Kevin Heslin is editor of Mission Critical. Previously he was editor of Energy and Power Management. Heslin offers commentary on a wide-ranging number of topics, from news about Mission Critical to developments worldwide that affect the industry.
While much of the tech world reacted to the death of Steve Jobs, the facility-dominated audience at DatacenterDynamics seemed hardly to notice, even though Jobs changed IT in a way that will ripple through the data center industry for years to come.
A few weeks, I blogged about Mission Critical’snew website, which was scheduled to launch in late September. Frankly, the old website was showing its age, and much of the back of the house system was just obsolete. The new system, by contrast, not only supports the new design but it also puts tools in our hands that allow us to add functionality.
My thanks go to to Robert Jenkins, CTO of CloudSigma, for allowing me to accompany him on a tour of the SuperNap, while I was at the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit in Las Vegas this week.
Last night, I was playing Words with Friends on my iPad with a half-dozen sprinkled from within a few feet to as far as 1,800 miles when suddenly the game wouldn't update. I checked every connection and reset every setting, before I giving up and calling tech support at my ISP.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, I remember people saying, "If we do this, the terrorists will have already won." Often, the conversation would be about proposed security measures, personal or business travel plans, or some military or intelligence activity.
Not long ago, Mission Critical launched a new column, Talent Matters by Andy Lane to cover personnel challenges faced by data center operators and to help industry professionals cope in a challenging job market.