DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show
DCD Zero Downtime is DCD's editorially-led podcast. In each episode, our editorial team will be talking with leading members of the data center and digital infrastructure community, delving deeper into the future of the industry and its major challenges.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Episode 35 - Taking inspiration from the GSMA in a push to drive the broadband industry with Martin Creaner
The global interests of the mobile industry are represented by the GSM Association (GSMA).
This governing body was established in 1995 to support mobile operators using the GSM (Global System for Mo…
Episode 34 - When will quantum computers reach the data center? We talk to Chris Monroe, IonQ
Quantum computing is still pretty mysterious, but data center operators have real questions: when will they need installation and support? And how much cooling will they need?
Chris Monroe, chief sci…
Episode 33 - Empowering women in tech with Kelley Mullick, Iceotope
There has been an ongoing issue with the representation of women in the tech industry, but why?
In this episode, we talk to Kelley Mullick about her career to date, the factors that have helped her …
Episode 32 - Underground data centers with Andrew Bourget, Eccus
Having trouble finding a location for your data center project? This DCD podcast could have the answer. Build underground.
Andrew Bourget of Swiss engineering firm Eccus has a design for a 2MW data …
Episode 31 - Mark Bjornsgaard of Deep Green on heating swimming pools with data center heat
In March this year, a swimming pool in Devon, UK, was the unlikely setting for the most widely covered data center story (so far) of 2023.
A small immersion-cooled high-performance computing module …
Episode 30 - The state of cloud gaming and VR with Omdia's George Jijiashvili
Cloud gaming was heralded as the future of games, and was set to become a major data center workload. Now, after the death of Google Stadia and layoffs at Amazon's Luna, what's left for data center g…
Episode 29 - The nuclear energy silver bullet with Tony Grayson, Compass Data Centers and Alan Howard, OMDIA
As 2030 approaches, the pressure on data centers to meet their carbon pledges continues to increase. This, compounded with the challenge of energy supply insecurity and rising costs, is driving data …
Episode 28 - The future of hyperscale networking, with Juniper Networks' Mike Bushong
As data center demands grow, hyperscalers are building out vast networks that will help define the future of how infrastructure is interconnected. In the latest episode of the DCD Zero Downtime podca…
Episode 27 - The 2G and 3G switch-off and what it means for 5G and IoT with Wireless Logic Group CPO, Paul Bullock
Recently there’s been a number of mobile operators switching off their 3G networks around the world, or scheduling to phase out this old technology.
2G has also been spoken about at length, but has a…
Episode 26 - There's something about Maryland, with Quantum Loophole CEO Josh Snowhorn
As land and power in Virginia's Loudoun County become increasingly scarce, data center developers are seeking fresh ground on which build. While many are moving south within Virginia to the likes of …
Episode 25 - Meeting the pioneer of Meet-me rooms with Hunter Newby
Hunter Newby doesn't claim to have invented the Meet-Me Room, but he created one of the first, in the iconic and historical Manhattan facility, 60 Hudson Street, in about 1998
At the time data center…
Episode 24 - Immerse yourself in liquid cooling with NAAT CTO Julius Neudorfer
Join us for an extended discussion with CTO and founder of North American Access Technologies Julius Neudorfer about the history of liquid cooling, and where he sees the market developing in the futu…
Episode 23 - Exploring the Edge with AtlasEdge COO Zahl Limbuwala
Formed by DigitalBridge and Liberty Global, AtlasEdge has quickly become one of the Edge industry's largest players. We chat to COO Zahl Limbuwala about how it defines the Edge and where it places it…
Episode 22 - Understanding IT Efficiency with Rich Kenny, Interact managing director
For years, operators have been trying to make their data centers more efficient by optimizing the cooling and power distribution in the facility - and have more or less ignored the IT equipment in th…
Episode 21 - How to handle an outage, with Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming
In this episode, we talk to Cloudflare's CTO John Graham-Cumming about how to respond to an outage at your company. We also discuss why the company bans the use of the word "Edge," and talk about the…
Episode 20 - Talking photonic computing with Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris
Can light be used to compute? We talk to Nick Harris, CEO of chip startup Lightmatter, about how the company hopes to harness photons for AI computing and as a data center interconnect.
Episode 19 - Bits and bricks with Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp
What does a technologist do at a real estate company? We talk to Digital Realty's CTO Chris Sharp about the importance of understanding both bits and bricks, discuss the company's interconnection eff…
Episode 18 - The origin of the Internet of Things with Peter Lewis
Most people think the Internet of Things is a recent idea, maybe dating to around the year 2000. In fact, the idea is some 15 years older than that.
In 1985, the Internet was officially two years ol…
Episode 17 - The impact of climate legislation on digital infrastructure with Stephen Harper, global director of Intel
After a hiatus of several years, climate change policy is taking off in the US, with the Biden-Harris Administration using the Inflation Reduction Act and the Energy Earthshot to accelerate the clean…
Episode 16 - Green software with David Mytton, CEO and co-founder of Console
Efforts to reduce the environmental impact of our digital world tend to start with the cooling systems at data centers, and rarely get any further.
The tech industry created PUE as a simple metric wh…