Ep. 257 - José Luis Friebel: Data Centers Love Plumbers

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And what was that like?

Uh, I mean, it's, it's been from, from the very first day when I started to do the first event in Spain.

There was no, an industry getting together in Spain-

Mm

... or Mexico and, and all the locations 20 years ago.

Um, you know, I think one of the, the, and this is why I'm passionate about the company I'm working for, because the, our mission is really connecting people, connecting brand, and connecting ideas.

So not, not just doing events or, or media.

Right.

And, you know, putting together all of this and started to speak with everyone, um, in the industry and bring them together, even years after, like 10, 15 years after, even today, you realize that some people from the energy or from the, um, you know, the, the investment center infrastructure and the IT, or even in, in, in, in that segment, they don't know each other.

And sometime with just two people saying, "Well, you've been both like 15 year on this industry and you know each other? I can't believe that.

You know, you, it's, it's not possible.

You know, I know you separate for 15 year, and I didn't know you know you, you didn't meet each other."

Right.

So I think we, we still working on that connection, and, and I think that's the only way to, to, uh, get, uh, the industry forward, so to get ideas together and to share, uh, knowledge and best practice and, and use cases, because it sometimes look like this industry doesn't move-

Yeah

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but there is a lot of new things happening all the time.

And from 2020, uh, 2019, 2020 with AI and everything to now, everything is, is, is growing and changing really rapidly, so.

Yeah.

There was a phenomenon back in 2012, 2013 where when the cloud was really becoming a production grade cloud, and you had people that were experts in compute, you had people that were experts in networking, and you had people that were experts in storage, but the cloud, what made it lumpy, where it didn't work, was they didn't, even if they were in the same company, Jose-

Yeah

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they didn't talk to each other.

I'm with my engineers.