Google's VP of Data Centers Joe Kava shares Best Practices

Here is a collection of ideas Google’s VP of Data Centers Joe Kava has shared recently.

Some Tweets from Joe’s Keynote at Uptime.

  1.  May 22

    Joe Kava at : Data center build and maintain contracts are important but relationships you foster are more important.

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  2.  May 22

    At : 's Joe Kava on unified IT/DC: "We consider it a manaufacturing process. We manufacture data processing"

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  3.  May 22

    Joe Kava, VP of Data Centers, Google: bring DC Ops team on site 6 months before go-live of new build so they can learn the site.

Cover story from Facilities Net.

Cover Story: Joe Kava Profile

Part 1: As Google Grows, It's Up To Joe Kava To Ensure Data Centers Keep Pace

Part 2: To Keep Up With Demand For Data Centers, Google Focuses On Policies, Procedures

Part 3: Custom-built Servers, Onboard Batteries Help Google Meet Its IT Energy Efficiency Goals

Part 4: Google Shares Data Center Energy Efficiency Information To Help Push Industry Change

Part 5: Customized Training Helps Google Data Center Employees Get Up To Speed

 

 

As Google Grows, It's Up To Joe Kava To Ensure Data Centers Keep Pace

By Casey Laughman, Managing Editor - May 2014 - Data Centers

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Whether it's directions, email, or figuring out who played Goon No. 2 in that old movie the other night, the odds are pretty good that you have used Google recently. After all, a company name becoming a verb is a pretty good indication that it's become the de facto standard for its industry. In Google's industry, that kind of use demands some heavy-duty support from the data center. It's up to Joe Kava, vice president of data centers, to make sure that support is delivered in all aspects of the company's data centers, from design to operations.

Considering the growth spurt the company has been on, it isn't an easy task. In 2006, Google brought online its first owned and operated data center, a $1.2 billion facility in The Dalles, Ore. Since then, the company has brought or will soon be bringing online 11 more data centers spread across six countries and four continents. As the person responsible for Google's data centers since joining the company in 2008, Kava has been in charge of most of those projects.

And Joe has another presentation coming up on May 28th.

Joe KavaMasterclass
Beyond the PUE Plateau
Presented by Joe Kava, Vice President Data Center, Google

Monday, Mar 26, 2014 Memorial Day, Veterans + Data Centers -> Salute Inc

Most of you are looking forward to a three day weekend I am too. Monday is a Memorial Day to honor men and women who died serving in US Armed Forces. My first thought goes to my cousin who died in Vietnam so long ago.


Memorial Day is a US federal holiday wherein the men and women who died while serving in theUnited States Armed Forces are remembered.[1] The holiday, which is celebrated every year on the final Monday of May,[2] was formerly known as Decoration Day and originated after the American Civil Warto commemorate the Union and Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. By the 20th century, Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died while in the military service.[3]It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.

Thinking of the US Armed Services what also comes to mind is Salute Mission Critical.

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Take a of bit time to remember those in the armed forces.

What are you going to Differently on Monday? It's holiday, I am not going to work!

Hanging with some data center folks, they said there was a session at Uptime for closing asking the question, “What are you going to Differently on Monday?”  

It’s a holiday and I am not going to work!  What about you?  Take a break.  Spend time with your family and friends,  Don’t check e-mail.  Don’t think about Data Centers!


Keynote

What Are You Going to Do Differently on Monday?

Pitt Turner, Uptime Institute Executive Director Emeritus (Moderator)

Sudhir Kalra, Executive Director in Enterprise Infrastructure, Morgan Stanley

Chris Crosby, CEO, Compass Datacenters

Fred Dickerman, Vice President, Data Center Operations, DataSpace

This keynote panel provides a platform for some of our most distinguished guests to share what they thought were the takeaways from the week's event. How might the information gleaned at Uptime Institute Symposium impact their companies and careers going forward?The idea, started by Pitt Turner at one of the first Symposia, was to ask, "What are you going to do differently on Monday?" This is a key session to reinforce new ideas and new thinking, and to make sure the event has an impact beyond the three days we share in Santa Clara.

General Session I

Blogging/Writing to Share News with Friends

People write (blog) for different reasons.  Many only see a limited range of the reasons, and assume you are blogging with the goal of making money or drive a specific agenda like create visibility for yourself.  I remember talking to a person who was digging on the reason why I blog.  “You must be doing this with an agenda.”  I started blogging when an old Microsoft friend said “I just Google’d Green Data Center, no one is writing on this.  You should.”  My response was I didn’t know.  He pushed again and I started with one of these posts.

Beginning of GreenM3

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2007 AT 11:47AM

Dec 1, 2007


The WSJ with MIT Sloan published an article today which appropriately describes one of the reasons I started working on Green Data Centers. After 14 years at Microsoft, 7 years at Apple, and 5 years at HP, I felt that it was time to do something different, and I quit with no idea what I was going to do.


One area I started working on and had an interest in was how many systems, especially home automation systems were put together for short term objectives of making the sale, and how frustrating it was for home owners when things broke to know the root cause of what broke and whether the repair actually really fixed the problem or systems were just rebooted to mask the problem. Which took me down the path of monitoring and metering. Narrowing down the area of what to focus on I discovered water well systems had the largest value impact to real estate values.  Land without water isn't worth a whole lot, and there were plenty of high end real estate being built on large acreage on the top of the hills with great views.15% of US homes are on well water systems, and the percentage is higher for vacation/2nd homes/future retirement.


Then my paths crossed with Pat Kennedy, CEO and founder of OSIsoft. In our discussion of real estate monitoring systems, Pat mentioned the problem of energy consumption in data centers, and how he wanted to measure the power consumption of applications. Having worked on system software and power management for both Microsoft and Apple, I was thinking how to do this, and how difficult it was given almost all the focus on power management was on laptops.  I remember in 1999, talking to Server OEMs about using Windows 2000 power management features and they just looked at me strange and asked why would you want to save energy on a server.

  In 2008 is when I connected with Mike Manos who I consider my first data center friend who happened to be a speaker at an OSIsoft executive summit.

This started me down the path of writing blog posts to be read by my friends.  Things that are out there that are interesting to my friends.  And, for my friends I try hard to find the original source of public disclosure.

Last night I was reading Gigaom.com, not because I work part-time for Gigaom Research (less than an hour a week), maybe I should call it micro-time instead of part-time, but because I have many friends there which include the writers.  Knowing the people helps me interpret what is written.  It is huge advantage I have versus most,  spending time to know the perspective of the writer let’s you see things from their perspective as they write.

Last night I found a post by a new Gigaom writer who I don’t know yet Jonathan Vanian on Facebook commissioning an economic impact study for Prineville.  This took me to Facebook’s post, and to the specific report.  I posted at 9:33p on May 21, 2014.  I did a News Google search to see if anyone else had picked up the news.

Facebook posted at 10a on May 21, 2014.  This morning is when the tech journals posted on the news.

Facebook notes economic value of constructing data center in Prineville

The Republic - ‎7 minutes ago‎
PRINEVILLE, Oregon — Facebook says 1,500 construction jobs were created during the four-year build-out of its data center in Prineville. The social media company operates two, 330,000-square-footdata centers and has a 62,000-square-foot "cold storage" ...

Study: Facebook's Data Center Created Thousands of Jobs in Oregon

Data Center Knowledge - ‎2 hours ago‎
Facebook's data center construction over five years has created about 650 jobs in Central Oregon and nearly 3,600 jobs in the State of Oregon overall. Construction of one of the social network's most important nerve centers has also lead to $573 million in ...

Facebook: The human impact of data centers

DatacenterDynamics (blog) - ‎28 minutes ago‎
US states are fighting over them, but what really is the economic impact that comes with having a data center in your territory? Yesterday Facebook released a report constructed with ECONorthwest which takes a closer look at how Oregon has benefitted from ...
 
I will go out of my way to find the original source, reference it, and show a thread of following where things originate.  In the past I have done analysis to figure out who are the influentials in the news.  Given some media don’t reference where they get the news from like press releases or other media outlets, it can be hard to see, but after a while you can see the patterns.
 
I post at 9:33p May 21, 2014 when the tech media guys are asleep.  They get up May 22, 2014 read my posts and know they can find the sources for news.  
 
Some of my biggest readers are other media and PR firms.  They benefit because I am writing for my friends, not for an explicit business purpose.

Facebook Reflects on 4 years of Economic Impact from Data Center in Prineville, OR

Facebook posts on its Economic Impact in Prineville from its data center presence. 

Connecting the World and Making an Impact

May 21, 2014 at 10:00am

From the moment we broke ground on our Prineville data center in 2010, Facebook has been proud to contribute to the region’s economic progress and long-term success. It is with the support of the local community that we’ve been able to grow and develop into what we are today – a multi-building campus that allows people to connect and share every day on Facebook.

 

A few months ago, we commissioned an outside firm, ECONorthwest, to measure our economic impact on a regional and statewide level and update our previous study, which only analyzed the construction and operations activity from the very first phases of the facility’s development. The new report includes major statistics and key analyses that we’d like to share:

  • The economic impacts generated by construction over five years include:

     o  651 jobs in Central Oregon; 3,592 in total in Oregon.

     o  $573 million in capital spending statewide.

The report is here.

An executive summary of the 2014 Facebook Prineville Economic and Fiscal Impact Report is available at http://www.econw.com/our-work/publications/facebook.

Executive Summary: The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Facebook’s Prineville Data Center

ECONorthwest releases a study of the economic and fiscal impacts resulting from Facebook's Prineville data center.

Published:

May 14, 2014

Written by:

Michael Wilkerson, Ph.D.
Tessa Krebs

Client:

Facebook

The executive summary of ECONorthwest's "Facebook Prineville Data Center Economic and Fiscal Impact Study."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found the above thanks to the Gigaom post. http://gigaom.com/2014/05/21/facebook-commissioned-study-says-oregon-data-center-is-good-for-the-economy/