Innovation

A Major Geek Moment

Posted Sun, 10/25/2009 - 23:27 by geekism

In February of 2009 I had a very unique event happen.  It was by far, one of the geekiest things I had ever done. I was still working at Sun and we had rebuilt the Data Center POD concepts into Second Life. We had created a Data Center Island that allowed anyone to walk into this virtual world and watch how the data center can be transformed from traditional power and cooling to the new modular, highly efficient configuration with PODs.  They could also interact with the PODs to see how hardware fit and things could move around.  A virtual-physical data center. That was geeky enough, but try this on for size. Greg Papadopolous (Sun's CTO & controller of over $2B in R&D funds) joined me for a live webecast directly from Second Life to Industry Analysts. They had created avatars for both of us that made us look much younger, more dignified (and skinnier) than we really were.

TelcomTV

Posted Mon, 06/15/2009 - 00:36 by geekism

Earlier this year I was interviewed by Laina Raveendran Greene (perfect name for Green IT) from TelecomTV.  They created a new show called Green Planet, Sustainable ICT.   Sun was featured in two different episodes.  I couldn't get their embed video to work, so the links are below. :-) 

Green Planet Episode 2: Energy Efficiency & the Green Data Centre

Green Planet Episode 3: Innovation for Sustainable Efficiency 

 

 

CSIA CleanTech Innovation Award

Posted Fri, 06/12/2009 - 16:36 by geekism

And the winner is...

 

Today I was forwarded an email about Sun winning and Apex award from the Colorado Technology Association (CSIA) for our Broomfield, Colorado Datacenter project.  I love it when you win an award you didn't even know you were in the running for.  :-)  Sun is a founding corporate sponsor of the CSIA organization (through StorageTek). Kristin Russell, the Sun IT Operations VP, is currently on the board of directors.  We recently hosted an Eco Innovation Summit at our Broomfield Campus which I had the privilege to speak at along with Dr. Carl Koval, Faculty Director, Colorado University Energy Initiative and Robert Noun, Executive Director, Communications and External Affairs, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Innovation Matters, What's Cool in Datacenters

Posted Sun, 05/03/2009 - 22:56 by geekism

 

Late last year I had a fun conversation on Greg Papadopolous show, Innovation Matters.  This show was targeted for Sun Internal, but there was quite a bit of interest to share it externally.  So on February 14th, it was shared on channelsun.com. We are very transparent when it comes to the work we do, and we want our customers to benefit from it.   So enjoy the segment Greg titled, What's Cool in Datacenters.

 

Innovation Award

Posted Mon, 07/28/2008 - 14:44 by geekism

I don't think I could smile any wider than I am right now.  On Wednesday July 16th, my team received Sun's Innovation Award at the Marriot in downtown San Jose, CA. The Innovation Award is one of the highest recognitions you can receive at Sun. It is presented by our CEO, Jonathan Schwartz and CTO, Greg Papadopolous at Sun's annual leadership summit for all global VPs, CTOs and Distinguished Engineers. To make this award even sweeter, it is the first time in Sun's history that the Workplace Resources group (Real Estate) has received this award.

 

World's Most Innovative Companies

Posted Tue, 03/18/2008 - 08:00 by geekism

Looks like we made the top 50 list for Fastcompany.com's Worlds Most Innovative Companies.  I would agree, we did take this as a challenge.  :-)

Here's what they had to say...

 

#45 SUN MICROSYSTEMS

Data centers account for some 3% of world energy use, and Sun has taken that as a dare. Last year, its mad-scientist approach to energy efficiency -- and $2 billion R&D budget--caused ripples across the industry as the company released the UltraSPARC T2, the world's most efficient processor; Project Blackbox, the first modular data center; and a new Silicon Valley data center that increases computer power by 456% while cutting energy costs by more than 60%. With four straight profitable quarters for the first time since 2001 and 6% revenue growth, the forecast is sunny. 

 

Not Rocket Science!

Posted Sun, 10/21/2007 - 14:42 by geekism

Man, what a month.

Earlier this month, I did an interview with Contrarian Minds editor, Al Riske. He captured my ramblings and then published the following report titled, "Not Rocket Science". It was an honor to be on the same website as people like Scott McNealy, Jonathan Schwartz, Greg Papadopoulos, Radia Permlan and James Gosling to name a few. Talk about some brain power. :-)

Instead of complicating things, my team and I have really tried to simply them when it comes to datacenter design philosophies that support the equipment of today and tomorrow. Take a look here:

 

    Not Rocket Science...

I won't be building a rocket any time soon. Then again that may be kinda fun...

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