Tips For Picking a Data Center Facility Part 3: Cooling, Fire Suppression, and Network

Tips For Picking a Data Center Facility Part 3: Cooling, Fire Suppression, and Network

Chris Brandt
Data Center, Market Analysis, Networking

So in the last two videos we covered building your own vs. leasing colo space, different tier levels, redundancy factors, frequently used terms, facility considerations, company financials, MEP, PUE and power systems. So if you haven’t seen the first two videos, you can check them out here.

Cooling

Let’s talk about cooling. This is one of the most important and challenging features of a facility. Cooling capabilities are usually what limits the amount of power consumption and density of your facility. Cooling is dependent on the amount of energy you put into the room, the volume of the room and the amount of airflow.

eMERGE 2020 Chicago Postponed

eMERGE 2020 Chicago Postponed

Chris Brandt
eMERGE, Shows

COVID-19 Update

First we would like to thank all the sponsors of eMERGE 2020 Chicago, you are true partners in bringing this show to life and we appreciate your involvement. Many of you have inquired about our plan for the COVID-19 virus outbreak. Additionally, many of our sponsors have informed us of travel restrictions that have been put in place by their companies. This outbreak has had a significant impact on tradeshows around the world. Many shows have gone virtual or been cancelled.

eMERGE 2020 Chicago Preview

eMERGE 2020 Chicago Preview

Chris Brandt
Emerging Tech, Entertainment, Shows, eMERGE

Welcome back, I’m sure you have talk about eMERGE 2020 Chicago conference here. So what the heck is it you may be asking. This is a technology culture conference. Chicago has so many great components to make it a great technology hub, but it has failed to really take off as a technology center. I think part of that is because of the cultural aspect.

Back during the dotcom boom, Chicago had a great technology culture, but after the crash, that kind of disappeared. In the valley, the roots of technology had taken hold, but here, they weren’t as deep and they got washed away in the crash.

Tips for Choosing a Data Center Part 2: Facility, Location, and Power Systems

Tips for Choosing a Data Center Part 2: Facility, Location, and Power Systems

Chris Brandt
Cloud, Compliance, Data Center, Market Analysis, Tips and Tricks

Are you picking a data center? Unsure of what you should be looking for? Can’t figure out what makes one data center provider better than another? Well, you came to the right place.

In the last video I talked about building your own vs. leasing colo space (spoiler don’t build your own), and we talked about what the different tier levels mean and we talked about redundancy factors as well as some frequently used terms. So, if you didn’t see part 1 of this series, check it out here, I’ll wait.

Tips For Picking A Data Center Part 1: Lease vs Build, Tiers, and Redundancy

Tips For Picking A Data Center Part 1: Lease vs Build, Tiers, and Redundancy

Chris Brandt
Cloud, Compliance, Data Center, Market Analysis, Security, Tips and Tricks

As many of you may know, in my past life I was a CTO of a company that built high security mission critical data center facilities as well as owing and operating data center facilities.

I often talk with clients who are struggling with choosing data center space, so I wanted to give you a few tips when you are on the market looking. I have seen companies make a lot of mistakes over the years.

StBaldricks Part 2 - After the Shave

StBaldricks Part 2 - After the Shave

Chris Brandt
Charity, Giving Back

St Baldricks was this weekend and we raised over $43,000 to help Pediatric Cancer Research.

For more details, check out my previous video at:
https://futrtech.org/thefeed/2020/1/13/welcome-to-2020-now-lets-end-childhood-cancer

If you would like to donate, you still can at:
https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/cbrandt

I got a F#@!ing Speeding ticket

I got a F#@!ing Speeding ticket

Chris Brandt

I got a F#@!ing Speeding ticket!

40MPH in a 25MPH zone. I did it, I was speeding. I was in a hurry and I was trying to get around some cars that were getting backed up behind someone who was turning, and I got caught.

I am not here to complain about the police, he got me, fair and square. $210 ticket with the 4 hour safe driving course. What I did want to talk about is unintended consequences.

I received a ticket for 15 MHP one the speed limit, but for the most part everyone drives between 30 and 35 on this 4 lane stretch of road. Were the limit on this stretch of road to be what most people travel at, I would have only been going about 5 over.

Welcome To 2020, Now Let's End Childhood Cancer

Welcome To 2020, Now Let's End Childhood Cancer

Chris Brandt
Lifestyle, Medicine, Charity, Giving Back

Hello everyone, Welcome back to the first video or 2020. I put a new slightly shorter intro together, I would love to hear your thoughts. Let me know if you love it or hate it, or worse, are indifferent.

This first video is not going to be about tech. One of the other areas of focus for FUTRtech is to give something back, and that is what I am going to talk about today.

It is St Baldrick’s time again!

I will be shaving my head on January 26 to raise money for childhood cancer research, and who doesn’t want to help end childhood cancer.

FUTR New Year's Resolution

FUTR New Year's Resolution

Chris Brandt
Editorial, Emerging Tech, Entertainment, Ethics, Leadership, Lifestyle

As we approach the new year, I reflect on the past year. It has been incredibly busy, but satisfying. This FUTRtech website and YouTube channel have really matured, and I hope to make more videos in the new year, with more diverse content, more interviews, more cool companies and more great tech. There are also some very exciting things in the works for next year, all I will say at this point is keep April 30th open. More announcements to come in 2020.

Re:Invent 2019 Part 2

Re:Invent 2019 Part 2

Chris Brandt
AWS, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Shows, AWS Re:Invent

As I mentioned in Part 1, attendance was high. Now in its 8th year, Re:Invent had the capacity for 65,000 with over 3,000 sessions. 

This year, “Transformation” was the main theme. The main take away was that you should be moving more aggressively to the cloud. Andy Jassy in his keynote kept coming back to this theme, and much of it was aimed at senior leadership. He laid out some key points to accelerating the journey. 

Re:Invent 2019 Part 1

Re:Invent 2019 Part 1

Chris Brandt
AWS, Cloud, Shows, AWS Re:Invent

Hi Everyone, this is Chris Brandt with another AWS Re:Invent update. Before I get started I just wanted to say, if you enjoy these videos, please like and subscribe, click the bell to get notifications when I post new content. I usually do that at the end, so I thought I would try it up front for a change.

AWS Re:Invent was held once again in Las Vegas Nevada. This show has grown so large, there are few cities that can house it. Re:Invent this year had capacity for 65,000 attendees, and by all accounts they were pretty close to maximum capacity. The show spanned 6 properties in Las Vegas, and rumors have it that they are going to be adding in Mandalay Bay next year in an attempt to hit 80,000 in attendance which is absolutely mind-blowing.

AWS Re:Invent 2019 Interviews - Instana and Infinidat

AWS Re:Invent 2019 Interviews - Instana and Infinidat

Chris Brandt
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, AWS, Shows, AWS Re:Invent

Managing complex environments has always been tricky, and having good tools to provide you with actionable information is invaluable. When you start talking about cloud native applications and micro services, this challenge is magnified.

I have always felt that Application Performance Monitoring tools are very under deployed. They can be such an invaluable tool to IT, but the value proposition has often been hard to translate up the chain to CFOs. While there isn’t a direct line to greater profits, reducing the time to resolution or proactively addressing problems can have enormous value. In a micro services world, having some sort of APM in place is simply a requirement. 

AWS Re:Invent 2019 Interviews - Fivetran and Perimeter81

AWS Re:Invent 2019 Interviews - Fivetran and Perimeter81

Chris Brandt
AWS, Cloud, Shows, AWS Re:Invent

We all know the story that data is a strategic asset and this is causing companies to become IT organizations at their core. Companies are also increasingly leveraging SaaS applications. Companies now often have hundreds of SaaS vendors. With all of this comes data sprawl.

Since data is critical to organizations now, collecting and analyzing that data is key, but that can be a challenge when the data lives on many different platforms in many different forms, so bringing all of it together into a data warehouse can be hard.

NetApp Insight 2019 Part 2: Interview with Igneous and Cleondris

NetApp Insight 2019 Part 2: Interview with Igneous and Cleondris

Chris Brandt
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Compliance, Shows, Storage

A lot of the show floor was taken up by NetApp itself. The show floor was divided into different sections. Some for the Partner community, some focusing on their products and some focusing on specific use cases. And there were areas devoted to play and areas to relax.

Like other shows this year, there has been a focus on Social Media, which mostly involves tracking Twitter feeds talking about the company and show. I probably need to get plugged in with these folk a bit more.

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