Vice President & Distinguished Engineer, Datacenter Advanced Development, Microsoft
By Christian BeladyAdvisory Board Member, M.S. in Datacenter Systems Engineering, and Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
Christian Belady, Vice President & Distinguished Engineer, Datacenter Advanced Development, Microsoft
“Living in the Pacific Northwest, I have no desire to be anywhere else during the summer. The weather and views are spectacular, and I spend most of my free time during the summer doing various hobbies and spending time with the community of folks who are like minded and family to me. I adore buying, driving, and even assembling supercars. A longtime Porsche collector, I was convinced by my son to get the 2015 Lamborghini Huracan-and now it’s our favorite car to drive together! He and his friends also work on restoration projects with me. Of course, during the other seasons of the year, I spend as much time as possible traveling and vacationing in places that are sunny.”
My Lamborghini Huracan after a drive with my son. Photograph: Tom FathiThe garage of a car fanatic
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christian Belady is a seasoned veteran in managing and developing datacenter infrastructure and has developed one of the largest datacenter footprints in the world. With over 140 US patents (and many more international ones) to his name, he has defined datacenter industry evolution through innovative thinking and quantitative benchmarking, like being an early architect of the Green Grid and the originator of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric. Since being dubbed one of “five people who changed the data center” in 2010, he has won several other industry achievement awards to recognize his outstanding contributions to this field, including being named as iMason’s “2020 Industry Luminary.”
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