SearchDataCenter.com relies on our team of experts and IT folks in the trenches to help us focus our coverage and deliver the best data center advice and news possible. The following distinguished individuals serve on SearchDataCenter.com's DataCenter Advisory Board.
Christian Belady, P.E., principal power and cooling architect, Microsoft
A recognized leader in the industry, Christian Belady is Microsoft's principal power and cooling architect for Global Foundation Services, where his role is to improve both efficiency and cost in its online services infrastructure. In addition, his responsibilities included driving initiatives for sustainability in the data center and infrastructure space.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Belady was a distinguished technologist at Hewlett-Packard Co., where his responsibilities included driving the technology direction in HP's server products and its environments as well as driving industry data center initiatives. His earlier employers include Convex Computers (acquired by HP), TI and IBM.
With more than 66 U.S. patents, Belady is an ASME Fellow, an IMAPS Fellow and a founding member of ASHRAE's Technical Comittee 9.9, which is responsible for developing data center guidelines. He was one of the early architects of the Green Grid and continues to participate actively with the group. He also works closely with government agencies globally to define efficiency metrics for data centers and servers.
Belady has published numerous papers and has been a featured speaker on power and cooling trends at events across the industry. Since the late 1990s, he has focused on data centers and the industry's need for engineering-efficient computing environments. Belady has a bachelor's and a master's degree in engineering from Cornell University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, respectively, and a business degree from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Bill Bradford, senior systems administrator, SunHELP.ORG
Bill Bradford is a Solaris and Red Hat Certified Engineer system administrator with more than 10 years of industry experience. He runs SunHELP.org and MacHELP.org and volunteers his spare time assisting users of those platforms. Bradford is a senior systems administrator for an energy services firm in Houston, Texas.
Bradford is also a Unix columnist for SearchDataCenter.com and has authored the following articles:
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Michael Coté, analyst, RedMonk
Michael Coté is an analyst at RedMonk, covering primarily enterprise software and specializing in open source, IT management, software development, collaborative, the Web, and social/collaborative software. He is RedMonk's IT management lead. He also writes the People over Process blog and produces the RedMonk podcast and videocast RedMonkTV.
Technobabble 2.0, a popular blog about analyst relations, ranked Coté's blog No. 8 in its Top 100 analyst blogs list. And the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations recently named Coté as the third most regarded analyst in the U.S. and fifth most regarded anayst globally .
Robert Crawford, lead systems programmer, mainframe columnist
Robert Crawford is a lead systems programmer who has more than 25 years of experience with mainframes. His duties have included installation, debugging, configuration and tuning of infrastructure systems in a parallel Sysplex environment. He has also participated in disaster recovery planning and testing. He also lends a hand in application design and tech support.
He holds a bachelor's degree in computing science from Texas A&M University and lives in South Texas with his family.
Crawford is a regular columnist for SearchDataCenter.com and provdes expert responses and advice on mainframe-related questions on IT Knowledge Exchange (ITKE), SearchDataCenter.com's blog for data center practitioners.
Chuck Goolsbee, data center manager and SearchDataCenter.com blogger
Chuck Goolsbee is an executive at colocation provider digital.forest in Seattle, Wash. He has achieved notoriety blogging about the obsolescence of raised floor in the data center and for threatening to gas server designers from Dell with FM200. In his spare time, he enjoys wrangling geeks and tuning SU Carburettors.
Robert McFarlane, president, data center design expert, Shen Milsom Wilke Inc.
Robert McFarlane is the president of the Interport Division of Shen Milsom Wilke Inc. He has spent more than 30 years in communications consulting, with experience in every segment of the industry, including cable design, fiber optics, data communications, telephony, financial trading systems, data centers, satellite earth stations, video and multimedia, and acoustics.
He is a regular contributor to SearchDataCenter.com. You can read his data center design advice columns here. He also answers data center design questions on ITKE.
Kyle Rankin , senior systems architect and author
Kyle Rankin is a systems architect for Quinstreet Inc.; the current president of the North Bay Linux Users' Group; the author of Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks, and Ubuntu Hacks; and a contributer to a number of other O'Reilly books. Rankin is also a columnist for Linux Journal and has written for PC Magazine, TechTarget websites and other publications.
Robert Rosen, CIO, mainframe user group leader
Robert Rosen is the past president of IBM computer user group Share Inc. Currently, he serves as the CIO at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Ben Stewart, senior vice president of facility engineering, Terremark
Ben Stewart came to Terremark five years ago with 25 years of military experience as a commander in the U. S. Coast Guard. As the senior vice president of facility engineering, Stewart and his team are responsible for the design, building and commissioning of new data center floor space. This includes power, cooling, security, layer zero and layer-one infrastructure, life safety and facility management systems.
Stewart received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, a master's in electrical engineering from the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School and a master's in business administration from Monmouth University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, the lead faculty/area chair for networks and telecommunications at the University of Phoenix, and the president of the Miami Chapter of AFCOM.
Stewart was also named as one of SearchDataCenter.com's 2008 data center managers of the year.
