Data Center Pulse & Data Center Certification

It's been far too long since my last post, my apologies.

The last 3 months have been a combination of tiring and exciting. We created a board of directors for Data Center Pulse, and we developed and then held our first DCP summit, but it was all well worth it. The Summit was a big success. We had over 15% of our membership participate, including new chapters in the Netherlands and India. While the local (Santa Clara) group was working in person we also had people contributing on-line. At the end of the day when we'd compiled our day's work the results were uploaded for our remote chapters to look over. Both the Indian and the Netherlands chapters then added their own content and shipped it back. All this was done in the course of 24 hours (1 full day). On the second day of the summit we presented our findings to the entire group and then after polishing the presentations a little we presenting the findings again to the "Industry" group. On the 3rd day we presented the Top 10 at the Technology Convergence Conference. The response from folks during and after the presentation showed we had struck a nerve. People are realizing that DCP has the potential to fill a gap that has been open for way too long.

I have always enjoyed collaborating instead of working alone and I can tell you the team work and collaboration was outstanding during the summit. We had outstanding participation from some very smart people and the content of our presentations shows it.

One of the tracks from the DCP Summit was "Data Center Certification". This track has now become an on-line project and I'm actively looking for volunteers from Industry and DCP membership. I've already spoken with the DoE about partnering with them and they are interested. I'm also looking at contacting similar groups outside the U.S. If you're interested in participating please send a message to me or through Feedback@datacenterpulse.com.

Check out www.datacenterpulse.org if you’d like to learn more about DCP.

Mark