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The most valuable commodity on earth today is data. How we make it, use it, move it & protect it. Join David McCall as he invites guests from all industries to talk about how they use data to drive their business & innovation in their market.
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Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Think about all the ways you use your tablet or phone. Banking, Shopping Healthcare, Gaming, Home Security, your job … it all lives on that mobile device or laptop. Bill Cook joins me this week as we discuss vulnerabilities in how these devices are connected and what should we be thinking about going forward – on the next QTS Experience.
About Our Guest: Bill Cook, with over 30 years of leadership in developing and operating bandwidth infrastructure networks, has demonstrated a proven commitment to delivering effective results and creating value for investors, customers, and employees. In 2012, Cook founded SummitIG and led the company’s unprecedented growth in Northern Virginia, the world’s largest data center market. He served as the company’s CEO until March 2019. He continues to serve as an advisor to SummitIG, and expertise and entrepreneurial style keeps him busy consulting to private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure firms.
Prior to SummitIG, Cook was instrumental in launching Intellifiber Networks, serving as its VP of Service Delivery and Operations. As Senior Director of Project Management at OnFiber Communications, he not only successfully managed the implementation of network augments, but also demonstrated his unique ability to create effective customer solutions. This skill was also recognized during his years as Senior Director of Network Development for Metromedia Fiber Networks, constructing and operating most of their West Coast and Central US markets.
Cook began his career at MCI, acquiring rights-of-way for its national network build-out and ultimately leading the Program Management organization. Additionally, his career has included serving in leadership roles with FiberNet, KDL and Zayo. Cook holds a BA from the University of Mississippi. He remains an active member with the National Eagle Scout Association. source: https://techsummit.olemiss.edu/team/bill-cook/
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Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
All intelligent people today are talking about Sustainable energy – How do we buy it, how do we source it, and how do we use it. This is particularly true if you’re a very large consumer of those resources, and Data centers are. But in order to use renewable energy you have to have energy storage to carry the load when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining – so how does that work, and how do we use machine learning and data analytics to make the best decisions? .. Professor Daniel Kammen, Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at UC Berkley, explains how on the next QTS Experience.
About Our Guest:
Dr. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He was appointed the first Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) Fellow by Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton in April 2010.
Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center. He has founded or is on the board of over 10 companies, and has served the State of California and US federal government in expert and advisory capacities.
Dr. Kammen was educated in physics at Cornell and Harvard, and held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard. He was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University before moving to the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kammen has served as a contributing or coordinating lead author on various reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1999. The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He serves on the Advisory Committee for Energy & Environment for the X-Prize Foundation.
During 2010-2011 Kammen served as the World Bank Group’s Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. He was appointed to this newly-created position in October 2010, in which he provided strategic leadership on policy, technical, and operational fronts. The aim is to enhance the operational impact of the Bank’s renewable energy and energy efficiency activities while expanding the institution’s role as an enabler of global dialogue on moving energy development to a cleaner and more sustainable pathway.
He has authored or co-authored 12 books, written more than 300 peer-reviewed journal publications, testified more than 40 times to U.S. state and federal congressional briefings, and has provided various governments with more than 50 technical reports. Dr. Kammen also served for many years on the Technical Review Board of the Global Environment Facility. He is a frequent contributor to or commentator in international news media, including Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Financial Times. Kammen has appeared on 60 Minutes (twice), Nova, Frontline, and hosted the six-part Discovery Channel series Ecopolis. Dr. Kammen is a Permanent Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society. In the US, he serves on two National Academy of Sciences boards and panels.
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Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Data Centers are literally where the ideas of the whole world live. Think about it – Cloud, eCommerce, Social Media – all of them live in a Data Center. Without a data center there is no distance learning or remote office. My guest Don Mitchell argues that data center design, operations, and build need to evolve right now or risk extinction – on the next QTS Experience.
About our Guest: Don Mitchell has 20+ years in mission critical solution leadership in design, operation, and delivery in both in data centers, missile systems, and nuclear submarines. In his current role, Don manages the global business development and alignment of Victaulic business unit resources with data center industry needs for zero impact fire suppression, as well as innovation in cooling solution designs, optimizing delivery speed, system performance and reliability. Don has more than 15 years of experience in holistic data center solution development (power, cooling, monitoring, management), including hyper-scale, enterprise, and hybrid cloud solution environments.
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Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
What do data centers and forests have in common? In this episode, I sit down with CEO of American Forest, Jad Daley. I was amazed at how relevant our conversation was for today. Bringing together science and technology through big data and analytics with a heart for managing our natural resources in a smart and bi partisan way – you will love this conversation – on the next QTS experience.
About American Forests: "We have worked longer than any national nonprofit conservation organization in the United States to protect and restore the country’s forests. Since our founding in 1875, we have been the pathfinders for the forest conservation movement. In the early 1900s, for example, we rallied forest advocates to champion creation of the U.S. Forest Service. In 2018, we won a decade-long campaign persuading Congress to provide stable funding for preventing and fighting forest fires. Now we are focused on building a reforestation movement in America, from cities to large, rural landscapes. We all rely on forests in order to survive and thrive, given the power they have to filter our air and water, provide jobs, mitigate climate change and more. But our forests are being degraded and destroyed at a rapid pace and large scale. If we take care of our forests, they will take care of us." https://www.americanforests.org
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Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
How are athletes becoming so much stronger, training more efficiently, healing faster? With data of course. Dr Bret Myers Professor of Data Analytics at Villanova and consultant to the professional soccer team the Columbus Crew joins me this week to discuss how big data is transforming the world in general and athletics in particular.
About our guest: Bret has served as a University professor since 2006 teaching courses in analytics and operations management at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As of 2020, he was appointed Faculty Academic Director of Sports Initiatives at Villanova School of Business. His area of research is in the use of analytics to improve decision processes for sports businesses, both in the delivery of a product on the field, and the management of operations to meet other strategic objectives. He is active in publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals, attending and presenting at sports analytics related conferences, and consulting with professional organizations. Bret’s past consulting roles were with the Philadelphia Union (2013), and Toronto FC (2014-2019), and now he has taken on a role with Columbus Crew SC as of June 2019.
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Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
How are athletes becoming so much stronger, training more efficiently, healing faster? With data of course. Dr Bret Myers Professor of Data Analytics at Villanova and consultant to the professional soccer team the Columbus Crew joins me this week to discuss how big data is transforming the world in general and athletics in particular.
About our guest: Bret has served as a University professor since 2006 teaching courses in analytics and operations management at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As of 2020, he was appointed Faculty Academic Director of Sports Initiatives at Villanova School of Business. His area of research is in the use of analytics to improve decision processes for sports businesses, both in the delivery of a product on the field, and the management of operations to meet other strategic objectives. He is active in publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals, attending and presenting at sports analytics related conferences, and consulting with professional organizations. Bret’s past consulting roles were with the Philadelphia Union (2013), and Toronto FC (2014-2019), and now he has taken on a role with Columbus Crew SC as of June 2019.
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Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Virtually every single part of our world requires collaboration tools that live in a Data Center. Business, Education, Healthcare, Governance, Banking, Social Media, Entertainment, it is all being knit together in a data center. Rich Miller and David McCall talk through how successful data centers are innovating in response to this incredible need on The QTS Experience.
About our guest:
Rich Miller Data Center Frontier https://datacenterfrontier.com/ "Data Center Frontier charts the future of data centers and cloud computing. We write about what’s next for the Internet, and the innovations that will take us there. The data center is our prism. We tell the story of the digital economy through the facilities that power the cloud and the people who build them. In writing about data centers and thought leaders, we explain the importance of how and where these facilities are built, how they are powered, and their impact on the Internet and the communities around them."
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Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Instant speed, digital transactions are no longer a science fiction idea. They have been well integrated into our society. But the banking industry is an old industry, and can be difficult to turn toward new innovation. This week's guest, U.S. Bank's Elizabeth Hoemeke, Sr. VP of IT Strategy and Global Business Services, introduces to Dave the ideas, concepts, and strategies of how she and her team push U.S. Bank to the front of the banking sector's innovation, beyond just an online customer portal or small POS devices. Join Dave and Elizabeth dive into the high stakes world of digital banking and their push for new technology, this week, on the QTS Experience.
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Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Right now, almost all of our public facilities are empty; schools, office buildings, shopping malls, etc. All of that activity has shifted online. In this Post-COVID reality, data centers are facilitating how the whole world stays connected. This week I’m joined by Tim Huffman from CB Richard Ellis. Tim is a data center and telecom market expert who is bringing his expertise to explain how the data center community is pivoting and accelerating to meet the connectivity challenges and also the new emerging trends around data privacy and security. All this and more on this week's the QTS Experience.
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Imagine having to build a 30 year facility to host infrastructure that changes every 5 years. Yeah, that’s a data center. Chris McLean articulates that making parts of the data center modular actually solves a lot of the challenges in that scenario – on this week's episode of the QTS Experience.
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