The QTS Experience

The CIO Whisperer with Michael Snyder

This week I sit down with CIO’s and thought leaders in a 4 part series recorded at the ATP CIO Charity Golf Tournament in Atlanta. In this first episode, Michael Snyder and I discuss how to ensure that digital transform leads to a healthy, reimagined post pandemic environment on the next, QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

As Senior Vice President, Advisory Services at Advocate, Michael manages Advocate’s Optimization, Transformation, Strategy, and Insider Marketplace practices. These practices consist of seasoned consultants and solution architects that work with enterprises to drive the efficient use of technology and enable business outcomes utilizing Advocate’s proven methodologies and the Technology Business Management framework. Prior to joining the Advocate team, Michael spent five years at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he built a global business focused on assisting private equity firms to leverage the cloud to drive value within their portfolio companies. In addition to his work at AWS, Michael spent five years at Booz & Company (now, Strategy) in their Digital and Business Transformation practice where he completed projects across various industries focused on IT strategy, digital transformation, and digital product development. He also spent six years at BB&T leading a team focused on IT process improvement. Michael has an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Clemson University. He resides in Atlanta with his wife Mary Alise and his daughter, Lily.

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Ecocentrism vs. Technocentrism with Dan Scarbrough

Can technology resolve the challenges mankind is creating to preserve the planet for future generations?

Ecocentrism (meaning values centered on ecology) and technocentrism (meaning values centered on technology) are two opposing perspectives concerning attitudes towards human technology and its ability to affect, control and even protect the environment. Today, most people still believe in the necessity of human progress.
In the podcast, Dan and Dave address this from multiple perspectives.

About Our Guest:

Dan Scarbrough is the co-founder of Data Center Dynamics, a leading voice of the data center industry since 2001 and was CEO until 2013.

Having worked in the data center and cloud infrastructure industry since its inception, Dan has an intricate understanding of this rapidly developing sector. After stepping down from DCD, Dan created RockScar as a holding company to capitalize on the industry understanding and global network that he had built over the last twenty years.

He is currently working on his next media and events project with the launch of Digital Infrastructure Partners a group of like-minded individuals focused on moving the global market towards sustainable digital infrastructure.

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Sustainability as a Culture with Eric Gertsman

We all know about Software as a Service, it was essentially invented by Salesforce. Eric Gertsman, Director, Data Center Planning & Sustainability, explains how the world’s largest CRM has woven sustainability into its DNA – on the next QTS Experience.

 

About Our Guest:

Eric is a high-energy innovator and implementer. He has worked with clients in multiple sectors to transform business problems into actionable strategies, wearing multiple hats to achieve goals: strategy development, program and project management, marketing and business development, data analysis, change management, process optimization, writing, research, and more. In addition to energy management and sustainability, Eric has worked extensively in the technology and consumer industries.

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SMART Data Centers: Sending Infrastructure to School with Brent Bensten

Brent Bensten, CTO of QTS Datacenters, shares what a SMART Datacenter is and how it leverages data to drive efficiency, enhance security, and reduce environmental impact … on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

Brent joined QTS in 2016 as CTO of Product Development and now serves as the Company’s Chief Technology Officer. Brent has led technology and innovation at QTS since joining and has been the driving force behind digitization of the QTS business.

Prior to joining QTS, Brent was VP of Operations and then promoted to Chief Technology Officer at Carpathia, a managed service and cloud company acquired by QTS in June of 2015. Carpathia specialized in complex and compliant hosting supporting the fastest growing startups, enterprises and government agencies.

During his time at QTS, he has been responsible for delivering the industry’s first Service Delivery Platform (SDP). In 2019, he created the QTS Innovation Lab (QIL) to create new enabling technologies with a focus on artificial intelligence, visualization and automation that radically reshape how customers interact with the data center providing transparency, visibility and digital services.

Brent graduated from University of Mary Washington in 2000 with a degree in Business. Brent has a passion for workplace health initiatives including sponsoring events such as annual blood drives and helping to gamify fitness initiatives between QTS offices. Brent values family first and most enjoys watching his three kids play sports on weekends; he’s also a die-hard Washington Caps fan.

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