Spotting the Lies in the Data Center, Liespotting ideas

If you said you were trying to find the lies in the data center to make it greener, people will think you are strange.  If you asked someone to spot the lies in the data center, most would say we have a high availability with security systems that prevent thieves.  But, what few think about is lying is ingrained in human behavior.  How so, consider this post on workplace deception.

5 Surprising Truths About Workplace Deception

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“Honesty is the best policy.” Sounds so old-fashioned, doesn’t it?

In today’s workplace, honesty isn’t always the first choice for business conduct. Fudging the truth is awfully tempting, no matter where you sit in the chain of command. From cooking the books to fibbing on resumes to having a co-worker “punch out” for you, there are a thousand ways people engage in deception at work.

Here are the top five lies in the workplace.

• 1. More than 80% of college undergraduates will lie in an attempt to get a job.
• 2. You will be lied to on the first day of your new job—within the first 10 minutes!
  
• 3 Phone calls are nearly 3x as likely to contain lies as emails.
  
• 4. People are significantly more likely to lie to coworkers than to strangers.
  
• 5. When the stakes are high, a negotiator will almost always lie if given the opportunity.
  

REI's Summer 2012 Environmental Defense Fund Fellowship, includes Energy Efficient Data Centers

REI has a job posting for a Summer Intern.

REI has a opening for our summer 2012 EDF (Environmental Defense Fund) Climate Corps Fellowship. This temporary assignment is expected to commence in mid May and conclude in late August, 2012.
Hours: Monday – Friday, 30-40 hours (flexible).

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to support REI’s Corporate Social Responsibility Program (CSR) and REI’s cross-divisional Energy Team as a participant in EDF’s Climate Corps program.

Recruiting Processes:
In order to work for REI through EDF Climate Corps, you must apply individually to REI. If you are concurrently applying through EDF to be considered for other company placements, please inform both parties in writing via email to ekocherovsky@edf.org and ccannon@rei.com

I was totally surprised that data centers get mentioned.

As an EDF Climate Corps Fellow, you will be matched with a leading company to serve as an energy efficiency change agent. EDF provides the following training and resources throughout your summer:

• 3-day training in energy efficiency strategies for commercial buildings and data centers.
• EDF Climate Corps Handbook
• Summer Call series with experts on topics relevant to fellow workplans.
• Fellow check-in calls facilitated by EDF to share best practices
• Access to online forums, collaboration tools, EDF experts, and up-to-date energy efficiency resources
• A network of current and future sustainability leaders across sectors and regions that will last beyond the summer

If you know of a college student studying in sustainability, here is a job they should consider.

This role will include technical, environmental, and financial analysis. This intern will contribute to a fast-paced, smoothly-run organization by utilizing effective communication, teamwork, organizational skills, accuracy, creativity, and productivity. Responsibilities require independence and judgment while providing operational, administrative, and project support with a minimum of direction, as well as performing associated duties as assigned by the CSR Manager. Intern is expected to use their knowledge of sustainable business principles to guide their work and communication with colleagues. Relationships: The Intern reports to the CSR Manager and will also work with the cross-divisional Energy Team.

CIO and Supply Chain Expertise = Dell's New CIO

Being a CIO is typically equated with managing information systems which typically has people who have technology backgrounds.  Another way to look at IT as a flow of information which can optimized like a supply chain logistics.  One guy who is supply chain expert is Frank Frankovsky at Facebook who is ex-Dell.

Speaking of Dell, Dell's new CIO has a supply chain expertise from GM.

Adriana Karaboutis, recruited in March 2010, is the new global CIO and reports directly to Brian Gladden, Dell's CFO. She was previously vice president of global operations and technology IT, which means she was responsible for Dell's supply chain, procurement, and product development systems.

Dell CIO Adriana Karaboutis

Prior to coming to Dell, Karaboutis was global manufacturing and labor information officer at General Motors, which means she was responsible for all of the systems that are used for car assembly and parts stamping. Before that, she was in charge of GM's purchasing and supply chain systems.

Karaboutis spent six years at GM, and before that,15 at the Ford Motor Company, starting out as a programmer/analyst and rising up through the ranks to run manufacturing, supply chain, purchasing and finance systems.

The official Dell press release is here.

Dell announced today that Adriana Karaboutis has assumed the role of Global Chief Information Officer, responsible for continuing to drive Dell’s IT organization evolution, from managing an efficient and innovative global information infrastructure, to creating innovative breakthroughs that provide technology advances for the company and its customers.

Ms. Karaboutis was previously vice president of IT at Dell supporting product groups, manufacturing, procurement and supply chain operations. In her experience at Dell, she has led a transformation of Dell’s manufacturing operations, rolling out a new manufacturing execution system globally. She also led the roll out of Dell’s consolidated product offering system, which simplified the supply chain by reducing the number of product configurations, a critical part of the company’s cost-reduction efforts. In addition, she has helped Dell’s newly acquired companies transition quickly and smoothly to Dell’s operations.

CIO's view of the Data Center, a 2006 perspective from Lars Rabbe at Yahoo

I wrote a blog post on Lars Rabbe back in Nov. 2011

Data Center Thought Leadership, accumulated by companies or people?

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011 AT 8:44AM

DatacenterKnowledge just posted on the Yahoo Factor in data centers referring to Kevin Timmons, Lars Rabbe, Scott Noteboom, and Tom Furlong.

But, after spending the past 3 days chatting with the current Data Center Thought Leadership who were at 7x24 Exchange, I think we would have all had a good laugh.  Scott Noteboom is not part of this crowd as once you walk into Apple, you disappear from the data center crowd.  Kevin Timmons escaped this situation and is now CTO of Cyrus One and was busy meeting and greeting at 7x24.  Tom Furlong was circulating after his presentation on the Open Compute Project and Facebook's data centers.  Lars Rabbe is busy flying around the world between Estonia, Palo Alto (Skype bldg), and Redmond (Microsoft HQ).

For your public consumption i found this 2006 ZDNet CIO video where Lars discusses how data centers need to be built differently.

In the transcript which has some character set mapping issues (apostrophes) are lots of mentions of data centers.

LARS RABBE:

How people react to the products and what makes a better product in terms of what is it that appeals to people inside the product and how the product interacts with you. On the side of data center innovation we are really working on expanding, let’s say, the processing footprint worldwide. We’re at the point now where the data center industry has really been left behind by the growth of the internet companies and we, along with other companies, are now building our own data centers. And we’re taking the opportunity while we’re building these data centers to really think about “is the conventional data center really what fits our needs�, and it turns out in a lot of areas that it really doesn’t, that we can do things much better if we design our own data center from the ground up. We’d recently broke ground on a data center in the Pacific Northwest and we’re going to be applying a bunch of new technologies there, some of which we’re actually inventing ourselves in terms of how do you put together the data center, how do you take best advantage of the power because that is one of the biggest issues when you are running a data center. The cost of power, so saving power is a big deal.

DAN FARBER:

Of course.

Yeh!!! a CIO that talks power efficient data centers.

LARS RABBE:

And, in general we’ve got to save power. So the ability to make a much more power efficient data center is what will make a big difference.

DAN FARBER:

Now it seems that every company that’s reaching large scale is building new data centers and building them more efficiently in the areas where the cost of electricity is much cheaper. But it seems to me that that’s an opportunity for shared innovation as opposed to each company doing it on its own and inventing its own kinds of innovations to drive those data centers. Do you see that as a possibility?

Here is one of the best comments.

LARS RABBE:

I think there are some competitive advantages in some of this and there are certainly some of these things that we will patent because we consider them to be significantly different. But I also agree that if we come up with ideas that as such will make the industry more power efficient we absolutely will share those and we are using the same contractors also. I’m sure those contractors in turn will leverage those ideas for future construction and future concepts of data centers.

The Green Data Center idea was discussed back in 2006 by Lars.  How is that for Thought Leadership?

New President, David Schirmacher and VP, Cyrus Izzo of 7x24 Exchange

7x24 Exchange has made some management changes with David Schirmacher as President and Cyrus Izzo as Vice President.

David Schirmacher updated his LinkedIn profile with his new position as President of 7x24 Exchange.  Congratulations David.

1^st Account HolderDavid Schirmacher

Senior Vice President at Digital Realty

Greater New York City Area

Real Estate

Current

• Senior Vice President, Technical Operations at Digital Realty
• President at 7x24 Exchange International

Past

• Chief Strategy Officer at FieldView Solutions, Inc
• VP, Global Head of Engineering and Critical Systems at Goldman Sachs

I think David is a bit more excited than Cyrus.  Cyrus's LinkedIn hasn't been updated yet.  :-)

2^ndCyrus J. Izzo,PE

Co-President , Syska Hennessy Group

Greater New York City Area

Real Estate

Current

• Co-President at Syska Hennessy Group

Past

• Project Manager/Project Engineer at Ammann & Whitney Consulting Engineers, Inc.

Here is the complete board of 7x24 Exchange.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chairman of the Board Robert J. Cassiliano Business Information Services 732-410-5022 bob@7x24exchange.org	President David Schirmacher Fieldview Solutions 732-395-6920 davids@7x24exchange.org	Vice President Cyrus Izzo Syska Hennessey Group 212-556-5514 cyrus@7x24exchange.org
Director - Chapter Representative Michael Siteman Executive Vice President Jones Lang LaSalle michaels@7x24exchange.org	Director of Marketing, Vendor Representative Juli Ierulli Caterpillar 309-675-4096 juli@7x24exchange.org