As part of our Data Centre #DCD media partnership here is a series of interviews which deep dive into the Data Centre industry, recorded in August & September 2018 at Data Center Dynamics – DCD Australia, Sydney #DCDAustralia and DCD South East Asia in Singapore #DCDSingapore.
In the last of our Data Centre podcast series with DCD, we conclude in Singapore with Prof. Greg Sherry, General Director/ Professor, DCPRO Development and CEO of VARceti.
Greg has been involved with the IT Industry for 40 years and has worked in many aspects across the data centre business.Greg has been delivering Data Centre training for many years and was a trainer for the CDCDP classes, the BICSI Data Centre design course, and most recently, the training courses from DCPRO. He is the author of the world’s most widely taught data centre training course, Data Centre Design Awareness, and a contributing editor to several other courses. Greg has delivered training across the globe on every populated continent, to more than 1000 students in some of the industries’ largest organisations. He is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading data centre design authorities.
Recent projects in Russia have included the design supervision and risk management of a 2Mw, Phase 2 build project for an International Colo provider. The review of design and operational procedures for a major Russian Telco. Audit and review of existing facility for International telco and subsequent report detailing future strategy for data centre operations. Audit of Russian DC for one of the world’s largest consultancies.
Greg has recently been appointed as a Professor at Plekhanov Russian University for Economics, and teaches a post graduate class in Data Centre design there.
Episode 105 – Business Drivers & Data Centres, with Stephen Worn, CTO & CEO DCD North America: Based in New York, Stephen Worn is the CEO of North America, Managing Director of Asia Pacific, as well as Global CTO for Data Centre Dynamics. This interview delves into data centre trends in Australia, Asia Pacific region and globally, as well as how technology and digital transformation is influencing and driving business opportunity and risk.
Episode 102 – Achieving sustainable data centres and the next Moore’s Law trends, with Prof. Ian Bitterlin, Leeds University: Ian Bitterlin discusses the developments in data centre design, energy use and heat generation and increasing adaptability of Moore’s Law type technology trends with the transition from silicon based chips to graphene. We discuss the key aspects of data centre transition with removing comatosed, legacy servers, increasing equipment utilisation, frequently refreshing ICT hardware and adapting to technology leaps possible with graphine and photonics. References mentioned during the discussion are provided in the podcast notes.
Episode 99 – Is this the McDonalds of the DC industry? Meet Digital Realty, the world’s largest full scale data centre provider: We speak to Rod Glover, Director – Data Centre Operations, Australia and Omer Wilson, Head of Marketing APAC at Digital Realty. Digital Realty is the world’s largest full scale data centre provider offering colocation, wholesale deployments, interconnection and cloud services. Cloud providers are growing rapidly and remain the fastest growing in the DC market. Geographically distributed across North America, Europe and APAC, these customers need to spread their DC assets quickly. With a unique business model where Digital Realty source and purchase the land and then lease (the McDonalds of the DC industry?), Digital Realty is a real estate investment trust and also sources electricity with hedges on the energy market rather than fixed terms. This facilitates a range of advantages including PUE (Power Utilisation Efficiency), measured by the total power divided by the IT load, with a 1:3 ratio as a DC design target.
Episode 98 – How IoT data capture and processing is driving new edge-to-core data center network architectures: Interview with Jim Fletcher, Strategy Partner, Office of the CTO at Momenta Partners. Jim most recently served as an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the IBM Watson Internet of Things Platform. In this role, Jim had responsibility for the architecture and technical direction for IBM’s Internet of Things platform including identifying technologies, architecture, M&A and strategic partnerships.
Episode 97 – Data Centre trends in the era of edge computing and security considerations around rapid deployment: Interview with Robert Linsdell, ANZ Managing Director, Vertiv and Tony Gaunt, Senior Director, Colocation, Cloud & BFSI, Vertiv Asia. Vertiv (formerly Emerson Network Power) designs, builds, and services data centres and communication networks for commercial facilities and critical infrastructure. We speak about IT infrastructure and the considerations to ensure data is kept safe and secure, including through physical access and against natural disasters. With the advent of modularised DC racks and equipment, the time to acquire, install and configure a new DC has never been shorter.
