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I’ve been coordinating with some other friends who will be at 7x24 Exchange Boca. So, many of my data center friends are there and we are planning when we’ll have time to chat business and catch up.
FYI, tomorrow is last day for early bird registration.
The data center industry has seen changes and the media world shifts as well. Recent LinkedIn updates show DatacenterKnowledge has a new editor in chief.
Yevgeniy Sverdlik has a new job. Now Editor in Chief at Data Center Knowledge. Say congrats
Rich Miller has a new job. Now Editor at Large at Data Center Knowledge.
Matt Stansberry used to work for Tech Target, and is now with Uptime.
Kevin Heslin used to work for Mission Critical, and is now with Uptime.
DatacenterKnowledge is part of the iNet Interactive company which includes AFCOM and Data Center World.
AFCOM
AFCOM is the leading association supporting the educational and professional development needs of data center professionals around the globe. Established in 1980, AFCOM currently boasts more than 4,500 member data centers and 40 chapters worldwide, and provides data center professionals with unique networking opportunities and educational forums and resources through its bi-annual Data Center World Conferences, published magazines, regional chapters, research and hotline services, and industry alliances.
DATA CENTER KNOWLEDGE
Since 2005, Data Center Knowledge has provided senior IT and operations professionals, who build and manage data centers, daily news and analysis about the industry. It covers the latest developments and trends driving the powerful growth in demand for mission-critical facilities, the challenges and opportunities presented by high-density computing and its impact on power and cooling, and the evolution of the industry to include cloud computing and modular data centers.
DATA CENTER WORLD
Data Center World, operated by AFCOM, is the industry’s premier networking and educational conference. Thousands of data center and facility management professionals, from many of the largest corporations, government organizations, and academic institutions in the world attend Data Center World to share, discuss and learn about the latest data center products, trends, technologies, and best practices.
Uptime Institute has research, publications, and events. Uptime is owned by 451 Group.
Gartner has its research, publications and events.
The big three in data center media are iNet Interactive vs. 451/Uptime vs. Gartner competing for advertisers dollars who spend money on publications, research, and events.
This is my fifth year of going to Steve Manos’s infamous data center social at PURE nightclub, and this Tues was the annual event in LV. Steve has created the premier data center industry social event where some of the exceptional people in the industry get together.
Steve Manos's data center socials have been going on for years and each one gets better and better.
Here is a picture from one of the early Data Center Socials with Steve and Mike Manos.
Updating the classic Steve Manos and Katie O’Hara picture. FYI, this is the only time I took a picture with Steve and Katie’s permission.
Here is Steve and Katie from the event 3 years ago.
What is improving the data center industry is people realizing socializing with your peers has many benefits, and yet many times going to conferences doesn’t work for socializing. Don’t think friends are important. Check this out.
Good Friends Are Good for You
They might get on your nerves at times, but good friends have bigger benefits than you may realize."You got to have friends to make that day last long," sings Bette Midler. But good friends may help your life last longer, too, according to an Australian study. Conducted by the Centre for Ageing Studies at Flinders University, the study followed nearly 1,500 older people for 10 years. It found that those who had a large network of friends outlived those with the fewest friends by 22%.
Why is this so? The authors suspect that good friends discourage unhealthy behaviors such as smoking and heavy drinking. And the companionship provided by friends may ward off depression, boost self-esteem, and provide support. Also, as people age, they may become more selective in their choice of friends, so they spend more time with people they like.
These events couldn’t happen without the support of sponsors. This year’s sponsor were.
Also a special thanks for Mandy Modic for playing the role of Kristy Rivetts, the person who contacted all the attendees when they arrived in LV, made sure they had the logistics information and the commemorative event coin. There were other subtle tweaks in the event that made the event better than prior years. Do you say that about the data center events you go to?
I think this will be the fifth GigaOm Structure I am attending. People ask if I am going to any of the data center conferences and the only ones I consistently attend are 7x24 and DCD. Why? Because I find spending two days at GigaOm Structure are more forward thinking. I might be a speaker/moderator at the conference, and will be there helping out the staff.
So who is speaking at the next event? GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham posts on 5 big ideas and 5 big speakers.
The first one, even though it names one, Google’s Urs Hoelzle, also mentions Facebook and Microsoft.
1. An application that lives in every time zone
Over the years Google has driven the technology behind distributed computing with technologies such as Map Reduce and Spanner. It is clearly thinking about how to build applications that aren’t isolated in one data center or even one time zone. This type of distributed thinking is behind its latest networking investments and is why Urs Hölzle, SVP Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow, is speaking at the Structure. But we’re also bringing in others who understand these problems including Facebook’s Jay Parikh and Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie.
Urs Hölzle
The list goes on and you read the rest of the five. Here is a conference schedule if you want to see the rest of the speakers.
Disclosure: I work freelance part time for GigaOm Research and many of the staff are my friends.
7x24 Exchange Spring 2014 Conference is open for registration.
What is a bit of a surprise is John Sculley is keynoting the conference with the following talk.
Conference Keynote:
The High Tech Tsunami that is Changing the World
Three explosive high technologies, Cloud, Internet-of-Things, and Unstructured Data Science are converging at an amazing pace. Their derivative effects will be that every major industry will be disrupted, reshaped or even reinvented. Sculley will explain how companies like Amazon are combining exceptional customer experience, disruptive price, and same day delivery by taking advantage of advanced high technology supply chain systems. New business models like Amazon don't require a large number of higher skilled middle mangers that more traditional companies depend on. Sculley will discuss the possibility of middle managers becoming an endangered group as heavy lifting robots are joined by smart robots and the Internet-of-Things. How can corporations adapt to this fast changing world? John Sculley has an unique position as a leader in disruptive high technologies, a global investor and successful entrepreneur who is mentoring CEOs in his own companies in the fields of: the consumer era of healthcare; next generation mobile technologies; IT supply chain; and big data analytics. John will draw on examples from his current experience in the US and South Asia.
John Sculley
Former CEO of Apple and Former President of Pepsi Cola
I checked out the schedule and there are some good talks on the list.
I am curious though what John Sculley will present especially since John is presenting on topics that I spend time on - Cloud, IOT, and Big Data. I haven’t talked to John since I think 1995 when I was at Microsoft and had a trip to NYC and was working on publishing technologies. It’s so long ago I can’t remember what John and I talked about or how the meeting got set up. All I know I remember is I was in NYC and had 1/2 hr meeting with John. John Sculley was at Apple 1983 - 1993. I was at Apple from 1985 - 1992.
According to wikipedia John now lives in West Palm Beach. At least he has a short commute to the conference in Boca Raton.
