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Data Center Industry Gateway for Military Veterans - Episode 48 – Jason Okroy

In this episode I spend time talking with Jason Okroy, Co-founder and CEO of Salute Mission Critical, a US military veteran focused data center services company. Having toured hundreds of production data centers over the years, the facilities I have walked through that were the cleanest and with the most educated facilities staff were those operated by veterans of our armed forces. If you think about it for even a few seconds, this starts to make perfect sense given the training, discipline, nec...

Aug 13, 2020•58 min

Balance is Important. Words Matter. - Episode 047 - Jeff Wabik

Early on in our conversation, Jeff politely made me aware that he has socks older than me. Apart from this telling me that he definitely needs some new socks, I became even more excited to dig into the interview knowing that he has literally been helping to build the infrastructure that runs the digital world longer than my short 40 years on this planet. We talk through him helping to start the first ISP in Minnesota, how exactly high capacity optical switching gear works and what a day in the l...

Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 51 min

Focused on Strong Business Fundamentals - Episode 046 - Rich Lee

Staying on topic re: demystifying the Interconnection Services Industry and our recent Interconnection Playbook launch, I spent time with successful data center and managed hosting entrepreneur Rich Lee who is now spearheading Pureport, a multicloud interconnection provider. Rich happens to also live in Raleigh, NC and has obtained a wealth of knowledge to share with us having had direct experience across a number of successful M&A events within the data center and IT Services industry over ...

Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 24 min

Drive Quality in Everything You Do - Episode 045 - Chris Downie

Excited to share with you a few stories from Chris Downie on his professional experience growing into the data center industry. His unique perspective as the CEO of both Telx during the acquisition by Digital Realty Trust in 2015 and Peak10 during their acquisition of Viawest in 2017 (now Flexential) makes this interview extremely powerful. We also touch on what steps Flexential has taken to address concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic, what a day in the life of a CEO of a data center company l...

Apr 17, 2020•1 hr 42 min

Megaport & Interconnection Services 101 - Episode 44 - Misha Cetrone

The Interconnection Services Playbook, which serves as an attempt to demystify the Interconnection Services Industry, is now released into the wild! Keeping with this topic, I thought it appropriate to interview another one of my favorite people in the industry, Misha Cetrone, Sr. Global Director, Cloud Solution Architecture at Megaport. Misha drops some technical knowledge about why Interconnection Services are important, how they will continue to evolve, what some tangible uses cases are to co...

Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 35 min

Fascinating, Exciting, and So Much Opportunity - Episode 43 - James Grice

I was lucky enough to grab some time with attorney James Grice for this episode to do a serious knowledge drop regarding data center tax frameworks applicable to the data center asset class. If reading that got you as excited as it did me, you're in the right place! James and I geek out on tax issues related to the industry, defining how data centers impact a community beyond the W2 FTEs hired to maintain the facility, how growing power consumption can and will need to be addressed... and much m...

Mar 06, 2020•1 hr 21 min

Hyperscale Level Performance to the Multi-tenant Colocation Market - Episode 42 - Jake Ring

Given how little innovation has gone on in the commercial data center colocation industry as of late, I was skeptical when someone told me the GIGA Data Center located north of Charlotte, NC was delivering a product that was unique. Although modular data centers are nothing new, I was definitely impressed by the novel approach they have gone about deploying their solution and re-thinking the layout of a data center to drive maximum efficiency. Jake Ring, Co-Founder and CEO, spent time with me ta...

Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 30 min

Great Culture Makes Great Business - Episode 41 - Ed Henigin

Data Foundry is one of the oldest privately owned data center companies in the world. They've managed to build a highly profitable business and survive a number of economic downturns over two and half decades by sticking to their core values and being highly selective about the clients they work with. In this interview I have the privilege of talking to their CTO, Edward Henigin, who has been with the company since inception. We discuss how he migrated from Hawaii to Illinois to Texas and the le...

Feb 07, 2020•1 hr 33 min

Network is the Wild Wild West - Episode 040 - Erik Knight

SD-WAN has been hyped for a few years now as a "game changer" in the industry that will replace WAN MPLS networks. I have definitely seen a rise in the numer of clients and consultants starting to deploy these solutions lately, and can clearly understand the value in the visibility and control these environments provide end users over their networks. Much like Cloud Computing however, nearly every network service provider is now claiming to have some form of SD-WAN solution. In an attempt to bet...

Jan 22, 2020•1 hr 31 min

Unveiling the Data Center - Episode 39 - Ryan Barbera

While advancements in the data center industry have made shopping the scene as a consumer seem more complicated, it's actually more accessible than ever. Ryan Barbera and I discuss the red tape and the mystique surrounding the industry and how making your next data center decision isn't as complex as it seems. Tune in and learn how Ryan and I lifted the veil and added resources to help make important digital decisions. We explore how we are leveraging an ever growing ecosystem of like-minded ind...

Oct 31, 2019•1 hr 48 min

Your IT is Likely Less Automated than Dominos - Episode 038 - Josh Williams

Now that the dust has settled with INAP's acquisition of Singlehop, I wanted to speak with one of the brains at the company who was front and center during the transition to get a raw view into the why, how and what's next at the company. Who better than my friend Josh Williams, INAP's now VP of Solutions Engineering who spent 5 years at Singlehop and now leading the entire SE team for the company. Josh and I are aligned on many levels outside of both growing up in the Windy City in the 80's and...

Sep 16, 2019•1 hr 19 min

All Things Data Center Interconnection - Episode 037 - ChristianKoch

I've been trying to make sense of how Megaport, Packet Fabric, PurePort, Equinix's ECX, Digital Realty's Service Exchange, DE-CIX, Epsilon, etc. all differentiate from one another over the past 12 months with little success. Thankfully, my friend and fellow industry trouble maker Christian Koch, having spent time working for a variety of the companies listed above, had the patience to sit and walk me through the nuances. Get ready to be smarter on all the new ways an enterprise can connect to en...

Aug 26, 2019•1 hr 42 min

Your Data is Getting Safer... Sort of - Episode 036 - Aaron Hughes

Aaron Hughes has spent decades architecting, building and managing various components that make up the internet we all use today. Ever heard of PeeringDB.com? Yeah, that was one of his many "side projects" that was put together in a matter of days because it simply needed to be done and he saw no one else doing it. Since I met the man, he has been a role model of productivity, successfully juggling multiple roles and wearing multiple hats at the same time. His Linkedin Profile says it all to thi...

Aug 05, 2019•1 hr 39 min

Finding Packet - Episode 035 - Jacob Smith

Jacob and I are aligned on a mission to bring sexy back to the infrastructure that runs the brave new digital world we live in. Our conversation covers how he evolved from a 2nd Bassoon in the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia to the CMO and cofounder of a transformational cloud service provider to what it's like running a company with your twin brother to how software is, as he says, "eating the world". Dig in, learn something new, and enjoy! I sure did!

Jul 08, 2019•1 hr 25 min

Episode 034 - Paul Croteau - Stories from an Early Racker

You know those moments when numerous people tell you that you "NEEEED" to talk to someone because they think you'll instantly get along, and then you finally meet the person and, in fact, you discover they were spot on? Well, this episode was one of those moments. Paul is a fascinating character with experience in marketing, sales, sales engineering and... traveling the world creating and playing music for world dignitaries. We cover what it was like watching Rackspace evolve from just a few doz...

Jun 21, 2019•1 hr 29 min

Episode 033 - Sam Barhoumeh - All Things Public Cloud

In this episode I spent some time with my new friend Sam Barhoumeh, Founder and CEO of ReadyNetworks, a full service technology solutions firm based in Chicagoland that provides cloud infrastructure, security, and IT consulting. In short, Sam and I talk all things cloud. Flavors of Cloud, Evolution of the Cloud, Migrating to/from the Cloud, Containers in the Cloud, Clouding Cloud Cloudification of the Cloud… you get the point. Appreciate Sam as both an owner of a scaling managed services company...

Mar 31, 2019•1 hr 22 min

Episode 032 - Hugh Carspecken - EDGE is the new Cloud

The “Edge” has become one of the new buzzwords that unfortunately means both everything and nothing at the same time, much like the term “Cloud.” Given Hugh’s experience operating micro data centers around the world, we try to provide some tangible case studies for actual edge data center deployments and discuss what the future holds for hybrid compute work loads. We also spend time speaking to how our faith affects the way we operate in the industry as professionals, business leaders, fathers a...

Mar 10, 2019•1 hr 25 min

Episode 031 - Ken Male - IT Spend Visualization is a Game Changer

This week on the I Love Data Centers podcast: CxO NExUS, I interview the Chief Executive Officer of CxO NExUS, Ken Male. With more than 25 years of leadership positions in IT research, Ken Male possesses a deep understanding of how C-Suite executives leverage fact based data to improve decision-making. Male’s background includes experience working in senior and executive roles with Gartner, Giga (acquired by Forrester), Apptio, and Jupiter Research (also acquired by Forrester). Through interacti...

Jan 28, 2019•1 hr 14 min

Episode 030 - Mark Houpt - All Things Data and Data Center Security

This week on the I Love Data Centers podcast: All Things Data and Data Center Security, I interview the Chief Information Security Officer of Databank, Mark Houpt. Whereas security has typically been an afterthought for most companies in the past, it has quickly become the most talked about topic in the industry these days with high profile data breaches happening on a regular basis. I wanted to do an interview that addressed the most common conversations data center and hosting providers are ha...

Oct 26, 2018•1 hr 47 min

Episode 029 - AJ Byers - The Montreal Data Center Market is so Hot Right Now

This week on the I Love Data Centers podcast: The Montreal Data Center Market is so Hot Right Now, I interview the President and CEO of Root Data Center, AJ Byers. Although Episode 6 with Philbert Shih touched on the topic, I have heard numerous times about major deployments going down in and around Montreal, Canada over the past few months and wanted to explore the topic further. To get the full story on how the Canadian data center market has evolved over the past 20 years, there was no better...

Oct 05, 2018•1 hr 9 min

Episode 028 - Alan Fagan - IT Components, SDN and The Irish Technology Boom

This week on the I Love Data Centers podcast: IT Components, SDN and The Irish Technology Boom, I interview the North America Sales Manager at EPS Global, Alan Fagan. This interview is part of our partnership with Enterprise Ireland and in conjunction with an upcoming Irish Data Center Forum Sean will be participating in at the end of September. Alan Fagan is an IT industry expert with over 20 years selling the infrastructure that lives in the data center. He began his career in Dublin, Ireland ...

Sep 07, 2018•1 hr

Episode 027 - Mark Del Bianco - Drones and PII

This week on the I Love Data Centers podcast, we interview Mark Del Bianco, an attorney who represents direct sales agents and services providers in the data center industry, with experience in how drones are used for data collection. In this podcast, Del Bianco and I discuss the EU’s GDPR, its impact on EU and American citizens, and some laws being created in the U.S. that cover Personally Identifiable Information or PII. This is an excellent chance to gain some insight on drone technology as a...

Aug 07, 2018•1 hr 29 min

Episode 026 - Sean Patrick Tario - How I Got Here; Rich Miller Interviews the Interviewer

This week on the I Love Data Centers podcast: How I Got Here, Rich Miller Interviews Sean Patrick Tario, the voice and vision behind the I Love Data Centers Podcast. Due to the volume of requests to turn the tables and have someone interview me for the podcast, we decided to do just that in this episode. I was honored to have Rich Miller, founder of datacenterknowledge.com and datacenterfrontier.com, take charge to this extent following the same format I use during my interviews. In this episode...

Jul 12, 2018•1 hr 31 min

Episode 025 - Rob DeVita - Past, Present & Future of OPEN IX & Carrier Hotels

Rob attended one of my data center bootcamps in Denver years ago and instantly became an advocate for the education I was providing the industry. It took all of a few minutes for me to become a huge advocate of his as well, as he is, truly, a master of his craft. He also knows how to throw truly epic parties, which is another shared passion of ours. After nearly 2 decades working for various data center service providers, Rob made the jump to the client representation side exclusively last year ...

Jun 18, 2018•1 hr 21 min

Episode 024 - Phil Keenan - MicroCorp's Cloud Elements Division and The Anatomy of a Master Agency

This week on the I Love Data Centers podcast: MicroCorp’s New Cloud Elements Division and the Anatomy of a Telecom Master Agency, I interview the President of MicroCorp, Phil Keenan. When I first met Phil in Atlanta nearly 3 years ago, it was obvious he was different than every other executive I had met working in the telecom industry. He cut through the typical positioning BS right from the start, wanted to execute quickly, and viewed the industry through the same lenses I did. Truth be told, w...

Jun 04, 2018•1 hr 25 min
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