Call me crazy, but let me describe the contest. I don’t think anything like this has ever done before, but then again, if you told me 5 years ago I would be tweeting 140 characters – I would of called you crazy!

Contest Details:

• Goal: Find the best candidate enterprise data center and team for a real world energy usage pilot
• The Rules: You need to be serious about saving energy and have a enterprise data center that could use some efficiency gains
• The Challenge: Be willing to instrument your data center and collect power and cooling data with non-invasive sensors
• My Commitment: I’ll invest the time, instrumentation, and energy savings expertise to make you a corporate rock star!
• Your Commitment: Your time, data center and current energy challenges. Maybe ASHRAE has you thinking?
• The Fear: You are going to measure real power, cooling and gain visibility into your data center environment. Measurement creates fear in some people. It’s like stage fright. You’ll need to overcome this initial fear and be adventuresome. You also need to like math – since we’re going to be doing some calculations!
• The Reward: Visibility and real data that you can action and use to increase your power efficiency. That means “YOU WILL SAVE MONEY!!!”
• Sign Up: Contact me on Linkedin or send an email to discuss further. (both are listed in the top RHS of my blog too)

Super Stars Only!

If you are real serious and have the interest, then I’d like to explore adding a twist of social media to this contest. I do understand enterprise constraints concerning PID’s, NDA’s etc – but if you could share some basic findings or general best practices – this would be helpful to others. Enterprises need good examples and stories to sell upper management. As an example, imagine a YouTube channel that hosts a weekly 1-2 minute video on what we are doing, experiencing and learning. Nothing complicated, raw format that just shares our adventure. Remember – this is about something good – saving energy and letting others know that there are things they can do in their data center. Good PR and good corporate thought leadership is what I am talking about!

Btw…the interaction and relationship between customer/vendor is changing. If you follow Social Media, Enterprise 2.0 or Sales 2.0 – collaboration and transparency are the new trends to adopt. This contest represents a step in that direction and I hope you appreciate my approach in looking for a great data center candidate to work with.

Reach me directly to discuss further!