Data Centers

Mingle, Pizza, and Beer.

"Efficient Data Center Installs"
John Brimmer - Datacenter Manager, Complete Genomics, Inc.
Tony Hansmann - Storage Manager, Complete Genomics, Inc.

"Yahoo's Next Generation Data Center Design"
Scott Noteboom - Vice President, DC Engineering & Operations, Yahoo!, Inc.

"Yahoo's Racked Host Delivery Verification process"
Jim Barbour - Service Engineer, Yahoo!, Inc.
Jason Werner, Service Engineer, Yahoo!, Inc.

Despite all the buzz around Cloud Computing, a number of companies are still using data centers or co-location facilities to house their own gear.

If you have your own gear, we'd like to hear about it. Can you tell us about how you manage your data center efficiently? How do you manage the physical gear? Did you build your own data center? How do you hand off responsibilities between on-site management and remote administration? Or, perhaps you can tell us about why you use a facility instead of using cloud resources? For a large enough installation, owned and operated is still believed to be more cost effective; could you share any data around that? Other topics around managing or using data centers or co-location facilities are also welcome.

I'm looking for speakers for this event. Can you give a 20-25 minute talk on this topic? Please message me directly if you would like to present.

This month, we're also going to try starting the evening with a brief lightning talk (5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds/slide) session. I'll allow time for up to 2-3 of these. The lightning talks can be about anything this audience will find interesting--so don't limit yourself to the evening's topic. If you are interested in giving a lightning talk, please message me directly; first-come first-served.