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Innovation in the Silicon Valley Deborah Grove of Grove Associates blogs regularly about initiatives in the Silicon Valley. In this interview with Kevin Heslin, she tells first hand about changes affecting the industry, immediately following a panel discussion at Teladata's Technology Convergence Conference in February 2009. For more videos, visit the Mission Critical video archive.

Kevin Bacon Where Are You?

You may remember that I blogged in this space about a Social Media experiment I ran, with the goal of adding Kevin Bacon as a Facebook friend. Embarrassingly, a few hours later I read about the number of Facebook spoof pages. I never heard from Kevin. I'd say I fell for the oldest trick in the book, but this was Facebook so how old could it be? 

Still, Mission Critical has been successfully using Twitter, LinkedIn, webinars, and its in-house blogs to develop and disseminate information. I just blogged results from polls taking during our March 19th webinar (further down on the page). Fascinating results, including the continuing resistance to measure PUE in data centers. Almost 70 percent did not measure PUE according to our snap poll.

I've been using Twitter to follow discussions of Google's April 1 tour of its data centers. I won't recap what I read here because you can follow these discussions yourself. But please make a point to read Deb Grove's and Dave Ohara's takes on the event, as they each covered something out of the mainstream. Blogs like these and the Twitter and YouTube posts I have seen mean that the content of the Google event has already travelled around the world and back.

The fascinating thing about the Internet is how it facilitates two-way communications, and that's why Mission Critical wants to be a leader in social media. You probably already know that I use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, an enewsletter, and a couple of blogs to increase awareness of our webinar series; otherwise you wouldn't be reading this blog. I encourage you to follow me in all these venues. 

Still many days these efforts still seem like one-way efforts, unless I remember to do my part. 

We collect some fascinating data during our webinars. Gilbane's Dennis Cronin and I shared some of this information at last fall's 7x24Exchange. I'm moderating a panel at their Spring event (May 31-June 3) in Boca Raton, and I plan to share some data from our March cooling webinar during that session.

But before that I wanted to share some online poll results with you.

• 35% expect the economy to have no effect on building plans
• only 5.4% see project cancellations
• more than 16% expect to see an expansion in 2009 or 2010 of greater than 20,000 square feet
• Almost 70% of our attendees do not measure PUE.

• Of those who do, almost 80% have PUEs greater than 1.5

I'll be sharing more information with as the months go on, and please feel free to contact me with your questions or concerns. In fact, you could post an on-line response to this blog.

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