The POD Father

Posted Thu, 10/28/2010 - 01:22 by geekism

I love meeting people that has much passion and drive for technology as I do. Wade Vinson, a Power & Cooling Strategist at HP, is one of those guys. He is better known as the POD father (and yes he gets a lot of guff for that name!). He ranks pretty high on my geekism scale due to his utter exuberance for his lego-set data center. I recently visited the HP site in Houston Texas to look at the latest HP POD. Wade was nice enough to let film a tour with him for our latest Data Center Pulse "On-The-Road" episode. He also tried very hard to convince me he could join DCP Core since he is an "End User" after building his 6MW POD test facility...hmmm...

The jury is still out on standard "containers", but Wade has evolved their approach and come up with a new building block. It's no longer a shipping container, it's a POD (sounds familiar). The POD is wider and taller than a container with everything you need packed inside. Ahh, glorius density! That is music to my ears. Now if it only had a high-temp, liquid cooled IT equipment option with over-clocking (that sounds like a familiar request as well). :-)

Episode 3 of DCP "On The Road" is embedded below. Stay tuned for more episodes on the DCP YouTube Channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/datacenterpulse