Articles by Brant Bernet

• Brant Bernet: Spanish Sardines and Your Data Center

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  Data Center

  Patience isn’t always a virtue—to which anyone who has been told to “be patient, our servers are down, but give it a few minutes and we’ll be up and running” can attest. We live in a time where we expect everything to happen now. I don’t mean today, or in the next hour, I mean in this very instant.

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• Brant Bernet: Frogs, Home, and Your Data Center

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  Data Center

  I can’t imagine a more active data center market than Dallas today. Hammers are swinging and lights are blinking. And believe it or not, demand seems to be keeping up.

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• Brant Bernet: Baseball Stadiums and Your Data Center

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  Data Center

  Will data centers change the world? They might. But for now I am satisfied watching them take tiny steps along the way to improve the way cities run, the way economies perform, and the way we use our valuable natural resources.

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• Brant Bernet: A Different Kind of Identity Theft

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  Data Center

  I didn’t go into the office on Good Friday. In fact, I have never worked on Good Friday, but rarely has my decision to play hooky had such a gripping impact on me.

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• Brant Bernet: A Car Ride to Florida and Data Centers

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  Data Center

  To modify a quote from 20th century philosopher Jeff Foxworthy, “If you drive one car to the panhandle of Florida with your wife, five grown children, and two big dogs, just so you can trailer your beach toys and a couple of bicycles … you might be a redneck.” That was the scene at the Bernet house this past Christmas break.

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• Brant Bernet: Sunkist Oranges and your Data Center

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  Data Center

  Were you careful to “look under the hood” before you signed a long term contract for your data center? Did you know what you were getting because you spent the necessary time in your due diligence period and did you ask all the right questions? More important, did you get all the right answers?

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• Brant Bernet: Shishito Peppers, Green Worms, and Data Centers

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  I am a gardener. If not for the long hours, back-breaking work, and sheer unpredictability of crops, I think I would have made a good farmer. Actually, probably not. I do love the idea of strolling into my backyard garden, pulling a carrot out of the ground, giving it a quick rinse with cold water from the well, and then eating it whole in all its earthy goodness. In that particular dream, the carrot even tastes good.

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• Brant Bernet: Irene, Data Centers, and Camping

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  Over the last 20 years many mistakes have been made, studied, corrected, and eliminated in the critical facility world. When making your list, don’t forget your “rain fly,” even if the weatherman says you won’t need it.

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• Brant Bernet: Willie Nelson and Your Data Center

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  I have never really been much of a cat person. So when American Airlines denied boarding rights to Willie Nelson Bernet due to excessive under-cabin heat, I knew that I was in for some unexpected—I should say unwanted—feline bonding. As my wife and our two daughters boarded the plane, I could hear one of them whisper, “Does Dad even know what Willie eats?”

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• Brant Bernet: The Aging Data Center

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  When I was a kid, I was always tinkering with something. I wasn’t particularly adept at it, but tinker away I did. On one ridiculously hot summer day, I decided that I would replace the faded and cracked dashboard on my maroon-colored, Chevy Monte Carlo (“Monty”), and off to the junkyard I went. The only one I could find was black—not maroon—but in perfect condition.

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