure supporting them must evolve at a matching pace—or risk being left behind. Seamus delves into the heart of the matter, explaining how Digital Realty responds to the rising demand for high-performance infrastructure like GPUs and AI chips. He shares insights on how AI drives the need for robust data storage and efficient data access solutions. The discussion touches on the strategic importance of local investment in infrastructure to maintain competitive advantage, especially in regions like the UK. We also explore the types of AI workloads becoming prevalent across various sectors. Currently, a significant portion of these workloads is dedicated to training models. Still, Seamus anticipates a shift towards inferencing as AI models mature and become integral to advanced products and services. This shift necessitates a robust and adaptable IT infrastructure strategy to deploy AI models alongside cloud services effectively. Seamus highlights how data centers are pivotal in our daily digital activities—from streaming Netflix and conducting Zoom calls to online shopping and planning holidays. Beyond everyday conveniences, data centers are the powerhouse behind generative AI and other innovations driving economic growth. Seamus discusses the evolving needs of AI infrastructure, emphasizing the importance of proximity to data centers for low-latency performance, particularly for AI inferencing. He also touches on the geographical advantages and challenges, noting how regions like the UK are well-positioned for AI growth while others, like Dublin, may need more support due to regulatory constraints.

AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Schneider Electric Call for Supplier Action to Help Decarbonize Digital Infrastructure iMasons Climate Accord Governing Body Members Sign Open Letter Outlining Importance of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) Amid Rapid Growth of Data Centers Leading digital infrastructure companies call for industry adoption of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) to accelerate net-zero ambitions Scope 3 emissions make up large percentage of hyperscale and data center carbon emissions Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) detail the greenhouse gas emissions of infrastructure products through their entire lifecycle Why it is important to Decarbonise Digital Infrastructure The Governing Body of the iMasons Climate Accord, a program of Infrastructure Masons, is calling on all suppliers serving data centers to support greater transparency in Scope 3 emissions as part of broader efforts to reduce the industry's carbon footprint. Consisting of AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Schneider Electric, the Governing Body released an open letter today that explains the importance of widespread adoption of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which are standardized, third-party-verified documents reporting the embodied emissions of a product. EPDs outline the greenhouse gas emissions of a product through its entire lifecycle, from the raw materials in the product (e.g., how they are extracted, transported, and processed), to manufacturing, transportation, product use, and product end-of-life (e.g., landfill, recycling, repurposing, etc.). While EPDs are common in some business sectors, there is not widespread adoption of EPDs in the data center industry. The open letter demonstrates a significant push forward from the world's largest hyperscalers and digital infrastructure companies to drive meaningful change across the industry, working in partnership with their trusted suppliers. It is essential to continue to ensure the digital infrastructure industry decarbonizes as it grows. The signatories of the iMasons Governing Body's open letter all have net-zero carbon emissions commitments in place to address their responsibility in mitigating data center carbon emissions (with deadlines ranging from 2025 to 2040, which is at least 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement), and this letter marks another milestone toward decarbonizing of operations. Hyperscalers have implemented strategies to reduce and/or mitigate Scope 1 and 2 emissions. As they seek to reach net-zero carbon emissions in the coming years, solving the next piece of the sustainability puzzle lies in reducing Scope 3 emissions, which can represent anywhere from 38-69% of data centers' total carbon footprint. Scope 3 emissions are not produced by the company itself; rather, they include the indirect emissions throughout the value chain. Access to the critical information in EPDs empowers data center owners, operators, and end-users to effectively calculate their environmental impact and choose products (servers, cooling systems, uninterruptible power supplies [UPS]) and services based on lower Scope 3 emissions, best aligning with sustainability targets. "EPDs are crucial in transforming the future of digital infrastructure to be more resilient and climate positive. The adoption of EPDs within the global supply chain fosters both sustainable and accountable outcomes. As standardized and verified data provides a layer of transparency, this initiative supports a collective approach to reducing our carbon emissions and environmental footprints," said Miranda Gardiner, Executive Director of the iMasons Climate Accord, a coalition of 250+ members that represents an $8 trillion combined market cap. "At AWS, we are committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions across our operations by 2040 by investing in carbon-free energy, scaling solutions, and collaborating with partners to broaden our impact," said Eric Wilcox, V...

Ireland may be getting a new Environment and Energy Minister soon but its moratorium on the construction of new data centres will remain government policy for the lifetime of this coalition. It means that large technology companies on whom the Irish economy depends, may have to think twice before further investment in this country if they cannot get easy and quick access to terabytes of data relating to their customers. Also, AI continues to drive investment in other countries but may not be possible here due to issues with our digital infrastructure. All topics to discuss with Seamus Dunne, UK&I Managing Director at Digital Realty which is one of the biggest technology companies in the world and part of the S&P 500 index.

In this week's episode, join us as we explore recent significant advancements in technology and sustainability. Discussions encompass the fortified cybersecurity partnership between Nozomi Networks and Yokogawa, and the substantial investment by the U.S. government in semiconductor production with TSMC. We also delve into the latest industrial efficiency technologies from L&T Technology Services and the introduction of ARM's Ethos-U85 neural processing unit, poised to elevate IoT applications.Furthermore, the episode talks about Mitsubishi Electric'sstrategic move to transfer its transformer division to Hitachi, focusing onenergy-efficient solutions, and Siemens' introduction of the SINEC SecurityGuard software, enhancing cybersecurity in industrial settings. Insights areprovided on GlobalLogic's new AI Platform-of-Platforms and the collaborationbetween Schneider Electric and IPConfigure to bolster security in urbanbuildings.Additionally, we discuss the green hydrogen initiative byVerdagy and Doral, along with Schneider Electric and Digital Realty's endeavorsto foster a circular economy in their Paris data center.Join us as we navigate through these developments, providinginformed perspectives on their implications for business operations andenvironmental sustainability. This episode offers a comprehensive examinationof cutting-edge innovations across various sectors, driving resilience andsustainability in today's corporate landscape.Tune in for a discerning exploration of this week's pivotalupdates in technology and sustainability.--------------------------------------------------------------------------Would you like to be a guest on our growing podcast? If you have an intriguing, thought provoking topic you'd like to discuss on our podcast, please contact our host Jim Frazer View all the episodes here: https://thesustainabilitypodcast.buzzsprout.com

Servecentric, the Irish data centre colocation, cloud and connectivity services provider, has announced an extension of its lease deal with colocation data centre provider Digital Realty to the value of €10 million. The six-year deal will enable Servecentric to enhance its service portfolio and increase capacity for both existing and new customers, generating additional revenue streams across local and global markets. By targeting a wider audience of SMEs and enterprises, Servecentric will be equipped to strengthen its presence in Ireland and further expand its position in international markets including Europe, the US and India. This growth will mainly consist of projects spanning areas such as cloud repatriation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), security and managed service hosting. Underpinning these projects will be Servecentric's relationships with 18 telecom carrier partners, which will aid the expansion of its colocation business and help to deliver greater connectivity, security and reliability for organisations. The extended partnership with Digital Realty will enable Servecentric's customers to scale by facilitating more colocation and cloud projects and delivering more connectivity options for building hybrid multi-cloud networks. Customers will also have access to a suite of hyperscale on-ramp solutions including local high-capacity AWS Direct Connect port connectivity services. Following significant investment in improvements, the Digital Realty facility now delivers enhanced physical security, improved resilience and increased operational efficiency. Furthermore, customers will benefit from decreased downtime through onsite technical support services from Servecentric - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This deal extension follows a period of growth for Servecentric, with the company announcing in August 2023 that it had generated revenues of €6.6 million from international markets over the last two years. Brian Roe, Servecentric CEO, said: "The demand for cloud, colocation and connectivity services is on the rise - and that's not going to stop any time soon. This deal means that we can continue delivering the best customer experience and most responsive technical support, while enhancing our offering and enabling us to take on new business. "It shows our commitment to the market and provides an incredible launchpad from which to drive further growth throughout 2024 and beyond. Working with leaders like Digital Realty helps us to uphold world-class standards and identify more opportunities not only in Ireland but also across international markets." Tanya Lay, Director, Asset Management, Digital Realty, added: "We're delighted to renew our long-standing partnership with Servecentric in our DUB10 facility. Ireland's digital economy continues to grow, resulting in a greater demand for Servecentric's services. This renewal reflects on both its and Digital Realty's commitment to supporting the IT requirements of local and global enterprises." See more stories here.

In this episode of Infrastructure Matters, Camberley Bates, Steven Dickens, and Krista Macomber discuss recent developments in the tech industry, including Palo Alto's earnings revision, IBM's security report, Lenovo's earnings, and Hammerspace's new Hyperscale NAS release. They delve into the implications of these developments for cybersecurity, infrastructure, and AI. Key points discussed include: Palo Alto Networks lowers earnings expectations, causing a stir in tech and financial markets. Stock value increased due to cybersecurity focus. Shifting towards a platform approach may lead to short-term pricing sacrifices but is a wise long-term move. The X-Force Threat Intelligence Report by IBM reveals cybersecurity trends, with a focus on cybercriminals exploiting user identity. Attacks on critical infrastructure are a concern, emphasizing the need to prioritize cybersecurity basics like patching and multifactor authentication. The report suggests that attacks on AI yield limited returns, indicating that AI in security is growing but not yet a primary target for cybercriminals. Lenovo reported a record PC market share and year-on-year growth, with 42% of revenue from non-PC sources. They have a strong presence in the cloud, collaborate with Digital Realty for AI in data centers, and released Hammerspace's Hyperscale NAS which addresses high-performance data storage in AI environments.  

A gap up at the open for the major indexes gave up a lot of ground but still finished positive. But it was the small-caps that really led the way as yields came down. Real estate was on the rise and Digital Realty broke out of from a flat base. MongoDB broke above a downtrend and cleared an important 400 level again. Finally, semiconductor equipment maker ASML Holdings broke out from a cup with handle but it has earnings around the corner.

Dans l'actu : Marseille va devenir certainement le 1er hub digital mondial avec l'investissement de Digital Realty de 280 millions d'euros dans un data center énorme : 12 000 m2 d'espaces informatiques qui permettront des échanges de 660 terabits/seconde de données : c'est énorme. Caen : 10 ans après la reprise par ses salariés, les biscuiterie Jeannette retrouvent le sourirePour ses 35 ans, le parc Astérix va investir 20% de son CA (170 M€ en 2022) pour moderniser son parc ! L'invité : Alexandre Chen En duplex de Troyes (Aube) Alexandre Chen nous présente Pikkopay : une solution innovante et originale pour transformer votre téléphone mobile en caisse enregistreuse lorsque vous faites vos courses ! Éco Régions Le palmarès des 3 plus belles gares de France. Numéro 1 : Limoges ! La gare des Bénédictins va retrouver quelques couleurs en bois d'antan... Reportage de 7àLimogesDirection la Bretagne pour trouver son sapin bio ! Nous sommes à Briec dans le Finistère. reportage Tébéo

US futures are pointing to a slightly lower open as of 04:05 ET. European equity markets have opened in the positive territory, following mixed to higher levels in Asian markets. BoJ policy outlook remains a big story in cross-asset markets. Yen rally has dominated headlines as traders raised bets on BOJ tightening with markets now pricing in almost even chance of a December policy change. Companies Mentioned: Micron Technology, Digital Realty, Blackstone

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Welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure. GBM is brought to you by Preiskel & Co, a leading award-winning City of London law firm, internationally recognised for its expertise in the digital infrastructure industry and the telecoms and tech sector work more broadly. Wherever your legal or regulatory needs are (including outer space) Preiskel & Co LLP can support you, so do feel free to reach out to them at www.preiskel.com. This week, we are joined by an entrepreneurial and competitive international leader focused on energetically growing business and building diverse high-performing teams. Mark Smith co-founded and serves as the Executive Chairman for Qarbon Technologies since June 2022. Prior to this, he served as the Managing Director - Asia Pacific for Digital Realty from 2018 to 2022. And before that he held the position of Managing Director - Asia at Zettagrid. Before these roles, Mark was the Managing Director - Cloud Services - Asia Pacific at VMware and he also held the position of Managing Director - Asia Pacific for CenturyLink (Formerly Savvis Inc.). Mark's earlier work experience includes serving as the President & Senior Company Officer - Japan at Thomson Reuters from 2007 to 2010, and as the Head of Sales - Asia Pacific from 2002 to 2007. He was the Global Head of Sales at eBridge from early 1999 to 2002. Prior to these roles, Mark held the position of General Manager at Bridge Information Systems and served as the Head of Sales - Asia at SunGard from 1995 to 1997, and as a Major Account Manager at Knight Ridder Financial from 1991 to 1995. He attended the University of Puget Sound, where he obtained a Bachelor's Degree. In 1987, he also briefly studied Mandarin at Tunghai University. Additionally, in 1988 to 1989, Mark Smith studied Mandarin at Beijing Normal University. He joins us now from Tokyo where he lives with his family. Here at the GBM podcast, we hope you enjoy this episode and do leave us a review and share it with your contacts. We invite you back again for the next episode with another big name in the digital infrastructure space. If you want to get more from the definitive podcast for the business of digital infrastructure, make sure you subscribe to Great Business Minds. See you soon!   /////////////////////// This episode features our commercial partner Preiskel & Co, a leading award-winning City of London law firm, internationally recognised for its expertise in the digital infrastructure industry as well as the telecoms and tech sector work more broadly. Visit www.preiskel.com for more information. ///////////////////////   Get more from the GBM Podcast on: Official Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube

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Data Center Frontier editors Matt Vincent and David Chernicoff recently caught up with Cyxtera's Field CTO Holland Barry on the occasion of Cyxtera and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announcing a new collaboration to help simplify customers' hybrid IT strategies. Cyxtera is now leveraging HPE's GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to support an enterprise bare metal platform. The podcast discussion extends to how Cyxtera is presently focused on supporting AI workloads in data centers and collaborating with HPE to offer a multi-hybrid cloud strategy. Barry revealed during the podcast that Cyxtera already supports 70 kilowatt racks in 18 markets, and is discussing expanded deployments with its customers and partners. Barry added that many present customers are considering moving to private cloud platforms, due to rising public cloud costs and unexpected fees. Barry said, "My function here at Cyxtera deals largely with the technologies that we both implement internally and also that we deploy within the data centers themselves to make sure that experience of being in the data center colo facility is seamless, feels as much like cloud as it can in terms of the provisioning of services, how we bill for things, things like that." He added, "Generally speaking, I'm a technologist at heart and I just want to make sure that what we're building is what's useful for the market to consume." Here's a list of key points discussed on the podcast: 2:01 - Barry talks about Cyxtera's vision for supporting AI workloads in data centers, including cooling technologies, network speed, power designs, and accommodating adjacencies with edge and public cloud platforms. 4:18 - DCF's Chernicoff asks if Cyxtera will offer 70 kilowatt racks a la Digital Realty. Barry explains that Cyxtera already supports this capacity in 18 of its markets, and is in active discussions with customers and partners over an expansion. 5:40 - Barry discusses how Cyxtera's collaboration with HPE addresses rising cloud costs and furthers a multi-hybrid cloud strategy, including Cyxtera's new enterprise bare metal platform and options for opex financing models. 7:53 - Use cases for customers moving to the HPE GreenLake solution via Cyxtera are discussed, including repatriating cloud workloads and tech refreshes. 15:03 - Asked about the convergence of cloud and hybrid IT strategies, Barry says that Cyxtera views themselves as part of such transformations and says the provider is up front with its customers about what workloads are best suited for their platform. The trend of recalibrating workloads from the public cloud to data centers for better cost management is also discussed. 18:22 - Barry expounds on how egress fees and other unexpected costs can lead to a "death by 1000 cuts" situation for public cloud users, driving them to consider private cloud options 19:57 - Barry observes that many customers are realizing the costs of the public cloud and considering moving to a private cloud solution, and emphasizes the importance of Cyxtera making this transition as easy as possible through technology choices and partnerships. 21:57 - Barry comments on the new Cyxtera partnership with HPE in the context of providing choices and solutions to make moving customer workloads to their venue as easy as possible, with the goal of building a multi-hybrid cloud reality in the future. Background on Cyxtera Cyxtera Technologies operates a global network of 60 data centers, supports 2,300 customers, and had $746 million in revenue in 2022. The company was formed in 2016 when Medina Capital, led by former Terremark CEO Manuel Medina, teamed with investors including BC Partners to buy the data center portfolio of CenturyLink for $2.15 billion. It was at that time one of several data center players seeking to build a colocation business atop a portfolio of data centers spun off by telecom companies. This April, Data Center Frontier's Rich Miller reported that Cyxtera Technologies was reportedly fielding interest from suitors as it sought to reduce its debt load. Data Center Dynamics at that time shared that Cyxtera was exploring options for a sale or capital raise, citing a Bloomberg story that said private equity suitors were studying the company's operations. Shares of Cyxtera had fallen sharply in value during that timeframe and were trading at 31 cents a share at one point, giving the company a market capitalization of about $55 million, a far cry from the $3.4 billion valuation placed on the company when it went public in 2021 through a merger with Starboard Value Acquisition Corp. In May, as shares of Cyxtera fell to new lows, DCF reported lenders for the company said they would provide the colocation provider with $50 million in new funding, allowing it more time to arrange a sale or line up new capital. In June, the colocation provider filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. After working for months to find a buyer or reduce its debt load, the company decided it would now restructure through a pre-packaged bankruptcy. The Chapter 11 filing was part of an arrangement with its lenders, who retained the right to gain a controlling equity interest in the company under terms of a restructuring agreement. At the time of the bankruptcy filing, some of the company's lenders committed to provide $200 million in financing to enable Cyxtera to continue operating as it restructures. "Cyxtera expects to use the Chapter 11 process to strengthen the company's financial position, meaningfully deleverage its balance sheet and facilitate the business's long-term success," the company said in a press release." More details have been made available on Cyxtera's restructuring web site. Cyxtera subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore are not included in the bankruptcy case, which was filed in New Jersey. Dgtl Infra's Mary Zhang has done significant recent reporting over the summer on the story of Cyxtera's existing lease rejections in wake of the bankruptcy filing, as well as charting the company's timeline extension for its bankruptcy-led sale process into late September. In his June reporting on Cyxtera's bankruptcy filing, DCF's Miller noted that: "Since Cyxtera leases many of its data centers, Cyxtera's Chapter 11 filing creates a potential challenge for its landlords. Cyxtera leases space in 15 facilities operated by Digital Realty, representing $61.5 million in annual revenue, or about 1.7 percent of Digital's annual revenue. It also leases space in 6 data centers owned by Digital Core REIT, a Singapore-based public company sponsored by Digital Realty. That includes two sites in Los Angeles, three in Silicon Valley and one in Frankfurt. The $16.3 million in annual rent from Cyxtera represents 22.3 percent of revenue for Digital Core REIT. A bankruptcy filing provides debtors with the opportunity to reject leases to reduce their real estate costs. In its press release, Cyxtera noted that it "is continuing to evaluate its data center footprint, consistent with its commitment to optimizing operations." An August report from Bloomberg stated that Cyxtera had drawn interest for its assets from multiple parties, including Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty Trust Inc., according to people with knowledge of the situation. as reported by Bloomberg's Reshmi Basu. In a recent email to this editor regarding Cyxtera, DCF's Miller opined further: "The key questions for Cyxtera are really all about the bankruptcy outcome, and where that stands. The future could be very different for Cyxtera depending who the winning bidder is and whether they would reject leases. For example, Digital Realty is reported to be one of the bidders. That makes sense, as Cyxtera leases 12 facilities from them and DLR has a vested interest in protecting that income. But if Digital wins the auction, do they keep leasing space in Cyxtera's many non-Digital sites? Or do they reject those leases and consolidate? The auction winner will guide future strategy for Cyxtera. And it could be very different if it's a private equity firm vs. a strategic buyer like Digital Realty." On August 7, concurrent with its business update for Q2, Cyxtera announced that it had reached a key milestone in its Chapter 11 process by filing a proposed plan of reorganization with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, and said it had reached an agreement with its lenders to optimize the company's capital structure and reduce its pre-filing funded debt by more than $950 million. In its Q2 update, the company said it had delivered solid growth in total revenue, recurring revenue, core revenue and transaction adjusted EBITDA. Cyxtera's August 7 press release added that negotiations around the company's sale alternative remained active. According to a press release, the proposed reorganization plan is supported by certain of Cyxtera's lenders who collectively hold over two-thirds of the company's outstanding first lien debt, and are parties to Cyxtera's previously announced restructuring support agreement. The company said the proposed plan provides flexibility for the company to pursue a balance sheet recapitalization or a sale of the business. Cyxtera noted that if the plan is approved and a recapitalization is consummated, the lenders have committed to support a holistic restructuring of the company's balance sheet. Such a restructuring would eliminate more than $950 million of Cyxtera's pre-filing debt and provide the company with enhanced financial flexibility to invest in its business for the benefit of its customers and partners. For Q2 of 2023, Cyxtera said its total revenue increased by $14.9 million, or 8.1% YoY, to $199.0 million in the second quarter of 2023. On a constant currency basis, the company's total revenue increased by $15.1 million, or 8.2% YoY. Recurring revenue increased by $15.8 million, or 9.1% YoY, to $190.0 million in the second quarter. Cyxtera added that its core revenue increased by $17.4 million, or 10.3% YoY, to $186.2 million in the second quarter. Finally, the company said its transaction Adjusted EBITDA increased by $6.4 million, or 10.7%, to $66.4 million and increased by $6.5 million, or 10.9% YoY, on a constant currency basis, in the second quarter. Carlos Sagasta, Cyxtera's Chief Financial Officer, said, “We are pleased to have delivered another quarter of solid growth across the business, underscoring the strength of our offering and the value we create for our global customers. We expect to continue building on this momentum as we successfully complete the process to strengthen our financial position for the long term.” The press release added that in either a recapitalization or sale scenario, the company remains on track to emerge from the court-supervised process no later than the fall of this year. The company said it had received multiple qualified bids to date. Final bids from interested parties in the sale process were originally due on August 18, a deadline which came and went. An auction slated for August 30 was also cancelled. Nelson Fonseca, Cyxtera's Chief Executive Officer, commented, “We continue to make important progress in our court-supervised process, while demonstrating solid performance across our business. Filing this plan with the support of our lenders provides us a path to emerge in a significantly stronger financial position.” Here are links to some recent DCF articles on Cyxtera: Colocation Provider Cyxtera Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Cyxtera Gets $50 Million Funding, More Time to Seek a Buyer As Stock Price Slumps, Cyxtera Reportedly Mulling Capital Raise or Sale Cyxtera Goes Public as Starboard SPAC Acquisition Closes Cyxtera to Go Public Through $3.4 Billion Merger With Starboard SPAC

In der heutigen Folge „Alles auf Aktien“ sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Nando Sommerfeldt und Philipp Vetter über die Bitcoin-Krise dank SpaceX, ungewohnte Zahlen des Traktoren-Champions und das nächste China-Opfer. Außerdem geht es um Ethereum, Ripple, Coinbase, Estée Lauder, Deere & Co., Verily, Waymo, Amazon, General Motors, Grenergy, Greenvolt, Terna, Elia, Iberdrola, Enel, EDP, Digital Realty, Equinix, Vinci, Transurban, American Water, Severn Trent, den L&G US Energy Infrastructure (A1XE2P), den iShares Emerging Market Infrastructue (A0NECV) und den iShares Global Infrastructure (A0LEW9). Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.htmlTEASER AUS TEAMS_EXCEL Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. Außerdem bei WELT: Im werktäglichen Podcast „Kick-off Politik - Das bringt der Tag“ geben wir Ihnen im Gespräch mit WELT-Experten die wichtigsten Hintergrundinformationen zu einem politischen Top-Thema des Tages. Mehr auf welt.de/kickoff und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Joe Wheeler, international bestselling author, technology innovator, consultant, and speaker. Joe has recently written a groundbreaking book called "Digital First Customer Experience: Seven Design Strategies From the World's Leading Brands."Throughout this episode, Joe shares valuable insights and practical tips on how companies can leverage digital strategies to create highly scalable and repeatable experiences for their customers. Joe also highlights some remarkable success stories from companies like Lemonade, Amazon, Starbucks and Nike, demonstrating how they have revolutionized customer experiences through digital design strategies. We delve into the importance of personalization, with Spotify serving as a standout example in the field.But it's not just about technology and digital solutions. We explore:the importance of understanding customer loyalty drivers the significance of addressing customer problemsthe potential pitfalls of falling in love with the product instead of focusing on customer needsThe future of technology, including the imminent arrival of 6G and the convergence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and edge-based computingJoin us as we dive deep into the world of digital first customer experiences, uncovering the secrets to delighting customers and turning them into loyal fans. Get ready for a thought-provoking and informative conversation with Joe Wheeler on this episode of the Delighted Customers Podcast!Meet JoeJoe Wheeler is an internationally recognized best-selling author, speaker, and consultant.He is the CEO of CX/Digital a subsidiary of The Service Profit Chain Institute (SPCI), aBoston-based consulting firm he co-founded with Professors Len Schlesinger, JamesHeskett and W. Earl Sasser of the Harvard Business School. In 2002, he and Shaun Smith co-authored the best-seller: Managing the Customer Experience. He followed it up in 2008 with The Ownership Quotient, co-authored with James Hesket and Earl Sasser, Jr.His latest book, The Digital-First Customer Experience will be released in July of 2023,and describes the design strategies of leading brands including Nike, Amazon, CEMEX,Starbucks and others.Mr. Wheeler has delivered keynotes to clients and at conferences around the world ontopics including, customer experience, digital leadership and corporate culture.Joe has worked with AT&T, Bank of America, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Digital Realty,Equinix, GoDaddy, Humana, Irving Oil, Maersk. NetOne, Panera Bread, World Fuel Ser-vices and many more.He is also the Founder and Chairman of Bluemvmt, a company with a mission to protect,restore and harness ocean resources for both commercial and conservation outcomes. Prior to co-founding The Service Profit Chain Institute, he held executive roles at Bank of America, The Forum Corporation and earned an MBA from Edinburgh Business School.He lives in both Massachusetts and Nova Scotia when he is not on his way to or from aclient event.Time Stamps[00:03:11] Grew up in family business, wrote books.[00:07:21] Controversy around technology replacing frontline staff.[00:12:51] Digital-first challenges for legacy companies summarized.[00:15:20] Key loyalty drivers revealed through research. Be wary of misinterpreting customer feedback.[00:20:58] Culture, climate change, technology, and 6G speed.[00:22:58] Six G will be 30 times faster. Competition and digital asset linkage are key.[00Subscribe to The Delighted Customer Podcast so you don't miss an episode: https://www.empoweredcx.com/podcast Subscribe to The Delighted Customer Newsletter for practical tips and insights: https://www.empoweredcx.com/delightedcustomersnewsletter

Exclusivité DCmag - Fabrice COQUIO, Président de Digital Realty France, revient sur l'offre de colocation HPC (calcul), refroidissement liquide Liquid Cooling et alimentation électrique à la baie jusqu'à 100 kVA, proposée sur un datacenter parisien de Digital Realty. 

Joseph Bertucci is the Senior Vice President, Global Head of Tax at Digital Realty. In this episode of On Tax, he and Cravath partner and host Len Teti talk about how Joe's career has brought him from Texas to Florence, Italy, and back again. They also discuss how Joe gained experience in international tax through an intentional approach to his professional development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In der heutigen Folge „Alles auf Aktien“ sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Anja Ettel und Holger Zschäpitz über galaktische Pläne bei Virgin, weltweite Rezessionssorgen und Nvidia auf dem Weg zur wertvollsten Aktie der Welt. Außerdem geht es um Tesla, Rivian, Ford, General Motors, Lanxess, BASF, Evonik, Wacker Chemie, Sika, Dow, Fedex, Bayer, Volkwagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Rize Circular Economy Enablers ETF (WKN: ​​A3D6H1)​​, Commercial Metals, Steel Dynamics, Trex, Darling, Watts Water Technologies, BNP Paribas Easy Circular Economy Leaders (WKN: A2PHCA), Van Eck Circular Economy (WKN: A3DVNE), XTrackers MSCI Global SDG 12 Circular Economy ETF (WKN: DBX0TB), Taiwan Semiconductor, Digital Realty, Vestas Wind Systems, Waste Management, Waste Connections, AMD und Danone. Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Between the so-called last mile and first mile lies the middle mile, the realm of colocation and network service providers. This episode of Utilizing Tech features Roy Chua and Allyson Klein, discussing the middle mile with Stephen Foskett. This middle area includes content delivery services like Varnish and Akamai, as well as companies like Cloudflare that are delivering content and compute there. The middle network includes providers like Equinix, Digital Realty, and Megaport, which provide connectivity to the cloud and service providers, the hyperscalers themselves, and some interesting networking startups like Packet Fabric and Graphiant. We must also consider observability, with companies like cPacket and Kentik as well as companies like Cisco and Juniper Networks. Host: Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett  Guests: Allyson Klein: https://www.twitter.com/TechAllyson  Roy Chua: https://www.twitter.com/WireRoy  Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT Tags: #UtilizingEdge, #EdgeComputing, #Edge

 Claire Chadourne, la marketing & media director de Digital Realty, nous parle Hub Internet, Data Center et surtout câbles sous-marins qui relient tous les continents de la planète et nous permettent de téléphoner, surfer sur le web et regarder la TV...en même temps ! 

Bezorgdienst DHL zegt de laagste prijzen in Nederland te gaan rekenen voor versturing van enveloppen boven de 50 gram. Knabbelen ze hiermee aan het marktaandeel van PostNL? Wouter van Benten, directeur van de pakjesdivisie van DHL in de Benelux, is te gast in BNR Zakendoen.  Marco met Mujagić  Elke dag een intrigerende gedachtewisseling over de stand van de macro-economie. Op maandag en vrijdag gaat presentator Thomas van Zijl in gesprek met econoom Arnoud Boot, de rest van de week praat Van Zijl met econoom Edin Mujagić.  Beleggerspanel  UBS neemt Credit Suisse over voor de luttele som van iets meer dan 3 miljard euro. Was het een koopje? EN: ontketenen de Zwitserse autoriteiten een drama op de markt voor zogeheten coco's oftewel AT1-obligaties? Dat en meer bespreken we om 13.00 in het beleggerspanel met:   - Corné van Zeijl,  strateeg bij Actiam  - Karel Mercx, beleggingsspecialist bij Beleggers Belangen  Luister | Beleggerspanel Dataverdrag  Het internationale dataverkeer neemt de afgelopen jaren in rap tempo toe, maar passende wetgeving loopt daar nog altijd op achter. De EU en de VS lijken nu dicht bij een nieuw verdrag dat de datastromen tussen beide continenten moet versimpelen, maar experts zijn kritisch over de bescherming voor de persoonsgegevens van EU-burgers.  Te gast is Vincent in 't Veld van datacenterbedrijf Digital Realty.  Zakenpartner  Ze studeerde Human Resource Management waarna ze aan de slag ging in de recruitmentsector, maar ze kwam erachter dat haar hart daar niet lag. Een motorongeluk bleek achteraf voor haar de reden om het roer totaal om te gooien en aan de slag te gaan met haar echte passie: het ondernemen. Wat begon als een kleine startup is uitgegroeid tot een succesvol bedrijf dat natuurlijke gezichtsverzorgingsproducten maakt van plantaardige en essentiële oliën.   De zakenpartner van de week is Debbie van Weelden, van Loïs Lee Pure Skinfood.  Contact & Abonneren  BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 12:00 tot 14:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail en Twitter.  Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Atterrage du câble 2Africa, ouverture de l'Afrique au numérique, implantation de Digital Realty sur le continent, ouverture de MRS4, futur de Marseille sur la scène numérique, Fabrice COQUIO, Président de Digital Realty France, a répondu à nos questions en exclusivité, et évoqué pour nous les secrets du succès d'Interxion.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAyt7bxvi7U 

While enterprise applications have existed since the 1990's, enterprise software is expanding its scope to link the enterprise with suppliers, business partners and customers. According to Gartner, enterprise applications are designed to integrate computer systems that run all phases of an enterprise's operations to facilitate cooperation and coordination of work across the enterprise. The intent is to integrate core business processes ranging from sales, accounting, finance, human resources, inventory and manufacturing. In addition, enterprise applications, have also been a key driver of transformation from replacing ageing and inflexible on-premise software with more flexible alternatives hosted in the cloud, to integration of new services with legacy applications, improving not only usability but unlocking the power of data analytics. This evolution of enterprise systems and increased integration is putting even more emphasis on the growth of, and management of, data. In fact, according to our latest research, commissioned by Amárach and in partnership with HPE, 36% of organisations felt that a key challenge facing their organisation was understanding data and how best to manage it. With increasing growth and reliance on enterprise applications, understanding how to best support your organisation's data is paramount. The rapidly evolving digital economy is forcing enterprises to address more questions and challenges regarding their IT infrastructure. In fact, with more than half of respondents (54%) from our research forecasting that the total number of IT and business applications deployed by their organisation will grow anywhere from 11% – 50% in the next 12 months, there has never been a more important time for Irish businesses to have the right IT infrastructure and partner ecosystem in place to scale and meet the changing demands of the current business environment. An immediate next step for Irish organisations on their digital transformation journeys is to understand how to best protect and optimise their enterprise applications and the data they contain. The role of cloud computing in managing enterprise applications is critical. A reason why some IT and business leaders may be apprehensive about migrating fully to the cloud, including their enterprise applications, is the prospect of extended downtime. When dealing with the public cloud or not having the skill-base to complete the job effectively, migrating to the cloud can cause lengthy downtime. Similarly, cost can be a key deterrent from cloud migration as well as legacy applications, which can't live on the cloud. Data centres and specifically colocation facilities can help to simplify this complex process by providing a hybrid approach that securely manages IT systems and data. Colocation offers a myriad of supports ranging from connectivity, security, disaster recovery (DR), ability to scale, as well as control over business-critical IT infrastructure. When an organisation is so heavily dependent on enterprise applications, the risk of data becoming disorganised is quite high. Leveraging data centres to efficiently store, power, cool and connect an organisations' IT infrastructure is critical because it could transform the way your organisation performs on many levels, especially when it comes to productivity and efficiency. To read a full copy of Digital Realty report The Drivers and Challenges of Ireland's IT Landscape, click here.

Glenn Snyder, builds high performing FP&A teams from scratch.  Now VP of FP&A at Mobileum, a telecom analytics leader, Glenn continues to enhance a reputation for transforming FP&A into an engine for Silicon Valley growth earned over nearly two decades.  Previously he has built finance partnership teams At Charles Schwab, followed by  revamping annual budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting at $4B global Real Estate company Digital Realty, restructuring  a15-person FP&A team at Global Growth Holdings,  and leveling up the FP&A and Data Analytics teams at online design marketplace Zazzle before his latest FP&A adventure at Mobileum . In this episode Glenn reveals the secrets to building high performance FP&A teams. Glenn discusses: His reason for sticking with FP&A over 18 years (not least the ability to strategically interact with every aspect of a company) The power of quarterly forecasts to secure alignment in a business and transform a business direction Why building a new FP&A team will see you work 80 hours a week and considerable “mental awareness” The power of creating a three-year FP&A Strategy in your first 90 Days which sees 95% of goals hit The power of eliminating manual work in FP&A How to powerfully speak up in FP&A (even as an introvert) How to differentiate a leader's role in FP&A vs those you manage  The secrets to hiring  someone for an FP&A role and how to find the things that can be taught vs those that can't  Why FP&A and data analytics need to work better together  The real way to approach build a successful finance business partnership that lasts His most valuable lessons after achieving several finance software implementations  The failure that forced Glenn to work on his soft skills and transformed his career His secret life as a lifelong baseball fan and published  author    Watch the full show on YouTube. Read the full transcript and blog Follow Glenn Snyder on LinkedIn  Follow Paul Barnhurst on LinkedIn Follow Datarails on LinkedIn FP&A Today is brought to you by Datarails. Datarails is the financial planning and analysis platform that automates data consolidation, reporting and planning, while enabling finance teams to continue using their own Excel spreadsheets and financial models. Get in touch at www.datarails.com  

What does a technologist do at a real estate company? We talk to Digital Realty's CTO Chris Sharp about the importance of understanding both bits and bricks, discuss the company's interconnection efforts, and do a quickfire round on which future technologies will transform the data center.

In today's podcast we talk about the Bear Market, DLR and Amazon stocks. We also talk about two cryptos with great potential: XRP and Ethereum. We expand the meaning of the new trend: quiet quitting and how you can sabotage yourself by following this trend. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tallguytycoon/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tallguytycoon/support

New research from Digital Realty in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise reveals that nearly half (45%) of Irish organisations plan to migrate to a hybrid IT environment to leverage both on-premises systems and off-premises cloud/hosted resources. Findings reveal, however, a significant variance between enterprises headquartered in Ireland versus those in other countries (36% v 67%), showing Irish enterprises have been slower to adopt hybrid IT versus their international peers. The survey of 150 senior IT and business decision-makers, commissioned by Amárach Research, explored the opportunities and challenges that are driving enterprises from a cross-section of industries when it comes to digital and IT transformation. When asked what the biggest challenges their organisation faces, data management emerged as the most prevalent, with the key issues being identified as: Data security: 64 per cent of organisations identified data security as the main issue they would like to be addressed. Making better use of data: When managing data, nearly one in three (28%) of respondents said they grapple with the management of the ever-growing amounts of data within their organisation and over a third (36%) of organisations reported they would like to understand how to make better use of their data. Data regulation: Just under a quarter of the Irish enterprises surveyed (20%) want to more effectively manage evolving and diverse data regulation. Workload placement: Unlike the global shift away from storing data in owner-operated server rooms, many Irish enterprises continue to own and operate server rooms. Research shows, however, a significant (63%) reduction in the reliance of on-premises facilities over the next two years. “Irish businesses have rarely faced a more prolific time of immense challenges and constant change. From remote working to ongoing security concerns, and from supply chain issues to a proliferation of data; one thing remains true – security, including backup and recovery, is top of mind for Ireland's leading enterprises, be that IT security, data security or physical security. Add one more major consideration to this list in the form of connectivity – the demands associated with always-on data and self-service – the challenge for Irish enterprises is to modernise their IT offering in order to deliver for their business and staff, as well as for customers and clients,” said Séamus Dunne, Managing Director Digital Realty Ireland. With more than a half of respondents (54%) forecasting the total number of IT and business applications deployed by their organisation to grow anywhere from 11% – 50% in the next 12 months, and almost 40 percent (39%) of respondents stating that optimising connectivity at branch locations or employees working from home was a key network consideration; there has never been a more important time for Irish businesses to have the right IT infrastructure and ecosystem in place to scale and meet the changing demands of the current business environment. Lack of Skills Emphasises Importance of the Partner Ecosystem Alarmingly, just as the demands on IT infrastructure increases, another major revelation from the report showed that few organisations surveyed have the necessary resources or skills to meet future IT demands including security expertise (53%), compliance and governance (38%), and application transformation and redevelopment skills to support cloud migrations (28%). It comes as no surprise then that the research also showed that a third (31%) of Irish enterprises currently use systems integrators or managed hosting providers to manage their infrastructure. The ecosystem doesn't end there, with almost all the companies surveyed saying they rely on multiple software and hardware vendors, consultants, and cloud services providers to navigate their IT transformation journeys, with a fifth (21%) of companies stating they plan to use a data centre or colocation provider to support the depl...

US futures are indicating a higher open. European equity markets have opened weaker but have rallied from their bottoms, following broad weakness in Asia. The early attention is on the Fed meeting after it raised rates by 75-bps as expected. Powell's comments firmly reinforced the commitment to curbing inflation while acknowledging economic tolls in the process, and admitted that a soft landing scenario looks less certain. Companies mentioned: Digital Realty, Digital Core REIT, Credit Suisse

In today's podcast we talk about how Mt. Gox money and the MACD three day death cross are causing Bitcoin to go down. We also talk about Metaverse, Nvidia and Digital Realty Trust. We emphasize in the importance of understanding the market cycles and investing early. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tallguytycoon/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tallguytycoon/support

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Christian Koch, Founder and Editor at Foundations, a modern publication about digital infrastructure. He is a veteran leader in the digital infrastructure space having held several leadership and operational roles at companies such as Microsoft, Twitter, and Globix. Christian was most recently the Head of Interconnection Product at DataBank, and previously a Director of Product Management at Digital Realty and PacketFabric. In 2016, Christian Co-Founded the New York Network Operators Group, a non-profit organization that aims to connect network operators and technology professionals through educational events and programs.In this episode, Christian talks about how his interest in information and curiosity to learn about as much as he could, led him to become both a generalist and expert in the world of digital infrastructure. He explains the landscape of interconnectivity, including its history of development, current infrastructure, expansion, evolution, and use throughout the United States. Christian also delves into what he thinks edge is becoming, the different layers of networking, and how the cloud will become a primary infrastructure for workloads in the future. ---------Key Quotes:“Ethernet seems to be having this resurgence because it's probably the one technology that's is flexible as virtual machines in the cloud. You can basically scale it up and down. Whereas, you can go from a five gigabit ethernet circuit to a 10 gigabit ethernet circuit by issuing some configuration commands and making that change. Similar to how you can configure or reconfigure a virtual machine. Whereas, a wavelength isn't really like that, because it's all about dedicated connectivity. So if you think about ethernet share connectivity, that's what cloud computing is at the end of the day anyway; the shared infrastructure platform. So it makes it a little bit more flexible, and a little bit more easy to scale and deliver those services.”“I don't even like using the word edge anymore because, you know, because I think it really boils down to it's just a place like geographical place. Right? You know, it doesn't have to do with networks. It doesn't have to do with clouds. It didn't have to do with computing. It's just, you know, kind of the perimeter between almost like interconnection.”---------Show Timestamps:  (02:00) Getting Interested in Technology(04:30) Path to Networking and Interconnection(05:50) Explaining Interconnection(09:15) Backbone of Interconnectivity in the United States(15:43) Public versus Private Networks(18:45) Internet as a Fabric(21:06) Network as a Service(32:00) State of the Edge (37:30) Internet Trends(40:30) The Price of Shipping Data(44:00) Future Trends--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies - unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we're here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt on TwitterConnect with Christian on LinkedInFoundations Newsletterwww.CaspianStudios.com

As sustainability continues to become an increasingly important issue for data center owners and operators, many are tying their financing into ESG-related goals. The likes of Green Bonds see proceeds going towards specific green projects, while Sustainability-Linked Loans see interest payments tied to specific targets such as PUE or water use. Such financing options have been adopted by cloud and data center companies including Equinix, Digital Realty, Atos, Baidu, AirTrunk, and telcos such as Telefonica, NTT, and Verizon. US operator Aligned's whole debt pile – more than $3billion – is entirely made up of sustainable-tied financing. Aligned's VP of Finance, Matthew Chambliss discusses the company's reasoning and journey to adopting sustainable financing.

Our anchors start today's show breaking down the first half of the year for tech trading with Wall Street Journal markets reporter Gunjan Banerji and Neuberger Berman CIO of Global Research Strategies Hari Ramanan. Then, CNBC's Kate Rooney reports on the SEC rejecting crypto investment platform Grayscale's proposal to turn its Bitcoin fund into an ETF. Next, Bumble Founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd offers her thoughts on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and more, and Digital Realty CEO William Stern joins to respond to investor Jim Chanos' short on data center companies. Later, CNBC's Steve Kovach reports on the potential impact of China's Covid lockdowns on Apple's business, and our Julia Boorstin covers the features that will become available through the new Snapchat Plus subscription service.

There are certain individuals in this world who draw people and opportunities to them through some combination of attributes that include likeability, trustworthiness, community-mindedness, and an aptitude for leadership. TJ Ciccone, currently Vice President of Critical Operations for STACK Infrastructure, is one of these individuals. In this #NomadFuturist podcast, he shares with Phil and Nabeel a career trajectory that includes a five-year stint in the Navy as a nuclear engineer and ten years in retail starting with the overnight shift at Crown Petroleum and moving on to roles at Wawa and Target, prior to finding the data center industry. While at Wawa, Ciccone put himself through college. One of his regular customers was a District Manager for Target who wooed him away from Wawa. Ciccone eventually decided to get out of retail. He studied for the LSAT exam and won a scholarship to law school at Widener. Yet something unexpected happened.  “I was on my way to Widener and while I'm driving there, I got a phone call from my buddy Chris who was the Regional Manager for the Northeast for Digital Realty at the time. And he said, ‘Hey, how would you like to work in a data center?'” Ciccone fell in love with the data center industry. He started out as an engineering technician and had the good fortune to work for a great boss who he followed to three different facilities during the first seven years of his career. He then got the opportunity to move up to a director role at Coresite and ultimately was recruited by STACK Infrastructure. Ciccone emphasizes the importance of personal relationships. “People say it's all about who you know, but I like to say, it's all about who knows you.” Meanwhile Ciccone has now become a mentor to many.  “All of my best friends right now work in the data center industry. And a lot of them have even followed me from job to job.” He ascribes his success in the data center world to a combination of HR skills as well as the ability to develop a Method of Procedure (MOP) and execute it in the field.  Ciccone also teaches a data center program at Northern Virginia Community College. He shares how satisfying it is to see the impact that the course is having on the lives of students from diverse backgrounds. “In the first three and a half years of the program, we had approximately 45 students and close to 90% of them are working in the data center field right now!” He talks about the importance of leadership:   “Good leaders make such a big difference on a team. I am a firm believer that leaders are made, not born.” Given the dramatic growth in demand for critical infrastructure and the issue of so many resources “aging out,” Ciccone highlights the urgent need to bring more people into the data center industry and expresses his enthusiasm and commitment to opening opportunities for the next generation. His advice: “As you're looking for next opportunities, if you're good enough, especially in this industry, the opportunities will find you. You're going to build up your reputation and brand.”   TJ Ciccone is the Vice President of Critical Operations for STACK Infrastructure. Ciccone has over 12 years of data center management experience and a combined 18 years of involvement with critical facilities. Ciccone is also an adjunct professor for Northern Virginia Community College where he teaches the Introduction to Data Center Operations course.   From 1994 to 1999, Ciccone was enlisted in the US Navy where he qualified senior-in-rate, Chief Mechanical Operator, while serving onboard the USS Enterprise where he was responsible for the daily mechanical operations of the nuclear power plant. Ciccone successfully graduated Magna Cum Laude from Immaculata University in 2008 with a B.A. in Organizational Dynamics with an emphasis in Business Management.

Melissa Curran CEO and Founder of the Modern Mind Group is in Season 2 of the podcast which is all about Emotioneering Business Results. Her guest today is Charlie Oliver CEO and Founder of TECH 2025 Charlie's years of experience in the trenches of media include working in advertising in New York at such media goliaths as BBDO Worldwide and Condé Nast, to producing sitcoms and dramas at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks and Oscar-award winning indie production companies, to event management at the Sundance Film Festival. After spending several years in corporate law in document review at global firms (White & Case, Clifford Chance and Wachtel Lipton, to name a few), Charlie segued seamlessly into tech and new media as a web video producer where she co-created and co-produced experimental video projects such as an 8-hour live webathon for the 2008 presidential election and numerous web video series. Soon thereafter, Charlie launched ArtofTalk TV (a site that brought the vast world of tv, web and radio talk shows online to Users in bite-size video snippets of debates and interviews in social media). In 2009, Charlie launched Served Fresh Media™ (a New York-based company) where her team provides digital marketing strategy, event management, product development, and senior management advisory for companies. Clients Served Fresh Media has worked with include IBM, New York Press Club, Cognizant, Digital Flash, Digital Realty, Tierpoint, and It's About Time, among others. January 2017, Charlie launched Tech 2025 — a community and platform for professionals to learn about the next wave of disruptive, emerging technologies and to facilitate discourse about the impact of these technologies on society with an emphasis on problem-solving. Having produced over 80 events since they launched, coupled with providing professional services, Tech 2025 has quickly gained a reputation for helping professionals and companies to understand and embrace emerging technologies and the whirlwind changes they bring, and to strategize for the future impact of accelerating innovation. https://www.tech2025.com/ We are so excited to bring you this interview that is full of great leadership advice, insights and fun. We are thrilled that Charlie could join us for this conversation.   Welcome to the Emotioneering podcast - created by the Modern Mind Group - We are Emotioneering Human Performance, Not Engineering it!  People Operations & Performance Consultants - Helping your team emotioneer record-breaking results Coaching | Courses | Consultancy Also, an Accredited CPD Training Provider offering courses in Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Communication and Mental Health http://www.modernmindgroup.co.uk  

In this episode of Shift - I sit down with Charlie Oliver - Entrepreneur, Technologist, Futurist to talk about the future of organizations and talent, the role tech is playing, the gap between universities and the real world of work & the adversity of entrepreneurship. About Charlie: Charlie's years of experience in the trenches of media include working in advertising in New York at such media goliaths as BBDO Worldwide and Condé Nast, to producing sitcoms and dramas at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks and Oscar-award winning indie production companies, to event management at the Sundance Film Festival. After spending several years in corporate law in document review at global firms (White & Case, Clifford Chance and Wachtel Lipton, to name a few), Charlie segued seamlessly into tech and new media as a web video producer where she co-created and co-produced experimental video projects such as an 8-hour live webathon for the 2008 presidential election and numerous web video series. Soon thereafter, Charlie launched ArtofTalk.tv (a site that brought the vast world of tv, web and radio talk shows online to Users in bite-size video snippets of debates and interviews in social media). In 2009, Charlie launched Served Fresh Media™ (a New York-based company) where her team provides digital marketing strategy, event management, product development, and senior management advisory for companies. Clients Served Fresh Media has worked with include IBM, New York Press Club, Cognizant, Digital Flash, Digital Realty, Tierpoint, and It's About Time, among others. January 2017, Charlie launched Tech 2025 — a community and platform for professionals to learn about the next wave of disruptive, emerging technologies and to facilitate discourse about the impact of these technologies on society with an emphasis on problem-solving. Having produced over 80 events since they launched, coupled with providing professional services, Tech 2025 has quickly gained a reputation for helping professionals and companies to understand and embrace emerging technologies and the whirlwind changes they bring, and to strategize for the future impact of accelerating innovation. Personal Website: https://charlieoliver.co/ Company Website: https://www.tech2025.com/ About your host: Elena Agaragimova is the co-founder of Bessern (https://www.bessern.co/)

In the first episode of the Zero Downtime podcast, we sit down with Lex Coors, winner of DCD's 2021 Outstanding Contribution to the Industry award and Chief Data Center Technology & Engineering Officer for Interxion. We spoke to Lex about his two decades at the company, from the early days, to the rise of cloud, and the recent Digital Realty acquisition. We also discussed sustainability efforts, the European energy crisis, and how to ensure that local communities don't turn against data centers.

In der heutigen Folge „Alles auf Aktien“ berichten die Finanzjournalisten Daniel Eckert und Nando Sommerfeldt über die Gründe für die schlechte Stimmung an den Märkten, die Folgen der Inflation und leidende Wachstums-Champions. Außerdem geht es um HelloFresh, Symrise, Zalando, Puma, Delivery Hero, Bechtle, Jungheinrich, Auto1, Hypoport, Nemetschek, Bitcoin, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, Allianz, Volkswagen, Toyota, Google, Apple, AGNC, Duke Realty, Welltower, Avalon Bay, Digital Realty, American Tower, Thyssenkrupp. "Alles auf Aktien" ist der tägliche Börsen-Shot aus der WELT-Wirtschaftsredaktion. Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzjournalisten Holger Zschäpitz, Anja Ettel, Philipp Vetter, Daniel Eckert und Nando Sommerfeldt diskutieren im Wechsel über die wichtigsten News an den Märkten und das Finanzthema des Tages. Außerdem gibt es jeden Tag eine Inspiration, die das Leben leichter machen soll. In nur zehn Minuten geht es um alles, was man aktuell über Aktien, ETFs, Fonds und erfolgreiche Geldanlage wissen sollte. Für erfahrene Anleger und Neueinsteiger. Montag bis Freitag, ab 5 Uhr morgens. Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. Außerdem neu bei WELT: Im werktäglichen Podcast „Kick-off Politik - Das bringt der Tag“ geben wir Ihnen im Gespräch mit WELT-Experten die wichtigsten Hintergrundinformationen zu einem politischen Top-Thema des Tages. Mehr auf welt.de/kickoff und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt. +++Werbung+++ Hier geht's zur App: Scalable Capital ist der Broker mit Flatrate. Unbegrenzt Aktien traden und alle ETFs kostenlos besparen – für nur 2,99 € im Monat, ohne weitere Kosten. Und jetzt ab aufs Parkett, die Scalable App downloaden und loslegen. Hier geht's zur App: https://bit.ly/3abrHQm

We recently got the chance to sit down once again with Peter Jones, Chief Development Officer and founder at Yondr, and get his thoughts on the European data center industry. A Little Bit About Yondr and Pete For those unfamiliar, Yondr is a privately owned network provisioning company that offers modular data center designs: MicroBloc, MetroBloc, and HyperBloc. On one end of the spectrum is hyperscale, in the 10s to 100s of megawatts range. On the other end of the spectrum, tailored small scale deployments that help people enter new markets. Sometimes the small scale deployments are in places that have no colocation presence whatsoever. Yondr's presence spans over three continents, employing over 300 people and still hiring as quickly as possible. Peter started off as an electrical engineer on the design side, before transitioning into delivery management for Digital Realty during their big EU expansion from 2009 to 2011. From 2011 to 2018 he was part of Google's global infrastructure team, taking a year off in the middle to skipper a sailing yacht from the UK to New Zealand. In 4Q of 2018, he started Yondr with Dave Newitt and Miles Redding. They predicted an unprecedented level of network growth by the turn of the decade… but had no idea how much the pandemic would accelerate that need at a global level. 2021 has been a transformational year, with Yondr's headcount constantly on the rise, and client demands ramping up in both frequency and scope. The EU Data Center Services Scene We asked about some of the real time trends in the EU, having seen the vacancy rates in Europe's major data centers drop from 11.4% down to 7.5% over the last eight quarters. Peter noted that the drawdown in capacity was fated even before news of the pandemic started to spread. Additional capacity slowed down during the pandemic of course, and now there are either active or planned moratoriums on new builds in some of the five major markets. So, it's not surprising that those numbers are coming down. In the broader market, there's been an influx of new money, and thus new startups. But with no real pedigree amongst the new companies and a limited number of good locations to invest the available money, caution is at an all time high. Everyone knows that the need for bandwidth is there, but the trend in the late 2010s of failing projects and under deliveries is a specter that hangs over the industry. This is a temporary phenomenon in the EU. Eventually, the market will churn out winners and losers in the new industry startups, and those who execute successfully will be trusted with bigger investments and larger scale projects. There's an amazing level of persistence right now; an obsession that causes companies to stick with the big five regions and absorb every possible watt of power and cubic centimeter of space rather than expand into nearby suburbs. The level of tolerance for long lead times and high prices in these areas is at an absurd high. Sure, there are massive day one costs to break ground in a new place. But with prices skyrocketing in these major networking metros, something has to give eventually. Clients in the EU are looking for big tranches (of both power and bandwidth) right now, either to consolidate their fragmented network hosting portfolio or to avoid fragmentation in the future. This is where some clients are tempted to push outward, away from the overpopulated metro areas… as long as they're presented with a growth story they can really believe in.

In this podcast episode we chat with Greg Casey from Interxion about the most important trends for Irish data centres to watch in the near future, and some insights into how to effectively communicate what your business does well. Greg Casey Greg has over 35 years of experience in the IT/Software sector and brings over 35 years of experience working with global organisations, managing strategic technical projects and teams across global networks, Construction, Electrical & Mechanical Services, Safety and Quality Management Systems among other areas. Greg lives in Glasnevin, Dublin with his wife and one of his daughters, while his other daughter lives in Vancouver. Greg's hobbies include golf, cycling and aviation. Company Overview About Interxion, A Digital Realty Company Interxion, A Digital Realty Company, supports the world's leading enterprises and service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers a trusted foundation and proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for scaling digital business and efficiently managing data gravity challenges. Digital Realty's global data center footprint gives customers access to the connected communities that matter to them with 290 facilities in 47 metros across 24 countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

We talk with Tom Gorman to learn more about trends in collocation and sustainability initiatives taking place in Ireland Tom joined Interxion with over 29 years of experience working with global organisations, managing strategic technical projects and teams across global networks, Construction, Electrical & Mechanical Services, Safety and Quality Management Systems among other areas. More recently, Tom has spent the past 5 years working in Senior Operational roles within AWS Data Services, both in Ireland and Germany where he was responsible for developing & mentoring an Agile World Class Operations team tasked with delivering Operational Excellence across multiple regions. Interxion, A Digital Realty Company Interxion, A Digital Realty Company, supports the world's leading enterprises and service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers a trusted foundation and proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for scaling digital business and efficiently managing data gravity challenges. Digital Realty's global data center footprint gives customers access to the connected communities that matter to them with 290 facilities in 47 metros across 24 countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

This week we're talking about a different Billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, successfully voyaging to space with 5 Virgin Galactic employees just days ahead of Bezos. Brad's alma mater Brookfield entered a JV with Digital Realty to enter India and more. 

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About MikeBeside his duties as The Duckbill Group's CEO, Mike is the author of O'Reilly's Practical Monitoring, and previously wrote the Monitoring Weekly newsletter and hosted the Real World DevOps podcast. He was previously a DevOps Engineer for companies such as Taos Consulting, Peak Hosting, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and many more. Mike is originally from Knoxville, TN (Go Vols!) and currently resides in Portland, OR.Links: Software Engineering Daily podcast: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/all-episodes/exclusive-content/Podcast/ Duckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Thinkst. This is going to take a minute to explain, so bear with me. I linked against an early version of their tool, canarytokens.org in the very early days of my newsletter, and what it does is relatively simple and straightforward. It winds up embedding credentials, files, that sort of thing in various parts of your environment, wherever you want to; it gives you fake AWS API credentials, for example. And the only thing that these things do is alert you whenever someone attempts to use those things. It's an awesome approach. I've used something similar for years. Check them out. But wait, there's more. They also have an enterprise option that you should be very much aware of canary.tools. You can take a look at this, but what it does is it provides an enterprise approach to drive these things throughout your entire environment. You can get a physical device that hangs out on your network and impersonates whatever you want to. When it gets Nmap scanned, or someone attempts to log into it, or access files on it, you get instant alerts. It's awesome. If you don't do something like this, you're likely to find out that you've gotten breached, the hard way. Take a look at this. It's one of those few things that I look at and say, “Wow, that is an amazing idea. I love it.” That's canarytokens.org and canary.tools. The first one is free. The second one is enterprise-y. Take a look. I'm a big fan of this. More from them in the coming weeks.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Lumigo. If you've built anything from serverless, you know that if there's one thing that can be said universally about these applications, it's that it turns every outage into a murder mystery. Lumigo helps make sense of all of the various functions that wind up tying together to build applications. It offers one-click distributed tracing so you can effortlessly find and fix issues in your serverless and microservices environment. You've created more problems for yourself; make one of them go away. To learn more, visit lumigo.io.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by ChaosSearch. As basically everyone knows, trying to do log analytics at scale with an ELK stack is expensive, unstable, time-sucking, demeaning, and just basically all-around horrible. So why are you still doing it—or even thinking about it—when there's ChaosSearch? ChaosSearch is a fully managed scalable log analysis service that lets you add new workloads in minutes, and easily retain weeks, months, or years of data. With ChaosSearch you store, connect, and analyze and you're done. The data lives and stays within your S3 buckets, which means no managing servers, no data movement, and you can save up to 80 percent versus running an ELK stack the old-fashioned way. It's why companies like Equifax, HubSpot, Klarna, Alert Logic, and many more have all turned to ChaosSearch. So if you're tired of your ELK stacks falling over before it suffers, or of having your log analytics data retention squeezed by the cost, then try ChaosSearch today and tell them I sent you. To learn more, visit chaossearch.io.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. I spent the past week guest hosting the Software Engineering Daily podcast, taking listeners over there on a tour of the clouds. Each day, I picked a different cloud and had a guest talk to me about their experiences with that cloud.Now, there was one that we didn't talk about, and we're finishing up that tour here today on Screaming in the Cloud. That cloud is the obvious one, and that is your own crappy data center. And my guest is Duckbill Group's CEO and my business partner, Mike Julian. Mike, thanks for joining me.Mike: Hi, Corey. Thanks for having me back.Corey: So, I frequently say that I started my career as a grumpy Unix sysadmin. Because it isn't like there's a second kind of Unix sysadmin you're going to see. And you were in that same boat. You and I both have extensive experience working in data centers. And it's easy sitting here on the tech coast of the United States—we're each in tech hubs cities—and we look around and yeah, the customers we talked to have massive cloud presences; everything we do is in cloud, it's easy to fall into the trap of believing that data centers are a thing of yesteryear. Are they?Mike: [laugh]. Absolutely not. I mean, our own customers have tons of stuff in data centers. There are still companies out there like Equinix, and CoreSite, and DRC—is that them? I forget the name of them.Corey: DRT. Digital Realty [unintelligible 00:01:54].Mike: Digital Realty. Yeah. These are companies still making money hand over fist. People are still putting new workloads into data centers, so yeah, we're kind of stuck with him for a while.Corey: What's fun is when I talked to my friends over in the data center sales part of the world, I have to admit, I went into those conversations early on with more than my own fair share of arrogance. And it was, “[laugh]. So, who are you selling to these days?” And the answer was, “Everyone, fool.” Because they are.People at large companies with existing data center footprints are not generally doing fire sales of their data centers, and one thing that we learned about cloud bills here at The Duckbill Group is that they only ever tend to go up with time. That's going to be the case when we start talking about data centers as well. The difference there is that it's not just an API call away to lease more space, put in some racks, buy some servers, get them racked. So, my question for you is, if we sit here and do the Hacker News—also known as the worst website on the internet—and take their first principles approach to everything, does that mean the people who are building out data centers are somehow doing it wrong? Did they miss a transformation somewhere?Mike: No, I don't think they're doing it wrong. I think there's still a lot of value in having data centers and having that sort of skill set. I do think the future is in cloud infrastructure, though. And whether that's a public cloud, or private cloud, or something like that, I think we're getting increasingly away from building on top of bare metal, just because it's so inefficient to do. So yeah, I think at some point—and I feel like we've been saying this for years that, “Oh, no, everyone's missed the boat,” and here we are saying it yet again, like, “Oh, no. Everyone's missing the boat.” You know, at some point, the boat's going to frickin' leave.Corey: From my perspective, there are advantages to data centers. And we can go through those to some degree, but let's start at the beginning. Origin stories are always useful. What's your experience working in data centers?Mike: [laugh]. Oh, boy. Most of my career has been in data centers. And in fact, one interesting tidbit is that, despite running a company that is built on AWS consulting, I didn't start using AWS myself until 2015. So, as of this recording, it's 2021 now, so that means six years ago is when I first started AWS.And before that, it was all in data centers. So, some of my most interesting stuff in the data center world was from Oak Ridge National Lab where we had hundreds of thousands of square feet of data center floor space across, like, three floors. And it was insane, just the amount of data center stuff going on there. A whole bunch of HPC, a whole bunch of just random racks of bullshit. So, it's pretty interesting stuff.I think probably the most really interesting bit I've worked on was when I was at a now-defunct company, Peak Hosting, where we had to figure out how to spin up a data center without having anyone at the data center, as in, there was no one there to do the spin up. And that led into interesting problems, like you have multiple racks of equipment, like, thousands of servers just showed up on the loading dock. Someone's got to rack them, but from that point, it all has to be automatic. So, how do you bootstrap entire racks of systems from nothing with no one physically there to start a bootstrap process? And that led us to build some just truly horrific stuff. And thank God that's someone else's problem, now. [laugh].Corey: It makes you wonder if under the hood at all these cloud providers if they have something that's a lot cleaner, and more efficient, and perfect, or if it's a whole bunch of Perl tied together with bash and hope, like we always built.Mike: You know what? I have to imagine that even at AWS at a—I know if this is true at Facebook, where they have a massive data center footprint as well—there is a lot of work that goes into the bootstrap process, and a lot of these companies are building their own hardware to facilitate making that bootstrap process easier. When you're trying to bootstrap, say, like, Dell or HP servers, the management cards only take you so far. And a lot of the stuff that we had to do was working around bugs in the HP management cards, or the Dell DRACs.Corey: Or you can wind up going with some budget whitebox service. I mean, Supermicro is popular, not that they're ultra-low budget. But yeah, you can effectively build your own. And that leads down interesting paths, too. I feel like there's a sweet spot where working on a data center and doing a build-out makes sense for certain companies.If you're trying to build out some proof of concept, yeah, do it in the cloud; you don't have to wait eight weeks and spend thousands of dollars; you can prove it out right now and spend a total of something like 17 cents to figure out if it's going to work or not. And if it does, then proceed from there, if not shut it down, and here's a quarter; keep the change. With data centers, a lot more planning winds up being involved. And is there a cutover at which point it makes sense to evacuate from a public cloud into a physical data center?Mike: You know, I don't really think so. This came up on a recent Twitter Spaces that you and I did around, at what point does it really make sense to be hybrid, or to be all-in on data center? I made the argument that a large-scale HPC does not fit cloud workloads, and someone made a comment that, like, “What is large-scale?” And to me, large-scale was always, like—so Oak Ridge was—or is famous—for having supercomputing, and they have largely been in the top five supercomputers in the world for quite some time. A supercomputer of that size is tens of thousands of cores. And they're running pretty much constant because of how expensive that stuff is to get time on. And that sort of thing would be just astronomically expensive in a cloud. But how many of those are there really?Corey: Yeah, if you're an AWS account manager listening to this and reaching out with, “No, that's not true. After committed spend, we'll wind up giving you significant discounts, and a whole bunch of credits, and jump through all these hoops.” And, yeah, I know, you'll give me a bunch of short-term contractual stuff that's bounded for a number of years, but there's no guarantee that stuff gets renewed at that rate. And let's face it. If you're running those kinds of workloads today, and already have the staff and tooling and processes that embrace that, maybe ripping all that out in a cloud migration where there's no clear business value derived isn't the best plan.Mike: Right. So, while there is a lot of large-scale HPC infrastructure that I don't think particularly fits well on the cloud, there's not a lot of that. There's just not that many massive HPC deployments out there. Which means that pretty much everything below that threshold could be a candidate for cloud workloads, and probably would be much better. One of the things that I noticed at Oak Ridge was that we had a whole bunch of SGI HPC systems laying around, and 90% of the time they were idle.And those things were not cheap when they were bought, and at the time, they're basically worth nothing. But they were idle most of the time, but when they were needed, they're there, and they do a great job of it. With AWS and GCP and Azure HPC offerings, that's a pretty good fit. Just migrate that whole thing over because it'll cost you less than buying a new one. But if I'm going to migrate Titan or Gaia from Oak Ridge over to there, yeah, some AWS rep is about to have a very nice field day. That'd just be too much money.Corey: Well, I'd be remiss as a cloud economist if I didn't point out that you can do this stuff super efficiently in someone else's AWS account.Mike: [laugh]. Yes.Corey: There's also the staffing question where if you're a large blue-chip company, you've been around for enough decades that you tend to have some revenue to risk, where you have existing processes and everything is existing in an on-prem environment, as much as we love to tell stories about the cloud being awesome, and the capability increase and the rest, yadda, yadda, yadda, there has to be a business case behind moving to the cloud, and it will knock some nebulous percentage off of your TCO—because lies, damned lies, and TCO analyses are sort of the way of the world—great. That's not exciting to most strategic-level execs. At least as I see the world. Given you are one of those strategic level execs, do you agree? Am I lacking nuance here?Mike: No, I pretty much agree. Doing a data center migration, you got to have a reason to do it. We have a lot of clients that are still running in data centers as well, and they don't move because the math doesn't make sense. And even when you start factoring in all the gains from productivity that they might get—and I stress the word might here—even when you factor those in, even when you factor in all the support and credits that Amazon might give them, it still doesn't make enough sense. So, they're still in data centers because that's where they should be for the time because that's what the finances say. And I'm kind of hard-pressed to disagree with them.Corey: While we're here playing ‘ask an exec,' I'm going to go for another one here. It's my belief that any cloud provider that charges a penny for professional services, or managed services, or any form of migration tooling or offering at all to their customers is missing the plot. Clearly, since they all tend to do this, I'm wrong somewhere. But I don't see how am I wrong or are they?Mike: Yeah, I don't know. I'd have to think about that one some more.Corey: It's an interesting point because it's—Mike: It is.Corey: —it's easy to think of this as, “Oh, yeah. You should absolutely pay people to migrate in because the whole point of cloud is that it's kind of sticky.” The biggest indicator of a big cloud bill this month is a slightly smaller one last month. And once people wind up migrating into a cloud, they tend not to leave despite all of their protestations to the contrary about multi-cloud, hybrid, et cetera, et cetera. And that becomes an interesting problem.It becomes an area—there's a whole bunch of vendors that are very deeply niched into that. It's clear that the industry as a whole thinks that migrating from data centers to cloud is going to be a boom industry for the next three decades. I don't think they're wrong.Mike: Yeah, I don't think they're wrong either. I think there's a very long tail of companies with massive footprint staying in a data center that at some point is going to get out of a data center.Corey: For those listeners who are fortunate enough not to have to come up the way that we did. Can you describe what a data center is like inside?Mike: Oh, God.Corey: What is a data center? People have these mythic ideas from television and movies, and I don't know, maybe some Backstreet Boys music video; I don't know where it all comes from. What is a data center like? What does it do?Mike: I've been in many of these over my life, and I think they really fall into two groups. One is the one managed by a professional data center manager. And those tend to be sterile environments. Like, that's the best way to describe it. They are white, filled with black racks. Everything is absolutely immaculate. There is no trash or other debris on the floor. Everything is just perfect. And it is freezingly cold.Corey: Oh, yeah. So, you're in a data center for any length of time, bring a jacket. And the soulless part of it, too, is that it's well-lit with fluorescent lights everywhere—Mike: Oh yeah.Corey: —and it's never blinking, never changing. There are no windows. Time loses all meaning. And it's strange to think about this because you don't walk in and think, “What is that racket?” But there's 10,000, 100,000 however many fans spinning all the time. It is super loud. It can clear 120 decibels in there, but it's a white noise so you don't necessarily hear it. Hearing protection is important there.Mike: When I was at Oak Ridge, we had—all of our data centers, we had a professional data center manager, so everything was absolutely pristine. And to get into any of the data centers, you had to go through a training; it was very simple training, but just, like, “These are things you do and don't do in the data center.” And when you walked in, you had to put in earplugs immediately before you walked in the door. And it's so loud just because of that, and you don't really notice it because you can walk in without earplugs and, like, “Oh, it's loud, but it's fine.” And then you leave a couple hours later and your ears are ringing. So, it's a weird experience.Corey: It's awful. I started wearing earplugs every time I went in, just because it's not just the pain because hearing loss doesn't always manifest that way. It's, I would get tired much more quickly.Mike: Oh, yeah.Corey: I would not be as sharp. It was, “What is this? Why am I so fatigued?” It's noise.Mike: Yeah. And having to remember to grab your jacket when you head down to the data center, even though it's 95 degrees outside.Corey: At some point, if you're there enough—which you probably shouldn't be—you start looking at ways to wind up storing one locally. I feel like there could be some company that makes an absolute killing by renting out parkas at data centers.Mike: Yeah, totally. The other group of data center stuff that I generally run into is the exact opposite of that. And it's basically someone has shoved a couple racks in somewhere and they just kind of hope for the best.Corey: The basement. The closet. The hold of a boat, with one particular client we work with.Mike: Yeah. That was an interesting one. So, we had a—Corey and I had a client where they had all their infrastructure in the basement of a boat. And we're [laugh] not even kidding. It's literally in the basement of a boat.Corey: Below the waterline.Mike: Yeah below the waterline. So, there was a lot of planning around, like, what if the hold gets breached? And like, who has to plan for that sort of thing? [laugh]. It was a weird experience.Corey: It turns out that was—was hilarious about that was while they were doing their cloud migration into AWS, their account manager wasn't the most senior account manager because, at that point, it was a small account, but they still stuck to their standard talking points about TCO, and better durability, and the rest, and it didn't really occur to them to come back with a, what if the boat sinks? Which is the obvious reason to move out of that quote-unquote, “data center?”Mike: Yeah. It was a wild experience. So, that latter group of just everything's an absolute wreck, like, everything—it's just so much of a pain to work with, and you find yourself wanting to clean it up. Like, install new racks, do new cabling, put in a totally new floor so you're not standing on concrete. You want to do all this work to it, and then you realize that you're just putting lipstick on a pig; it's still going to be a dirty old data center at the end of the day, no matter how much work you do to it. And you're still running on the same crappy hardware you had, you're still running on the same frustrating deployment process you've been working on, and everything still sucks, despite it looking good.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by ChaosSearch. As basically everyone knows, trying to do log analytics at scale with an ELK stack is expensive, unstable, time-sucking, demeaning, and just basically all-around horrible. So why are you still doing it—or even thinking about it—when there's ChaosSearch? ChaosSearch is a fully managed scalable log analysis service that lets you add new workloads in minutes, and easily retain weeks, months, or years of data. With ChaosSearch you store, connect, and analyze and you're done. The data lives and stays within your S3 buckets, which means no managing servers, no data movement, and you can save up to 80 percent versus running an ELK stack the old-fashioned way. It's why companies like Equifax, HubSpot, Klarna, Alert Logic, and many more have all turned to ChaosSearch. So if you're tired of your ELK stacks falling over before it suffers, or of having your log analytics data retention squeezed by the cost, then try ChaosSearch today and tell them I sent you. To learn more, visit chaossearch.io.Corey: The worst part is playing the ‘what is different here?' Game. You rack twelve servers: eleven come up fine and the twelfth doesn't.Mike: [laugh].Corey: It sounds like, okay, how hard could it be? Days. It can take days. In a cloud environment, you have one weird instance. Cool, you terminate it and start a new one and life goes on whereas, in a data center, you generally can't send back a $5,000 piece of hardware willy nilly, and you certainly can't do it same-day, so let's figure out what the problem is.Is that some sub-component in the system? Is it a dodgy cable? Is it, potentially, a dodgy switch port? Is there something going on with that node? Was there something weird about the way the install was done if you reimage the thing? Et cetera, et cetera. And it leads down rabbit holes super quickly.Mike: People that grew up in the era of computing that Corey and I did, you start learning tips and tricks, and they sound kind of silly these days, but things like, you never create your own cables. Even though both of us still remember how to wire a Cat 5 cable, we don't.Corey: My fingers started throbbing when you said that because some memories never fade.Mike: Right. You don't. Like, if you're working in a data center, you're buying premade cables because they've been tested professionally by high-end machines.Corey: And you still don't trust it. You have a relatively inexpensive cable tester in the data center, and when—I learned this when I was racking stuff the second time, it adds a bit of time, but every cable that we took out of the packaging before we plugged it in, and we tested on the cable tester just to remove that problem. And it still doesn't catch everything because, welcome to the world of intermittent cables that are marginal that, when you bend a certain way, stop working, and then when you look at them, start working again properly. Yes, it's as maddening as it sounds.Mike: Yeah. And then things like rack nuts. My fingers hurt just thinking about it.Corey: Think of them as nuts that bolts wind up screwing into but they're square and they have clips on them so they clip into the standard rack cabinets, so you can screw equipment into them. There are different sizes of them, and of course, they're not compatible with one another. And you have—they always pinch your finger and make you bleed because they're incredibly annoying to put in and out. Some vendors have quick rails, which are way nicer, but networking equipment is still stuck in the ‘90s in that context, and there's always something that winds up causing problems.Mike: If you were particularly lucky, the rack nuts that you had were pliable enough that you could pinch them and pull them out with your fingers, and hopefully didn't do too much damage. If you were particularly unlucky, you had to reach for a screwdriver to try to pry it out, and inevitably stab yourself.Corey: Or sometimes pulling it out with your fingers, it'll—like, those edges are sharp. It's not the most high-quality steel in some cases, and it's just you wind up having these problems. Oh, one other thing you learn super quickly, is first, always have a set of tools there because the one you need is the one you don't have, and the most valuable tool you'll have is a pair of wire cutters. And what you do when you find a bad cable is you cut it before throwing it away.Mike: Yep.Corey: Because otherwise someone who is very well-meaning but you will think of them as the freaking devil, will, “Oh, there's a perfectly good cable sitting here in the trash. I'll put it back with the spares.” So you think you have a failed cable you grab another one from the pile of spares—remember, this is two in the morning, invariably, and you're not thinking on all cylinders—and the problem is still there. Cut the cable when you throw it away.Mike: So, there are entire books that were written about these sorts of tips and tricks that everyone working [with 00:19:34] data center just remembers. They learned it all. And most of the stuff is completely moot now. Like, no one really thinks about it anymore. Some people are brought up in computing in such a way that they never even learned these things, which I think it's fantastic.Corey: Oh, I don't wish this on anyone. This used to be a prerequisite skill for anyone who called themselves a systems administrator, but I am astonished when I talk to my AWS friends, the remarkably senior engineers I talk to who have never been inside of an AWS data center.Mike: Yeah, absolutely.Corey: That's really cool. It also means you're completely divorced from the thing you're doing with code and the rest, and the thing that winds up keeping the hardware going. It also leads to a bit of a dichotomy where the people racking the hardware, in many cases, don't understand the workloads that are on there because if you have the programming insight, and ability, and can make those applications work effectively, you're probably going to go find a role that compensates far better than working in the data center.Mike: I [laugh] want to talk about supply chains. So, when you build a data center, you start planning about—let's say, I'm not Amazon. I'm just, like, any random company—and I want to put my stuff into a data center. If I'm going to lease someone else's data center—which you absolutely should—we're looking at about a 180-day lead time. And it's like, why? Like, that's a long time. What's—Corey: It takes that long to sign a real estate lease?Mike: Yeah.Corey: No. It takes that long to sign a real estate lease, wind up talking to your upstream provider, getting them to go ahead and run the thing—effectively—getting the hardware ordered and shipped in the right time window, doing the actual build-out once everything is in place, and I'm sure a few other things I'm missing.Mike: Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, you have all these things that have to happen, and all of them pay for-freaking-ever. Getting Windstream on the phone to begin with, to even take your call, can often take weeks at a time. And then to get them to actually put an order for you, and then do the turnup. The turnup alone might be 90 days, where I'm just, “Hey, I've bought bandwidth from you, and I just need you to come out and connect the [BLEEP] cables,” might be 90 days for them to do it.And that's ridiculous. But then you also have the hardware vendors. If you're ordering hardware from Dell, and you're like, “Hey, I need a couple servers.” Like, “Great. They'll be there next week.” Instead, if you're saying, “Hey, I need 500 servers,” they're like, “Ooh, uh, next year, maybe.” And this is even pre-pandemic sort of thing because they don't have all these sitting around.So, for you to get a large number of servers quickly, it's just not a thing that's possible. So, a lot of companies would have to buy well ahead of what they thought their needs would be, so they'd have massive amounts of unused capacity. Just racks upon racks of systems sitting there turned off, waiting for when they're needed, just because of the ordering lead time.Corey: That's what auto-scaling looks like in those environments because you need to have that stuff ready to go. If you have a sudden inrush of demand, you have to be able to scale up with things that are already racked, provisioned, and good to go. Sometimes you can have them halfway provisioned because you don't know what kind of system they're going to need to be in many cases, but that's some up-the-stack level thinking. And again, finding failed hard drives and swapping those out, make sure you pull the right or you just destroyed an array. And all these things that I just make Amazon's problem.It's kind of fun to look back at this and realize that we would get annoyed then with support tickets that took three weeks to get resolved in hardware, whereas now three hours in you and I are complaining about the slow responsiveness of the cloud vendor.Mike: Yeah, the amount of quick turnaround that we can have these days on cloud infrastructure that was just unthinkable, running in data centers. We don't run out of bandwidth now. Like, that's just not a concern that anyone has. But when you're running in a data center, and, “Oh, yeah. I've got an OC-3 line connected here. That's only going to get me”—Corey: Which is something like—what is an OC-3? That's something like, what, 20 gigabit, or—Mike: Yeah, something like that. It's—Corey: Don't quote me on that.Mike: Yeah. So, we're going to have to look that up. So, it's equivalent to a T-3, so I think that's a 45 megabit?Corey: Yeah, that sounds about reasonable, yeah.Mike: So, you've got a T-3 line sitting here in your data center. Like that's not terrible. And if you start maxing that out, well, you're maxed out. You need more? Again, we're back to the 90 to 180 day lead time to get new bandwidth.So, sucks to be you, which means you'd have to start planning your bandwidth ahead of time. And this is why we had issues like companies getting Slashdotted back in the day because when you capped the bandwidth out, well, you're capped out. That's it. That's the game.Corey: Now, you've made the front page of Slashdot, a bunch of people visited your site, and the site fell over. That was sort of the way of the world. CDNs weren't really a thing. Cloud wasn't a thing. And that was just, okay, you'd bookmark the thing and try and remember to check it later.We talked about bandwidth constraints. One thing that I think the cloud providers do—at least the tier ones—that are just basically magic is full line rate between any two instances almost always. Well, remember, you have a bunch of different racks, and at the top of every rack, there's usually a switch called—because we're bad at naming things—top-of-rack switches. And just because everything that you have plugged in can get one gigabit to that switch—or 10 gigabit or whatever it happens to be—there is a constraint in that top-of-rack switch. So yeah, one server can talk to another one in a different rack at one gigabit, but then you have 20 different servers in each rack all trying to do something like that and you start hitting constraints.You do not see that in the public cloud environments; it is subsumed away, you don't have to think about that level of nonsense. You just complain about what feels like the egregious data transfer charge.Mike: Right. Yeah. It was always frustrating when you had to order nice high-end switching gear from Cisco, or Arista, or take your pick of provider, and you got 48 ports in the top-of-rack, you got 48 servers all wired up to them—or 24 because we want redundancy on that—and that should be a gigabit for each connection, except when you start maxing it out, no, it's nowhere even near that because the switch can't handle it. And it's absolutely magical, that the cloud provider's like, “Oh, yeah. Of course, we handle that.”Corey: And you don't have to think about it at all. One other use case that I did want to hit because I know we'll get letters if we don't, where it does make sense to build out a data center, even today, is if you have regulatory requirements around data residency. And there's no cloud vendor in an area that suits. This generally does not apply to the United States, but there are a lot of countries that have data residency laws that do not yet have a cloud provider of their choice region, located in-country.Mike: Yeah, I'll agree with that, but I think that's a short-lived problem.Corey: In the fullness of time, there'll be regions everywhere. Every build—a chicken in every pot and an AWS availability zone on every corner.Mike: [laugh]. Yeah, I think it's going to be a fairly short-lived problem, which actually reminds me of even our clients that have data centers are often treating the data center as a cloud. So, a lot of them are using your favorite technology, Corey, Kubernetes, and they're treating Kubernetes as a cloud, running Kube in AWS, as well, and moving workloads between the two Kube clusters. And to them, a data center is actually not really data center; it's just a private cloud. I think that pattern works really well if you have a need to have a physical data center.Corey: And then they start doing a hybrid environment where they start expanding to a public cloud, but then they treat that cloud like just a place to run a bunch of VMs, which is expensive, and it solves a whole host of problems that we've already talked about. Like, we're bad at replacing hard drives, or our data center is located on a corner where people love to get drunk on the weekends and smash into the power pole and take out half of the racks here. Things like that great, yeah, cloud can solve that, but cloud could do a lot more. You're effectively worsening your cloud experience to improve your data center experience.Mike: Right. So, even when you have that approach, the piece of feedback that we give the client was, you have built such a thing where you have to cater to the lowest common denominator, which is the constraints that you have in the data center, which means you're not able to use AWS the way that you should be able to use it so it's just as expensive to run as a data center was. If they were to get rid of the data center, then the cloud would actually become cheaper for them and they would get more benefits from using it. So, that's kind of a business decision for how they've structured it, and I can't really fault them for it, but there are definitely some downsides to the approach.Corey: Mike, thank you so much for joining me here. If people want to learn more about what you're up to, where can they find you?Mike: You know, you can find me at duckbillgroup.com, and actually, you can also find Corey at duckbillgroup.com. We help companies lower their AWS bills. So, if you have a horrifying bill, you should chat.Corey: Mike, thank you so much for taking the time to join me here.Mike: Thanks for having me.Corey: Mike Julian, CEO of The Duckbill Group and my business partner. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice and then challenge me to a cable-making competition.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. 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Welcome to The Tech Capital's 60 Seconds daily news brief with your host, João Marques Lima. It's Thursday, June 10, 2021, and these are your top headlines for today: -In Singapore, Digital Realty is reportedly considering an IPO of a trust that could raise $300 to $400 million; -Over in Saudi Arabia, Al Moammar Information Systems has signed a binding MoU with Saudi Fransi Capital to establish a private investment fund that will have the objective of developing, owning, and operating data centres; -And Colony Capital, Inc. has announced a corporate rebranding of the company to DigitalBridge. You can find more headlines on our website www.thetechcapital.com and don't forget to subscribe and share this episode. We'll meet again tomorrow, for more headlines from the definitive digital infrastructure new house, The Tech Capital. You Lead. We Report.

In the latest episode of the Digital Centre podcast, Omer Wilson talks with Digital Realty’s Country Head for South Korea Jay Weon Khym around the state of the Korean Data Centre and Digital Transformation market. Jay shares insights around the impact of 5G, IoT and AI on the Korean economy, what some of the biggest challenges and opportunities for Korean organisations are, and what will the rest of 2021 hold for the data centre industry. Data Centre 4.0: The future of the Digital Ecosystem In this podcast series from Digital Centre, Data Centre Leader expert and APAC-based Marketer, Omer Wilson will be in conversation with Technology and Industry Experts on the future of the data centre. Today’s tech-fuelled transformation era is putting traditional data centres under unprecedented pressure. This pressure is coming from businesses, users and consumers – from every physical, virtual and cloud-centric angle. What does the future hold for the data centre? Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified of episodes as they come out hbspt.forms.create({ portalId: "495642", formId: "45860c48-a146-4a35-bf1a-e1b5849dfb62" });

What will tech look like in 2025? This week we are joined by the amazing Charlie Oliver CEO and founder of the incredible platform Tech2025. We get deep into voice recognition, the effect of technology on children and Charlie shares her journey of founding Tech2025 and why it was so important to her. Twitter: @itscomplicated LinkedIn: Charlie Oliver Bio: Charlie’s years of experience in the trenches of old media include working in advertising in New York at such media goliaths as BBDO Worldwide and Condé Nast, to producing sitcoms and dramas at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks and Oscar-award winning indie production companies, to event management at the Sundance Film Festival. After spending several years in corporate law in document review at global firms (White & Case, Clifford Chance and Wachtel Lipton, to name a few), Charlie segued seamlessly into tech and new media as a web video producer where she co-created and co-produced experimental video projects such as an 8-hour live webathon for the 2008 presidential election and numerous web video series. Soon thereafter, Charlie launched ArtofTalk.tv (a site that brought the vast world of tv, web and radio talk shows online to Users in bite-size video snippets of debates and interviews in social media). I n 2009, Charlie launched Served Fresh Media™ (a New York-based company) where her team provides digital marketing strategy, event management, product development, and senior management advisory for companies. Clients Served Fresh Media has worked with include IBM, New York Press Club, Cognizant, Digital Flash, Digital Realty, Tierpoint, and It’s About Time, among others. In January 2017, Charlie launched Tech 2025 — a community and platform for professionals to learn about the next wave of disruptive, emerging technologies and to facilitate discourse about the impact of these technologies on society with an emphasis on problem-solving. Having produced over 80 events since they launched, coupled with providing professional services, Tech 2025 has quickly gained a reputation for helping professionals and companies to understand and embrace emerging technologies and the whirlwind changes they bring, and to strategize for the future impact of accelerating innovation. 

In this episode of The Digital Digest, we round up the biggest stories of the week from Digital Realty's data centre sales to the latest on the UK's national fibre network plans. Bringing us the latest on data centres, Abigail explains why Digital Realty is selling 11 European facilities and why Cisco is launching a new facility in Frankfurt. Meanwhile in Latin America IBMhas expanded its cloud footprint, and DRFortresshas completed the expansion of its data centre over the ocean in Hawaii. In telecoms, Natalie covers the news that Nokiais to cut 10,000 jobs in the next two years while over in Canada, Rogers Communications is paying $26 billion for Shaw Communications. At sea, MasTec has acquired a stake in Confluence, the Florida-based developer of subsea cable systems, and down under FEPL unveiled Project Koete, its $1.5 billion technology ecosystem in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Alan brings us the full details on British regulator Ofcom's plans to advance the country's fibre roll out, while AFR-IXhas named Mombasa as its fourth African connection point. Rounding off the episode, Alan explains why quantum physics is going to be the next big thing in telecoms following the launches of Quantum Loophole and ColdQuanta We also discuss the 2021 Power 100, which you can find out more about here, as well as the upcoming Digital Infra Africa and Capacity Middle East. And don't forget the latest edition of Capacity magazine is available online here. Season 2, episode 10 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.

In this weeks episode I am joined by Andrew Schaap, CEO at Aligned. Andrew has had a highly successful career in the data center industry and he is now the leader of one of the most exciting and cutting edge infrastructure technology organisations in the US.We discuss how Andrew started his career in real estate and how a hiring freeze resulted in him starting his own software company. We then discuss how Andrew entered the data center industry and how he developed a highly successful career within Digital Realty before making the move to Aligned.Finally we discuss Aligned and the great work they are doing in the industry. We discuss the technology solutions they have introduced, the focus on scalability and sustainability, the Aligned DNA, and how people are at the centre of everything they do.  We also touch on Andrew's role as a STEM mentor and the importance of sharing our knowledge to develop the next generation of talent within the data centre industry.Andrew is an engaging leader who is passionate about the data center industry. It is a great listen!

Rich Miller sits down with Chris Crosby, the CEO of Compass Datacenters, for a wide-ranging conversation about the latest trends in the data center sector. Chris is an industry veteran who was in on the ground floor of the data center boom in working with CoreSite, Digital Realty and now Compass. The conversation explores demand trends from edge to cloud, where new data centers are being built, and why a data center developer has a research and development unit.  Here's a timeline of topics Rich Miller and Chris Crosby discuss on the podcast: 4:00 - Demand for edge computing, and where we are on the growth curve. 6:39 - How Compass approaches client-centric data center design and construction 9:55 - Why Compass has a Research & Development division (most developers don't), and why it matters. 20:35 - The primacy of the network 22:45 - Data center site selection, and how Compass has been early in identifying cloud computing hubs 25:20 - "Availability Zone Thinking" and how resiliency designs guide where data centers are built 26:30 - Investors love the data center industry. Chris discusses the benefits of patient capital. Here are some stories at Data Center Frontier that provide additional information about items Chris and Rich discuss. Making Concrete Greener: Addressing Cement's Carbon Problem https://datacenterfrontier.com/making-concrete-greener-addressing-cements-carbon-problem/ Compass Scales Up for Growth in Top Hyperscale Markets https://datacenterfrontier.com/compass-scales-up-for-growth-in-top-hyperscale-markets Compass EdgePoint Sees Opportunity in Building Better Networks https://datacenterfrontier.com/compass-edgepoint-sees-opportunity-in-building-better-networks/ Be sure to subscribe!

In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from the residential network that carried 400Gbps, to the sandwich-sized satellites tracking whales. First up, the ITW Global Leaders' Forum has published a Code of Conduct, defining a framework among global carriers providing IPX-based traffic, to ensure quality of service for critical IoT applications. Next, Natalie brings us the story behind FiBrazil, Brazil's new wholesale network provider and India's new payment network built by Reliance, Google and Facebook. Meanwhile, in the UK Virgin Media is testing technology that can deliver 400Gbps on a residential fibre network and in Egypt, an almost heart-shaped subsea project is connecting Africa in new ways. In the world of data centres, Abigail shares the details on Cologix's new Ohio data centre, while NetActuatehas finalised the upgrade of its Johannesburg hub and Equinix Metal has revealed its global expansion plans. And in other news, Digital Realty has snapped up the IP and engineering muscle of Pureport. Alan explains why Bill Barney set up Turbiditeand why Digital Colony paid $854 million for Boingo Wireless. Meanwhile, Swarm's IoT in space got 12 new satellites this week which, technically, could be used to track whales, and according to SpaceX and Samsung Austin, Texas, is the new place to be. We also look ahead to Digital Infra India, taking place online 9-10 March, and Natalie brings us a preview of what's coming up for International Women's Day, including a special feature looking at why equity needs to be part of the equality conversation. Season 2, episode 8 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.

We sat down with Digital Realty CFO Andy Power and Giuliano Di Vitantonio, EVP of Strategy & Business Segments, to get their take on recent European data center market growth. Check out our episode above with Andy Power and Giuliano Di Vitantonio of Digital Realty to get their take on the state of the European markets. Or if you're short on time, check out the summary of the conversation below. Secondary European markets experiencing healthy growth When evaluating demand patterns in European data center markets, it's usually a safe bet to analyze trends in North America because those changes typically follow in Europe 18-24 months later. Initially these trends start in the FLAPD markets and then cascade into the secondary markets across Europe. The largest trend the European markets have seen over the past 6-7 years has been the demand growth from hyperscale users. Starting in 2014, hyperscale users began to establish their presence in the FLAPD markets and now we're seeing those users want to get closer to their end-users. Data sovereignty and improving the customer experience are the two main reasons hyperscale users are expanding in Europe which is why we've seen growth in markets like Madrid, Zurich, Stockholm, and Vienna. Increasing emphasis on global maturity As the data center industry continues to mature markets in North America continue to grow. But recently other markets around the globe, specifically in Europe, have been growing at a faster rate than the larger North American markets. One reason for this is the US-based multinational hyperscale companies wanting to expand and ramp up their growth closer to their international users. The tech divide between North America and Europe The US has consistently had a lower GDP than Europe by more than 100%. But because the US has been an early adopter and investor in the tech space, Europe's tech spend has been about 75% of that in the states. To take that even further and more specific to data centers, Europe has invested about 50% of what the US has on data centers and IT infrastructure. These figures indicate there is still room for growth in the European data center industry. Which is another reason the growth in the European markets has been at a higher percentage rate than the US growth recently. We'll continue to track Digital Realty as they continue to grow across the globe. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date on the data center industry.

In this episode, Mattias Fridström and Christian Koch, Director Product Management at Digital Realty and co-founder of NYNOG discuss what is needed for full IPv6 adoption, how 5G is affecting the Edge and where this will ultimately be, and how to build a better Internet. 

In this episode, Mattias Fridström and Christian Koch, Director Product Management at Digital Realty and co-founder of NYNOG discuss the state of Internet, the trust-based Internet model, the role of IX points, if Internet connectivity is a commodity, and sustainability in the networking industry. 

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If you're short on time, below are some of our thoughts from the above video. 2021 Overview Based on the conversations we at datacenterHawk have had with people in the data center industry, we feel as though 2021 will be a solid year for the market. Ultimately a lot of the growth will depend on larger hyperscale deals being completed, but those companies are looking to add to their footprint all across Northern America and the world. The hyperscale companies that are going to be responsible for the majority of the growth in the industry are looking for flexible deals with data center operators. It's not just about turn-key capacity anymore. Powered shell and build-to-suit developments are becoming more common. We feel confident that the demand seen in 2020 will continue at least through the first half of 2021. The persistence of the impact of COVID19 as well as the continued growth of secular tailwinds already in place pre-COVID may drive demand through the entirety of 2021. Enterprise demand in 2021 In 2020, enterprise demand was a bit on the lower end than we expected. We think that it will increase in 2021 from where it was in 2020. Many companies delayed IT projects to focus on supporting their employees as they began to work from home. Additionally, financial constraints further constrained directors ability to get funds for IT projects. We believe that even if the COVID pandemic is not fully solved, it has at least stabilized such that these companies will look to reboot in 2021 and start working on previously-shelved IT projects. How will the edge grow in 2021 In 2020 we saw edge-focused partnerships between large data center operators and smaller companies, such as Flexential and American Tower, Digital Realty and Vapor IO, Switch and FedEx. While the edge is still very nascent, these partnerships point to the increasing focus it is becoming among large, traditionally core data center operators. These companies believe there will be a more spread out infrastructure approach with higher demand moving forward. We see these data center operators are positioning themselves to handle that demand when it comes. Expect additional operators to enhance their edge capabilities through new product development or acquisition in 2021. If you enjoyed this and want to stay up to date with the latest information in the data center industry be sure to sign up for the datacenterHawk newsletter here: https://lp.datacenterhawk.com/stay-up-to-date

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Colocation is leasing digital infrastructure from a data center operator. On this podcast, David and Mike go over the second of eight topics on data center fundamentals. We covered this in a blog series as well as an email course. Today, we answer the question “What is colocation?” and discuss some of the defining characteristics of this aspect of the data center industry. What is colocation? One option of having digital infrastructure is to build and operate your own data center, but this is mainly for large scale data center users. Colocation offers the option of leasing data center power and space from a data center provider. Colocation leases can range in size from several servers to an entire data center. Data center providers prefer to structure leases in different ways depending on user needs and lease size. Leases of 50 kilowatts (kW) and less Smaller footprints are usually all-in leases, where the user pays a set price per month with little variation. The price includes both the rental rate and power cost. Leases of 50 kW – 5 megawatts (MW) These leases are often Gross + Electric, where the user pays a set price per kW of data center infrastructure they lease per month, plus the cost of the power they use. Leases of 5 MW and higher Larger leases are often Triple Net (NNN), meaning the user pays the provider to use the space, but manages a larger portion of the operations and utilities themselves. Benefits of colocation vs on-premise data centers 1. Save on outsourcing specialized skill sets Data center operation requires a level of expertise that many companies often lack. While it's possible for companies to develop a staff to fill this role, it's often faster, less expensive, and more efficient to outsource the requirement. Data center providers are experts in colocation and can provide specialized solutions that best fit their customer's needs. 2. Increased flexibility Because IT strategy can change quickly, companies value fluidity with their data center infrastructure. A company's data center may fit their needs today, but could be inefficient later. Colocating provides flexibility and helps users avoid getting stuck in a solution that doesn't fit their needs. 3. Cost savings from provider's scale Data center providers are experts in designing and building data centers and often do it in a more cost-efficient manner. Large providers can also leverage their size to lower construction and power costs, and these lower costs are passed on to the user, creating lower operating expenses than owning the data center themselves. 4. Ease of customization Data center providers offer a variety of services to meet their users' needs. They can also use their scale to attract third-party service providers, which creates a valuable ecosystem hard for single users to replicate. 5. More fiber connections A colocation data center often has stronger fiber infrastructure and easier access to cloud service providers, giving users low latency to their cloud environments and the end-customer. 6. Easier path for growth Growing your data center presence is easier with a data center provider. The relationship between a user and data center provider is typically seen as a long-term partnership. Should a company need a data center in a new market, they can often deploy infrastructure in their provider's facility in that region. Providers like Digital Realty, Equinix, and CyrusOne report the vast majority of their customers have deployments in more than one of their data centers and many in more than one country.

In this episode, the Data Economy and Capacity editorial team explore the latest on just how much Vodafone relies on Huawei to run its European business; data centre giants Equinix and Digital Realty continue to expand and so does Iceland's Verne Global amid roaring demand for HPC; T-Mobile offers 5G in Alaska through GCI partnership; and… has the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the “lack of equitable growth” in UK tech? The newsroom also addresses the recent events taking place in the US, after George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died on the 25th May after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes as he screamed: "I can't breathe". Featuring editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Melanie Mingas and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman. Subscribe free to the publications on: Data Economy: www.data-economy.com/subscribe Capacity: www.capacitymedia.com/sign-up

Quelques jours après l'annonce du rachat acté par les actionnaires de l'européen Interxion par l'américain Digital Realty, Fabrice Coquio, Directeur général d'Interxion France, commente pour nous l'opération. A commencer par rappeler qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un rachat mais d'une fusion... 

Seconde partie de l'interview que nous a accordé Fabrice Coquio, Directeur général d'Interxion France, après l'après Covid-19, l'entreprise du groupe Digital Realty a annoncé le début de la construction du projet Interxion Paris Digital Park, qui sera "le plus grand datacenter d'Europe". Le nouveau site proposera une puissance disponible pour les clients allant jusqu'à 85 mégawatts et accueillera 4 data centers, pour un total d'environ 40 000 mètres carrés d'espace équipé.

Join the conversation as David and Corey dive into the data center industry and some of Digital Realty's strategic decisions. Great talk with a ton of info to take away from it. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. ------ Thank you for watching this video. I am appreciative of your thoughts and comments - and thankful for the opportunity to serve the industry through datacenterHawk. ------ Learn more about the data center industry and receive insight to US and European markets at https://www.datacenterhawk.com ------ For more exclusive content with data center professionals, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/datacenterHawk?sub_confirmation=1 ------ Receive the latest information on US and now European data center markets by staying in touch with us here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacenterhawk_/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidliggitt/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/9488532/admin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/d_liggitt Twitter: https://twitter.com/datacenterhawk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datacenterhawk/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/datacenterhawk

Our 12 in 12 Podcast series showcases 12 People Professionals from a wide range of backgrounds as they share their HR story with our podcast host Lucinda in just 12 minutes (or as close to)! Each week in December the podcast will cover 3 of these conversations. Therefore, read on to find out who Lucinda will be speaking with in this week's episode… Introducing our first guest, Ian Ruddy People Professional: Ian Ruddy, Vice President of Human Resources, EMEA for Digital Realty Ian leads the HR team for EMEA helping Digital Realty scale their business in the region. Digital Realty help power the digital ambitions and the data centre, colocation and interconnection strategies of more than 2,000 organisations. These businesses are spread out across North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia. Digital Realty customers include companies of all sizes, ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and consumer products. Moreover, Ian has over 25 years of HR experience in the high tech and digital services sector operating at CEO and board level, helping businesses scale and transform. In addition, he has worked for Honeywell, Siemens, Cisco Systems, Telefónica, Criteo and cxLoyalty. Furthermore, Ian is a graduate from the University of Essex and with postgraduate studies completed at the LSE. He has also undertaken leadership programmes at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Universitas Telefónica, Barcelona. Key Information: Connect with Ian Ruddy on Linkedin Digital Realty Website Welcoming our second guest, Helen Gilfillan People Professional: Helen Gilfillan, Director of HR Dept Helen currently works as the Director of the HR Dept. The HR Dept offers local and personal service with practical support and pragmatic advice to suit business requirements. Therefore, as a Human Resources professional covering Bishops Stortford, Halstead, and the surrounding areas, Helen has the ability to offer a complete outsourced HR service tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized businesses. Certainly, support can be anything from a single employment contract to taking on all of your HR requirements with our 'Advice Line' Service. Services also available are Payroll, Health, and Safety, E-Learning, Training, and Employee Assistance programmes. Moreover, Helen has over 30 years HR experience employed within industry in the various sectors including Manufacturing, Service industry, retail and the public sector operating as HR Director at board level, helping businesses enhance performance and grow aligned to corporate strategy. Furthermore, Helen has worked for Lancaster Garages, Tyco Electronics, Ralston Purina, Flakt Woods, and Essex Police and started her own business in March this year. Our guest Helen is also a CIPD and Masters graduate from the Anglia Ruskin University. In addition, she is a Certified Practitioner for Thomas International's Personal Profile Analysis (PPA). Key Information: Connect with Helen Gilfillan on Linkedin Connect on Twitter: @hgilfillanhr Email: helen.gilfillan@hrdept.co.uk Mobile: 07443 672963 Telephone: 03452 081 293 HR Dept Website Rounding off this episode, our guest Lucy Barclay-Carr People Professional: Lucy Barclay-Carr, Director of HR, Finance & Operations for MacGregor Healthcare Lucy currently works as the HR, Finance and Operations Director within MacGregor Healthcare. However, she started working life as a Diagnostic Radiographer with a specialty in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ultrasound. Consequently, moving into a more entrepreneurial commercial world by co-founding MacGregor Healthcare Ltd in 2010. Along with her business partners, Lucy has developed an international medical device manufacturing, sales, and clinical education company that is seen as the centre of excellence for product development, education, and service within the bowel and bladder care sector. Certainly, Lucy has a natural attribute for financial figures. Her real drive, however, falls in the HR element of her role – she is about to complete CIPD level 7 HRM and an accredited Insights Discovery Practitioner this year. Key Information: Connect with Lucy Barclay-Carr on Linkedin Email: lhc@macgregorhealthcare.com Mobile: 07584 064 274 Telephone: 0845 519 20 40 MacGregor Healthcare Website Valuable Resources You can access additional free HR Resources via the Actus Software website link below. Lucinda Carney is the founder and CEO of Actus Software: https://actus.co.uk/free-performance-management-resources/ About The Host Lucinda Carney is a Business Psychologist with 15 years in Senior Corporate L&D roles and a further 10 as CEO of Actus Software where she worked closely with HR colleagues helping them to solve the same challenges across a huge range of industries. Therefore, it was this breadth of experience that inspired Lucinda to set up the HR Uprising community to facilitate greater collaboration across HR professionals in different sectors, helping them to ‘rise up' together. "When we look up we rise up” Contact Method Join the HR Uprising LinkedIn community - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/ Email: Lucinda@advancechange.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/ Twitter: @lucindacarney Instagram: @hruprising Facebook: @hruprising YouTube: Channel See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our sixth episode, we discuss three recent articles; A New Front in the Cloud Wars; Digital Realty's Interxion Deal ‘Doesn't Close the Gap' and Digital Realty Charts Course to Becoming a ‘Platform Company'. Episode 7 coming 28/11/19 Cloud Wars, Equinix vs Digital Realty and Becoming a Platform Company - The Data Podcast

In our fifth episode, we discuss three recent articles; AWS suffers DDoS attack stifling Internet traffic; Microsoft's JEDI Win May Open ‘Floodgates' For Cloud Growth and Digital Realty chucks $8.4bn at Interxion for colocation mega-merger Episode 6 coming 21/11/19 AWS gets hacked, Microsoft vs AWS and Digital Realty buys Interxion - The Data Podcast

Everyone's talking about data center merger mania. In this episode, host Rich Miller talks about two deals, one that happened and one that didn't. The deal that happened is Digital Realty's acquisition of European colocation and interconnection provider, Interxion for $8.4 billion.  He will cover the important strategic factors that make this deal a win for Digital. There's also the deal that didn't happen -- involving CyrusOne, one of the largest wholesalers in the data center business. In its earnings call, CyrusOne has decided to remain independent. Both of these deals have strategic implications for the data center industry.

Bill Stein, CEO of Digital Realty, one of the largest data center real estate companies in the world, entered the data center space just as the cloud was born.“We are fortunately right at the middle of all of this, we are at the heart of this revolution.”Pennsylvania and PrincetonBill grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, where relationships, friendship, family, and sports (specifically football) mattered above all else. He attended boarding school in Philadelphia, Princeton for his B.A. in the classics, and the University of Pittsburgh for law school.After working for his father's law firm as an insurance defense litigator, he joined Duquesne Light Company as a lawyer and then Assistant Treasurer, and then Westinghouse Credit and Westinghouse Electric where he tackled deals before and during the S&L crisis.In 1994, Bill moved to San Francisco to work with one of his previous clients at Westinghouse, TriNet Corporate Realty Trust which was soon sold to iStar Financial Inc. He went on to serve as co-head of Venture Bank @PNC (a technology lending business) at PNC Bank in Pittsburgh with a satellite office in San Francisco.Building Digital RealtyBill joined GI Partners (Digital Realty's predecessor private equity fund) in 2004 as the CFO and Chief Investment Officer of Digital Realty Trust and helped GI's data center portfolio go public as Digital Realty.First, Digital Realty began expanding globally, acquiring properties in Europe and Asia. Their business was mainly leasing large chunks of space to financial institutions and technology companies until they bought Telex, an interconnection business which is crucial for data centers.Balancing Tech and Real EstateIn the beginning, Digital Realty was an asset-focused business, but now it is much more customer-focused. There are a lot of real estate details in their relationships with their customers, however, the service level obligations they offer would not be found in a typical real estate firm.“What we provide is a secure space, and we provide access to power. We provide connectivity. We provide power redundancy. So if power lines go down… we have initially batteries in our data centers that kick on to keep the servers running until the generators kick in.”Bill explains that their tenants, including Amazon and Microsoft, are quite loyal and secure because it's an expensive proposition to leave. Digital Realty's global footprint, trust, and certainty of delivery give them a tremendous competitive advantage as their customers are confident knowing they can expand their current campus if necessary.The FutureThe Internet of Things, sensors in your home, an Amazon device that controls your lights or searches the internet for you, motion detectors, autonomous driving, virtual reality, artificial intelligence… Data centers are crucial to the ecosystem of the technological advances happening now and in the future.“Innovation here is trying to figure out where the puck is headed, and get there before the puck gets there.”AdviceDon't be afraid to take educated risks, be open to new opportunities, and value transparency, integrity, ethics, and relationships. You never know when a friendship might matter.

Listen to this podcast interview with the CEO of Digital Realty Trust, Bill Stein. He discusses his career and the growth of Digital Realty Trust from its IPO in 2004 to becoming one of the best-performing and fastest-growing REITs. Digital Realty is now a $22 billion company, operates across five continents globally and is the 9th -largest REIT.

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The Data Center Podcast featuring Bill Stein, CEO of Digital Realty Trust

Aaron Binkley of Digital Realty Trust discuss the points of emphasis in the company's sustainability program, including efforts to decrease its water consumption.