The QTS Experience

The Data Center Rockstar with Peter Hannaford

Peter has built and operated data centers around the world. He is an innovator in infrastructure cooling a legendary operator, and an early adapter in the fight for sustainability within the industry. Lately, Peter has focused his talents on bring the right executives into the industry with a focus on diversity. Join me and Peter as we discuss his 40+ years in the business and how now is the best time to be part of this amazing world, on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

Peter Hannaford

https://www.portmanpartners.com/

Peter was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Datacloud EMEA Congress in 2018 in Monaco for “outstanding achievement spanning one’s entire career”. This followed his pioneering work in Nigeria in the 1970’s in implementing Nigeria’s first on-line banking system; in developing foreign exchange systems for international banks in the 1980’s; in starting one of Europe’s first datacenter construction firms in the 1990’s; in founding the company which developed the first water-cooled rack for high-density servers which was sold to APC in 2003 and which led to APC’s development of In-Row cooling and Containment which dominated the datacenter market in the 2000’s; the founding of Datacenter People, the first global recruitment firm dedicated to the datacenter sector in 2010; and in 2018 the founding of Portman Partners where Peter now works, using his considerable personal network and reputation to help firms in the digital infrastructure space to find leadership talent around the world. In 2019 he was included in the Power 200 list of personalities around the world who "are leading the datacenter and cloud and sectors through charting new innovations or technological breakthroughs, investment or business acumen or exceptional entrepreneurial skillsets".

 

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The Science of Fear with Eva Holland

We all like a great adventure right? But what if that adventure has to deal with confronting life long anxiety, phobias, and debilitating fear? Freelance writer Eva Holland joins me as she discusses her new book: Nerve, Adventures in the Science of Fear. We discuss her own story with fear and how she used emerging scientific techniques in her own journey – on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

www.evaholland.com

@evaholland

Eva is a writer-for-hire based in Whitehorse, the capital city of Canada’s Yukon Territory. She's done all sorts of writing and editing work in the ten years since she quit her day job and started freelancing full-time – travel writing, sports writing, movie reviews, grant writing, copy writing, blogging… – but these days she's focused mainly on narrative nonfiction in its various forms: personal essays, reported features, and all the shades in between.

You can find her stories in Outside, WIRED, Pacific Standard, Bloomberg Businessweek, AFAR, Grantland, The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Hakai, Hazlitt, and many more outlets in print and online. She is a former associate editor and contributing editor at Up Here, an award-winning magazine focused on the Canadian north, and a founding contributor to Vela, an online magazine of creative nonfiction. Eva was also a longtime editor at World Hum, where in addition to editing others’ work she wrote occasional blog posts and travel-themed personal essays.

Eva likes to write about travel, sports, outdoor adventure, and the ways we interact with the wilderness. She has also dabbled in crime writing, and spent some time covering the Yukon mining industry. She is interested in the changes and conflicts that are coming to Alaska and the Canadian North, and to the North American West more generally – in 2015, she wrote a column for Pacific Standard called Dispatches From a Changing Arctic. Her stories have been listed as notable selections in The Best American Essays 2015 and 2013, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017, The Best American Travel Writing 2015, and The Best American Sports Writing 2016 and 2013; her work has also been regularly cited by Longform, Longreads, Byliner, The Browser, Nieman Storyboard, and Lady Journos. In 2015 Eva was a finalist for a Canadian National Magazine Award.

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Supremely Human with Jeremy Gilbertson, Part 2

My next guest says connecting through music and storytelling is supremely human. Jeremy Gilbertson Is a technologist, musician, writer, and producer, but mostly, he is supremely human, on this episode of the QTS experience.

About Our Guest:

https://www.jeremygilbertson.com/ Jeremy is an insatiably curious entrepreneur who loves to connect, learn and teach. He applies creativity, design-thinking, and technology expertise in order to problem-solve across industries. A musician, producer, and experience designer, he is also a writer who investigates and shares perspectives on interdisciplinary subjects. Jeremy is also an expert in data center and IT transformation.

 

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Supremely Human with Jeremy Gilbertson, Part 1

The Internet of Things – or Internet of Risk? with Steve Brumer, Part 2

We all love to connect our things to the internet – Steve Brumer, an IoT expert, joins me to discuss how these benefits can create risks that we never imagined – on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

https://bhiotgroup.com/

BH IoT Group is a Wireless & IoT Consulting Practice. Our team of experts helps companies navigate the constantly changing environment of the Internet of Things. We build Go-to-Market strategies, educate and enable our clients to be successful within IoT to ensure their success in SMB, mid-market and enterprise environments.

 

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The Internet of Things – or Internet of Risk? with Steve Brumer, Part 1

We all love to connect our things to the internet – Steve Brumer, an IoT expert, joins me to discuss how these benefits can create risks that we never imagined – on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

BH IoT Group is a Wireless & IoT Consulting Practice. Our team of experts helps companies navigate the constantly changing environment of the Internet of Things. We build Go-to-Market strategies, educate and enable our clients to be successful within IoT to ensure their success in SMB, mid-market and enterprise environments.

 

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For more information, go to www.QTSDataCenters.com

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Human or Robot: Which has the Higher Value Proposition? with Chris Kocks Part 2

You may not see them but there are already Robots among us. Chris Kocks, founder and CEO of RoboSolucio, joins me this week to discuss what the near term role of Robots will and won’t be on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

https://www.robosolucio.com

Chris Kocks is an innovator & leader with over twenty years of industry and consulting experience in IoT, robotics, communications, automotive, financial services, and manufacturing. He has extensive expertise in business development, product development/management, business metrics, marketing analytics, business intelligence, sales acquisition, segmentation, retention, and customer strategies. RoboSolucio are leaders in creating innovative solutions in home and health monitoring. They are at the forefront of robotic advances and artificial intelligence. Their mission is to be dedicated to helping people keep their family members safe and feeling connected to their communities.

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Human or Robot: Which has the Higher Value Proposition? with Chris Kocks Part 1

You may not see them but there are already Robots among us. Chris Kocks, founder and CEO of RoboSolucio, joins me this week to discuss what the near term role of Robots will and won’t be on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

https://www.robosolucio.com

Chris Kocks is an innovator & leader with over twenty years of industry and consulting experience in IoT, robotics, communications, automotive, financial services, and manufacturing. He has extensive expertise in business development, product development/management, business metrics, marketing analytics, business intelligence, sales acquisition, segmentation, retention, and customer strategies.

RoboSolucio are leaders in creating innovative solutions in home and health monitoring. They are at the forefront of robotic advances and artificial intelligence. Their mission is to be dedicated to helping people keep their family members safe and feeling connected to their communities.

 

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For more information, go to www.QTSDataCenters.com

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Our Multiverse is Being Built, One Digital Twin at a Time with Ed Bursk

Block by Block and bit by bit we are recreating the physical world in the digital world. A Digital Twin is, “by definition” the exact representation of a physical object or process by a digital counterpart. Ed Bursk, Head of Digitalization/Automation.

 

About Our Guest:

Ed Bursk is an executive leader with a track record of success in aerospace & defense, government, and commercial markets globally, achieving or exceeding revenue, profit, and strategic targets for product and service businesses providing IT, OT, Cybersecurity, Networking, Telecommunications, Digitalization, and AI/ML enhanced Automation and Industrial Process & Energy Optimization solutions.

www.siemens.com

Siemens is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. Creating technologies for more resource-efficient factories and resilient supply chains to smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner, comfortable transportation and advanced healthcare, the company empowers customers to transform the industries that form the backbone of economies, transforming the everyday for billions of people.

 

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5G: Nursery Rhyme or Future Tech? with Dean Bubley

Is meaningful 5G Imminent or is Geo Politics playing us a lullaby while we wait for the low latency 5G Emperor to make a decision? Join Dave McCall as he discusses this and more with returning expert guest Dean Bubley.

About Our Guest:

www.deanbubley.com

Dean Bubley is the Founder of Disruptive Analysis. He is an independent technology industry analyst, futurist, speaker and consultant, with over 25 years’ experience. He specialises in wireless, telecoms and IoT fields. He is one of the leading analysts covering 5G, telco business models & regulation, the future of voice/video, and the emergence of technologies such as blockchain and AI.

As @disruptivedean on Twitter and through articles on the Disruptive Wireless blog & LinkedIn, he gives informed, contrarian commentary on the telecoms & IT industries, as well as policy and regulation. He speaks at 30+ events per year and is regularly quoted in the media. His clients include telcos, vendors, investors, regulators, industry bodies, government authorities and startups.

He also works collaboratively with a number of other leading experts & consultancies.

 

Visit The QTS Experience YouTube Channel for video versions of all the podcasts, and be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe!

For more information, go to www.QTSDataCenters.com

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Think you have a great topic for a podcast or would like to schedule an interview with Dave? Send in your requests here.