DCF Show: Talking Data Centers With Dean Nelson

Dec. 14, 2020
Our guest on the DCF Show is Dean Nelson, founder of Infrastructure Masons and CEO at Virtual Power Systems. Rich and Dean discuss Infrastructure Masons’ mission to ensure that “every click improves the future,” and Dean’s vision for software-defined power.

The Data Center Frontier Show podcast tells the story of the data center industry and its future. Today we feature our conversation with Dean Nelson, the founder of Infrastructure Masons and an industry thought leader who has helped build some of the world’s largest data center networks for Sun Microsystems, eBay and Uber.

DCF Podcast Episode 11: Talking Data Centers with Dean Nelson

In our conversation, Dean and I talk about the essential role the data center industry has played during the COVID-19 pandemic, the progress of Infrastructure Masons to ensure that “every click improves the future,” and Dean’s work as CEO of Virtual Power Systems and its vision for software-defined power.  Here’s our interview.

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About the Author

Rich Miller

I write about the places where the Internet lives, telling the story of data centers and the people who build them. I founded Data Center Knowledge, the data center industry's leading news site. Now I'm exploring the future of cloud computing at Data Center Frontier.

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