Last Day for Early Bird Registration 7x24 Exchange Spring Conference

I am going to 7x24 Exchange Spring and today is the last day for early bird registration. http://conferences.7x24exchange.org/spring15/

For a short time I was debating whether I should go.  I've gone for 4 years and 2 conferences per year.  Chatting with a data center executive who has attended just as many he was debating as well,  after a quick discussion we both agreed we are returning.

One of my data center friends who now works for Uptime Institute originally suggested I attend 7x24 Exchange years ago. Of course at the time he didn't work for Uptime.  Am I going to Uptime? No.  Am I hosting a party next week?  No.  Honestly Uptime Institute and 451 Research doesn't come up in any of my discussions.  So why would I go.

As one of my friends pointed out the Data Center industry organizations are like religions.  AFCOM/Data Center World, Data Center Dynamics, Gartner Data Center World, 7x24 Exchange.  And like religions they appeal to people for different reasons.  I've been to all of them.  And I favor 7x24 Exchange.  They are consistently growing while everyone else is shrinking as the overall data center ecosystem shrinks.

The data center ecosystem is shrinking?  Yes.  It is.

Even as it shrinks there are some that are holding steady. 7x24 Exchange a non-profit is doing fine.

Google's Joe Kava presenting at 7x24 Exchange chapter event, Mar 6, 2015, Hillsboro, OR

Google's Joe Kava, VP of data centers is presenting at 7x24 Exchange's Chapter Meeting in Oregon at Intel's Jones Farm Campus in Hillsboro on Friday,  Mar 6th 2015 at 10a.  The link to the event is here. http://www.7x24exchange.org/Oregon-Chapter/news+events.php.  If you are interested in attending contact Keith Knight.  keith.knight@oregon-electric.com

Google's first owned data center is in Oregon. http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/the-dalles/

“Google is proud to call Oregon home to Google’s first owned and operated data center.

We opened our data center at The Dalles in 2006—investing $1.2 billion in the facility and establishing a long-term commitment to the region and state. Now a fully operational site, we’ve created over 80 full-time jobs on site, and we work hard to support the communities in which our employees live and work.”



What content gets presented at Analyst hosted events

Here is an observation.  What is the characteristic of content presented at a conference run by an analyst company?  Out of all the ideas out there that could be discussed and presented at a conference you could create two groupings, one those that the analysts think they can make money on and the other ideas they don’t make money on.  Oh, there is a third group, those ideas that not only don’t make money for the analyst company, they disrupt their business model. 

What will be presented at the conference?  Yep, those ideas that they make money on.  I have way more fun discussing those ideas that are disruptive, and figuring out how to make money with those ideas.  Don’t analyst present disruptions?  Yes, after they have figured out how they will make money from the disruption.