Great Culture Makes Great Business - Episode 41 - Ed Henigin

02/07/20 • 92 min

Data Foundry is one of the oldest privately owned data center companies in the world. They've managed to build a highly profitable business and survive a number of economic downturns over two and half decades by sticking to their core values and being highly selective about the clients they work with. In this interview I have the privilege of talking to their CTO, Edward Henigin, who has been with the company since inception. We discuss how he migrated from Hawaii to Illinois to Texas and the lessons learned over the years watching an ISP quickly evolve into a data center company. Data center technology, corporate culture, industry evolution and much more is all covered in this podcast!

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Network is the Wild Wild West - Episode 040 - Erik Knight

SD-WAN has been hyped for a few years now as a "game changer" in the industry that will replace WAN MPLS networks. I have definitely seen a rise in the numer of clients and consultants starting to deploy these solutions lately, and can clearly understand the value in the visibility and control these environments provide end users over their networks. Much like Cloud Computing however, nearly every network service provider is now claiming to have some form of SD-WAN solution. In an attempt to better understand the myriad of options available and the underlying technology behind the solution I pulled in Erik Knight, Founder and CEO of SimpleWAN to talk shop as he was one of the first people to explain this solution to me years ago. Erik is a seasoned entrepreneur and technologist with a big heart and I am positive you'll enjoy this conversation on many levels. Enjoy! You can find MicroCorp's SD WAN provider matrix here: https://www.microcorp.com/sd-wan-form/

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Hyperscale Level Performance to the Multi-tenant Colocation Market - Episode 42 - Jake Ring

Given how little innovation has gone on in the commercial data center colocation industry as of late, I was skeptical when someone told me the GIGA Data Center located north of Charlotte, NC was delivering a product that was unique. Although modular data centers are nothing new, I was definitely impressed by the novel approach they have gone about deploying their solution and re-thinking the layout of a data center to drive maximum efficiency. Jake Ring, Co-Founder and CEO, spent time with me talking shop and geeking out about some of the technology they've implemented and lessons learned watching said technology evolve to where it is today.