Not Your Father’s Data Center

On this episode of Not Your Father’s Data Center, a Compass Datacenters Podcast, Host Raymond Hawkins talked with Amit Serper, Vice President of Security Research for North America of Guardicore, the segmentation company disrupting the legacy firewall market, whose software-only approach is decoupled from the physical network, providing a faster alternative to firewalls. While most teenagers were...

When the world thinks about ethical AI, thoughts wander to movie portrayals of intelligent machines used for nefarious reasons. In the real world, that’s still a possibility, but many point to AI as the future of understanding data. Sharing his thoughts on the subject, Peter Judge, Head Editor of Datacenter Dynamics, joined host Raymond Hawkins on Not Your Father’s Data Center. Judge recently auth...

Isn’t the first rule in data centers not to get the servers wet? They’re kind of like Gremlins in that way. But someone forgot to tell Daniel Pope this fact. Pope, the CEO of Submer, thinks data servers belong submerged in liquid. He was thrilled to speak to host Raymond Hawkins about his immersion cooling technology, which provides a new green approach to data centers, on this episode of Not Your...

On this episode of Not Your Father’s Data Center, a Compass Datacenters Podcast, host Raymond Hawkins talked with Dr. Robert Sutor, Chief Quantum Exponent at IBM Research, about how quantum computing will partner with modern computing and what changes this will have for the world.

On this episode of Not Your Father’s Data Center, a podcast From Compass Data Centers, host Raymond Hawkins talked with Rich Miller, Founder and Editor of Data Center Frontier, a digital publication that covers the data center industry and “tells the story of the digital economy through the facilities that power the cloud and the people who build them.”

In the data center world, when one mentions a backup power generator, one assumes diesel. Enchanted Rock Chief Commercial Officer Allan Schurr said it’s time to think differently. Enchanted Rock’s solution is one powered by natural gas.

It is hard to believe, but there is a significant amount of megawatts that goes unused in global data centers. On this episode of the Not Your Father's Data Center Podcast, Host Raymond Hawkins of Compass Data Centers talked with Dean Nelson, the CEO of Virtual Power Systems. Nelson talked about his work at Uber and Sun Systems. This led down the path of Nelson's work at Virtual Power Systems, whe...

Host Raymond Hawkins found time to pull himself away from watching The Masters to chat with Schneider Electric’s Vice President of Innovation and Data Centers, Steven Carlini, for an insider’s peek at Schneider’s approach to data centers and innovation.

The phrase, ‘The future is now,’ without question, applies to quantum computers. What was not so long ago a science fiction fantasy is now a reality that’s not only closer than one might think, it’s here. Dr. Bob Sutor, a technical leader in the IT industry, working for IBM for over thirty years, joined Raymond Hawkins for an exciting talk about quantum computing, how it works, and how this revolu...

The modern world is driven by data and our ability to analyze it, and the final frontier – space – provides an overwhelming amount of data just waiting to help us understand and commercialize what lies beyond our planet. However, the current infrastructure needs a boost to help us get there. At OrbitsEdge, CTO and Co-founder Rick Ward and the rest of the team think they’ve identified the missing l...

AI and machine learning are common terms, but they are complex with many applications. Understanding this is critical, and Not Your Father’s Data Center Podcast is back to unpack the terms with guest Zachary Lipton. Lipton is an Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon, where he runs the Approximately Correct Machine Intelligence Lab.

Carrie Goetz, Chief Information Technology Officer at StrategITcom, International Keynote Speaker, STEM evangelist and podcaster, turned the tables on host Raymond Hawkins by dubbing this podcast episode “Not Your Mother’s Data Center.” And, in honor of Goetz, a long-time Mississippi resident, Hawkins unveiled his first-ever trivia contest.

Nancy Novak, Chief Innovation Officer, Compass Datacenters is a firm believer that innovation comes in different forms, and she knows it’s people, processes and systems that drive innovations. Those three key focuses drive Novak’s work at Compass Datacenters, and she opened up to host Raymond Hawkins about some of the exciting innovations happening at Compass. Novak’s concentration is on improving...

Digital infrastructure is a common term in the data center industry, but it wasn’t always. So, how did the industry evolve to the notion that technology is infrastructure? It’s been a long journey, buoyed by investment. To talk about the financial aspect of data centers, host Raymond Hawkins spoke with Irtiaz Ahmad, Head of Global Data Center Banking at Barclays. Ahmed has spent the last 15 years...

Nancy Novak had made up her mind. She was retired. But, just like her last retirement, this one didn’t stick. This time, however, she was only out of the workforce for one day. After that brief interlude, Novak accepted her current role as Chief Innovation Officer at Compass Datacenters, taking over after serving as the company’s Senior Vice President of Construction. Even that was a job the veter...

Haynes Strader, Vice President of Data Center Solutions, CBRE, returned to Not Your Father’s Data Center for a look back and assessment of one of the craziest years in recent memory. To summarize the market during the pandemic, Strader said, “CBRE had a really busy first quarter, and then, in March, we saw a big screeching halt as everyone was trying to figure out what was happening.” There was st...

Lee Kirby, Cofounder and Chairman of Salute Mission Critical, wanted to use his 36 years of military experience to help veterans and their families. Drawing upon 30 years of information systems, strategic business development, planning and human resource experience in private and public sectors, Kirby began Salute Mission Critical. Salute’s mission is to provide military veterans and their spouses...

To get a perspective on how the data center industry is faring in European markets during the pandemic, host Raymond Hawkins tapped Andrew Jay, Head of EMEA Data Centre Solutions, Advisory & Transaction Services for CBRE, to help him unpack what’s happening. The need for co-location space is growing in Europe, as demands for data storage are at unprecedented levels and have been for several ye...

In the second half of a two-part discussion on technology, Peter Judge, Global Editor for DatacenterDynamics, and host Raymond Hawkins turned their attention on the data center industry, the impact technology advancements have on it and the evolving role of the DatacenterDynamics’ publication. One of the cornerstones of DatacenterDynamics’ success is its events, which they’ve done for years and ut...

Peter Judge may have started his education journey with a degree in physics from Cambridge University, but most will know him from his work as a writer in the technology space. His current role is as the Global Editor for DataCenterDynamics, and he shared his experience and thoughts on technology and datacenters with Raymond Hawkins. Judge started his career in tech journalism back in the 80s at t...

There may still be a stigma around nuclear energy, which can conjure up images like the eerie scene painted in the 2019 HBO mini-series about the Chernobyl disaster. The infamous Three Mile Island incident sparked a series of reforms, though, that led to the creation of a stringent federal oversight body. “That was a pretty serious wake-up for the industry. That set off a path to really emphasize...

Energy use is always a topic that comes up when thinking about data centers and their role in society. As we’ve seen in the coronavirus pandemic, our society will need data centers, but the top two sources of energy used by the United States are still based on fossil fuels. For Matt Crozat, the Senior Director of Strategy and Policy at the Nuclear Energy Institute, a more wholistic approach is nee...

As governments and corporations look for ways to reduce their carbon footprint, Eric Dunford , Director of Sustainability for CarbonCure , knows of a solution to help these entities meet their needs when it comes to construction projects. Dunford joined host Raymond Hawkins to talk about CarbonCure’s process for introducing recycled CO2 Into fresh concrete to reduce its carbon footprint without co...

Haynes Strader, Vice President of Data Center Solutions, CBRE, sees the market for data center needs flourishing, even during the pandemic. “It’s been an exciting and crazy 2020, and a challenging one for many of our clients,” Strader said. “From a data center perspective, the COVID-19 crisis created a real sense of urgency for digital transformation for a lot of enterprises, and that’s kick-start...

With data centers going up quickly all over the country, quality control and the commissioning process are vital steps to making sure everything is getting done correctly. Yet the typically high-touch process has been complicated by social distancing regulations and other health precautions that are part of doing business during the COVID-19 pandemic. When Compass Datacenters wanted to complete te...