7x24Exchange Board President Bob Cassiliano announced that the organization was very happy with its total attendance of 539 at their 3-1/2 day Fall Event, still underway in Palm Desert, CA. Besides really enjoying the nice weather, I am thoroughly enjoying the beautiful weather. Tonight’s networking event also promises to be fun.

As I mentioned in our just published e-newsletter, the organization has chosen to salute the increased levels of cooperation within the industry. Ken Brill of the Uptime Institute delivered a keynote on day two that focused in economics in the data center. Speaker. Brill acknowledged Datacenter Dynamics and AFCOM, among many others, during his talk.

Developments like this confirm my feeling that the many organizations active in the industry are gradually establishing separate identities based on their relative strengths and exhibiting the confidence to begin working together to our common goals. I credited all of these speakers and groups for their increased levels of cooperation in my editorial in our recently published Fall 2008 editorial, which I wrote almost 6 weeks ago.

Mission Critical readers should benefit from these developments. The 7x24Exchange’s program lineup features numerous speakers who would be very familiar to readers of the publication and those who have attended our webinars. Sun's Dean Nelson and Microsoft's Mike Manos and Christian Belady are three such individuals. They delivered frank, detailed reports.

Event organizers also allowed Gilbane's Dennis Cronin and me a few moments to describe the results of a survey we conducted as part of our Open Forum webinar last week. Look for more information on the Forum blog on this page later in the week.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the first day’s webinar, which was given by James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers. In an hour-long presentation, Bradley recounted his father’s role in planting the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima during World War II and how each of the six marines fared after their identities became known.

It’s a moving and inspiring story, made more so as Bradley recounted his efforts to bring the full story to the general public. He signed books for hundreds of people after his talk.

I’ll be bringing more news from this event and also from the upcoming Datacenter Dynamics event in Dallas, December 11th.

In a similar vein, I'd like to call attention to the CFRT's next meeting on Thursday. The event features a peer-to-peer review and is being held at Broadcom Corp.'s Data Center in San Jose, CA. CFRT and SVLG owner/operator members and guests are invited to participate. Broadcom is interested in collaborating with professionals that manage large enterprise data center environments. The CFRT believes that this event will benefit both facilities and IT staff from the same company that work together with data center management issues in scale. More information can be found at www.cfroundtable.org.

7x24Exchange Board President Bob Cassiliano announced that the organization was very happy with its total attendance of 539 at their 3-1/2 day Fall Event, still underway in Palm Desert, CA. Besides really enjoying the nice weather, I am thoroughly enjoying the beautiful weather. Tonight’s networking event also promises to be fun.

As I mentioned in our just published e-newsletter, the organization has chosen to salute the increased levels of cooperation within the industry. Ken Brill of the Uptime Institute delivered a keynote on day two that focused in economics in the data center. Speaker. Brill acknowledged Datacenter Dynamics and AFCOM, among many others, during his talk.

Developments like this confirm my feeling that the many organizations active in the industry are gradually establishing separate identities based on their relative strengths and exhibiting the confidence to begin working together to our common goals. I credited all of these speakers and groups for their increased levels of cooperation in my editorial in our recently published Fall 2008 editorial, which I wrote almost 6 weeks ago.

Mission Critical readers should benefit from these developments. The 7x24Exchange’s program lineup features numerous speakers who would be very familiar to readers of the publication and those who have attended our webinars. Sun's Dean Nelson and Microsoft's Mike Manos and Christian Belady are three such individuals. They delivered frank, detailed reports.

Event organizers also allowed Gilbane's Dennis Cronin and me a few moments to describe the results of a survey we conducted as part of our Open Forum webinar last week. Look for more information on the Forum blog on this page later in the week.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the first day’s webinar, which was given by James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers. In an hour-long presentation, Bradley recounted his father’s role in planting the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima during World War II and how each of the six marines fared after their identities became known.

It’s a moving and inspiring story, made more so as Bradley recounted his efforts to bring the full story to the general public. He signed books for hundreds of people after his talk.

I’ll be bringing more news from this event and also from the upcoming Datacenter Dynamics event in Dallas, December 11th.

In a similar vein, I'd like to call attention to the CFRT's next meeting on Thursday. The event features a peer-to-peer review and is being held at Broadcom Corp.'s Data Center in San Jose, CA. CFRT and SVLG owner/operator members and guests are invited to participate. Broadcom is interested in collaborating with professionals that manage large enterprise data center environments. The CFRT believes that this event will benefit both facilities and IT staff from the same company that work together with data center management issues in scale. More information can be found at www.cfroundtable.org.