Not Your Father’s Data Center
Hosted by Compass Chief Customer Officer, Raymond Hawkins, Not Your Father’s Data Center doesn’t only talk about data centers, but anything and everything of interest in our industry.
- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 74
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Satellites & The Cloud with Doug Mohney
Data has moved from the building filling mainframes of the 60's technology to satellite gathering machine learning and AI processing at the speed of light. Megabytes have turned into Petabytes, leavi…
Leadership in an Evolving Workplace
Host Raymond Hawkins discovered that despite lacking formal leadership training, Cy Wakeman, President & Founder of Reality Based Leadership, has written a plethora of books in the leadership genre.
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Mining for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with Fred Thiel
Fred Thiel, CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, one of the largest bitcoin mining operations in North America, joined host Raymond Hawkins to discuss cryptocurrency. From blockchain to bitcoin, Thiel c…
Cyber Security: Protecting the Family Jewels
On this episode of Not Your Father’s Data Center, a Compass Datacenters Podcast, Host Raymond Hawkins talked with Amit Serper, Vice President of Security Research for North America of Guardicore, the…
Ethics of AI with Peter Judge
When the world thinks about ethical AI, thoughts wander to movie portrayals of intelligent machines used for nefarious reasons. In the real world, that’s still a possibility, but many point to AI as …
The State of Innovative Liquid Cooling in Data Centers
Isn’t the first rule in data centers not to get the servers wet? They’re kind of like Gremlins in that way. But someone forgot to tell Daniel Pope this fact.
Pope, the CEO of Submer, thinks data serv…
Quantum Computing Vs. Classical Computing – The Tale of the Tape
On this episode of Not Your Father’s Data Center, a Compass Datacenters Podcast, host Raymond Hawkins talked with Dr. Robert Sutor, Chief Quantum Exponent at IBM Research, about how quantum computing…
How the Internet, Fueled by Data Centers, Changed the News Industry
On this episode of Not Your Father’s Data Center, a podcast From Compass Data Centers, host Raymond Hawkins talked with Rich Miller, Founder and Editor of Data Center Frontier, a digital publication …
Backup Power Generation in Data Storage with Natural Gas
In the data center world, when one mentions a backup power generator, one assumes diesel. Enchanted Rock Chief Commercial Officer Allan Schurr said it’s time to think differently. Enchanted Rock’s so…
It Always Comes Down to Power
It is hard to believe, but there is a significant amount of megawatts that goes unused in global data centers. On this episode of the Not Your Father's Data Center Podcast, Host Raymond Hawkins of Co…
A Look at Schneider Electric’s Approach to Innovation and Data Centers
Host Raymond Hawkins found time to pull himself away from watching The Masters to chat with Schneider Electric’s Vice President of Innovation and Data Centers, Steven Carlini, for an insider’s peek a…
Changing the World Through Quantum Computing with Dr. Bob Sutor
The phrase, ‘The future is now,’ without question, applies to quantum computers. What was not so long ago a science fiction fantasy is now a reality that’s not only closer than one might think, it’s …
Commercializing Space by Taking the Edge to the Final Frontier
The modern world is driven by data and our ability to analyze it, and the final frontier – space – provides an overwhelming amount of data just waiting to help us understand and commercialize what li…
Unpacking AI and Machine Learning
AI and machine learning are common terms, but they are complex with many applications. Understanding this is critical, and Not Your Father’s Data Center Podcast is back to unpack the terms with guest…
#Hire the person, not the paper
Carrie Goetz, Chief Information Technology Officer at StrategITcom, International Keynote Speaker, STEM evangelist and podcaster, turned the tables on host Raymond Hawkins by dubbing this podcast epi…
Concrete Innovations at Compass Datacenters
Nancy Novak, Chief Innovation Officer, Compass Datacenters is a firm believer that innovation comes in different forms, and she knows it’s people, processes and systems that drive innovations.
Those …
The Ins and Outs of Financing Digital Infrastructure
Digital infrastructure is a common term in the data center industry, but it wasn’t always. So, how did the industry evolve to the notion that technology is infrastructure? It’s been a long journey, b…
How an Industry Veteran Was Drawn to Compass Datacenters
Nancy Novak had made up her mind. She was retired. But, just like her last retirement, this one didn’t stick. This time, however, she was only out of the workforce for one day.
After that brief inte…
A 2020 Year in Review on Digital Strategy Trends
Haynes Strader, Vice President of Data Center Solutions, CBRE, returned to Not Your Father’s Data Center for a look back and assessment of one of the craziest years in recent memory. To summarize the…
A Career Path for Veterans in the Data Center Industry
Lee Kirby, Cofounder and Chairman of Salute Mission Critical, wanted to use his 36 years of military experience to help veterans and their families. Drawing upon 30 years of information systems, stra…