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

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

Jul 28th, 2020 1h 51m

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 be

Focused on Strong Business Fundamentals - Episode 046 - Rich Lee

Apr 30th, 2020 1h 23m

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 multi

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

Apr 17th, 2020 1h 42m

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 dur

Megaport & Interconnection Services 101 - Episode 44 - Misha Cetrone

Mar 23rd, 2020 1h 34m

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 peopl

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

Mar 6th, 2020 1h 20m

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'

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

Feb 21st, 2020 1h 30m

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 mo

Great Culture Makes Great Business - Episode 41 - Ed Henigin

Feb 7th, 2020 1h 32m

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 an

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

Jan 22nd, 2020 1h 31m

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

Unveiling the Data Center - Episode 39 - Ryan Barbera

Oct 31st, 2019 1h 48m

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

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

Sep 16th, 2019 1h 19m

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 b

All Things Data Center Interconnection - Episode 037 - ChristianKoch

Aug 26th, 2019 1h 42m

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 frie

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

Aug 5th, 2019 1h 38m

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 d

Finding Packet - Episode 035 - Jacob Smith

Jul 8th, 2019 1h 24m

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 co

Episode 034 - Paul Croteau - Stories from an Early Racker

Jun 21st, 2019 1h 29m

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 o

Episode 033 - Sam Barhoumeh - All Things Public Cloud

Mar 31st, 2019 1h 21m

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 a

Episode 032 - Hugh Carspecken - EDGE is the new Cloud

Mar 10th, 2019 1h 25m

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 tang

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

Jan 28th, 2019 1h 14m

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 exe

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

Oct 26th, 2018 1h 46m

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 p

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

Oct 5th, 2018 1h 9m

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 numero