Urs Holzle, Senior VP for Technical Infrastructure, Google:

If there is one person out there responsible for building one of the most supportive datacenter for a company, then it’s Urs Holzle. One of Google’s first 10 employees, Holzle designed and build Google’s overall supportive infrastructure and also established a pattern for Amazon, Microsoft, GoGrid and others to follow.

 Holzle was one of the first to realize the truth that servers aren’t designed for the cloud data center. Later on, Holzle and his team sat down and thought on Google building their own data centers. Today, Google’s data centers are said to use about half the power of a conventional enterprise data center.

Holzle is a former associate professor of computer science at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He received a PhD from Stanford in the efficient use of programming languages. He is also the co-sponsor, with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. With Google architect, Luiz Andre Barroso, Holzle authored some very innovative white papers such as "The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines” and "The Case For Energy Proportional Computing.”

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