In the latest episode of Uptime with Data Center Knowledge, we look at the evolution of bare metal servers. To find out more about the subject, we chat to bothers Jacob and Zachary Smith – co-founders of Packet, a bare metal hosting service that was acquired by data center giant Equinix in 2020, in a deal worth $335 million. Packet became the foundation of the new Equinix Metal business, led by Zac as its managing director, and Jacob – as the VP of bare metal strategy and...

In the latest episode of Uptime with DCK, we take a detailed look at liquid cooling with Dattatri Mattur, director of hardware engineering at Cisco. With upcoming server CPUs expected to consume around 400W of power, GPUs already consuming more than that (Nvidia’s H100 requires ~700W per board), and with terabytes of memory per server, the cutting-edge IT workloads of the future will be almost impossible to cool with air alone. In this podcast, we discuss thermal design points of modern...

In the latest episode of Uptime with DCK, we investigate the skills crisis facing the data center industry with Nabeel Mahmood, an experienced IT executive, keynote speaker, and one of the hosts of the Nomad Futurist podcast. We look at data center culture, and approaches to attracting a new generation of talent into the wonderful world of mission-critical infrastructure. According to Nabeel, the main main challenge for the industry is awareness – data center degrees are still few and far...

Hello there, or shall I say, welcome back? Six months after our last episode with DCK’s illustrious Yevgeniy Sverdlik, we are relaunching the podcast, under the working title ‘Uptime with DCK.’ The mission is the same: find out what industry leaders think of the latest trends in data center design and operation, and share their hard-won industry expertise. In the first episode of the new season, editor Max Smolaks (that’s me) chats with Dominic Ward, CEO of data center operator Verne...

The former infrastructure head at eBay and Uber talks about his first year on the vendor side, VPS’s technology vision, the largest data center operators' efforts to get to zero carbon, and Infrastructure Masons' work to improve the industry's new-talent pipeline.

Vertiv's CEO reflects on early days of the pandemic and shares thoughts on where the company finds itself today in relation to the global crisis. We also talked about the global supply chain issues and their impact on Vertiv and its customers, the company’s strategy for growing in the hyperscale data center market, and which areas of data center technology its hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D spend has been going.

Equinix has been leveraging its position at the top of the data center service provider market to expand into new areas, such as data center infrastructure for next-gen mobile applications, subsea-cable landing stations, and hyperscale facilities. On the latest episode of The Data Center Podcast, we interview Jim Poole, VP of business development at Equinix, about these initiatives, as well as its strategy around expanding in emerging markets, reaching data center sustainability, and more.

The Data Center Podcast: After a nervous pause at the start of the pandemic, the major North American data center provider’s business skyrocketed.

Charlie Boyle, general manager of the Nvidia DGX unit, on AI hardware and data centers.

Alex Rabbetts leads the European Data Center Association, the lobbying organization behind the recent Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact. In the interview we try to learn why EUDCA thinks a voluntary pact -- as opposed to regulation -- wouldn’t put the industry’s interests ahead of what’s best for the environment.

Bryan Cantrill, CTO and co-founder of Oxide Computer Company, tells us how his startup is designing a rack-scale computer for enterprise IT shops that have “good reasons” to run applications in their own data centers.

Some of the largest data center operators have been ramping up investment in renewable energy and other measures aimed at reducing their impact on climate change. Overall, however, creating a truly sustainable data center industry -- which as a sector is of the fastest-growing energy consumers -- will require regulation.

Tim Hughes, director of strategy and development at Stack Infrastructure, takes us inside the booming business of building and leasing massive computing facilities to the world's largest cloud platforms.

Alan Mauldin, who tracks the submarine cable market at TeleGeography, joins us on The Data Center Podcast to talk about hyperscalers' massive influence on how cables are funded, where they land, and how they’re designed.

Veteran data center real estate broker Jim Kerrigan explains the state of play in the US data center leasing market and shares some tips for data center tenants.

The networking giant’s CTO explains its opportunity for a SaaS play and his vision of data center automation.

Chris Crosby, founder and CEO of Compass Datacenters, on business, diversity, and sustainability.

The Data Center Podcast: Jabez Tan, head of research at Structure Research, on the state of play in the global colocation market, including an overview of the top emerging markets, where most of the growth is going to happen over the next few years.

The Data Center Podcast: Deepak Patil, head of Dell’s cloud business, on building a platform and supply chain for consuming private cloud infrastructure that feels, as much as possible, like consuming public cloud services.

Kentik’s Avi Freedman on the internet’s resiliency, ‘edgefication’ of everything, and the rise of the internet bypass.

Jeff Wittich, who until recently led the Intel unit that designs and sells processors for cloud data centers, joins us to talk about his new gig as VP of products at Ampere Computing, the Arm processor startup founded by former Intel president Renee James that's focused squarely on eating Intel's lunch in the cloud provider data center market.

Zahl Limbuwala, executive director, CBRE - Romonet, joins us on The Data Center Podcast to talk about what's coming after CBRE's acquisition of his company Romonet earlier this year, to reflect on the UK's cabon tax on data center operators, cost considerations for liquid cooling, and Brexit.

Peter Gross, Bloom Energy's VP of mission critical, says he hasn’t seen anything more disruptive after decades in the business.

Roland Acra, the man in charge of Cisco’s Data Center Business Group, joins us on The Data Center Podcast.