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    Wednesday
    Jun082011

    Amazon’s Data Center Container "Perdix" something we haven’t seen

    Yesterday I went to Amazon’s Technology Open House.

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    Here is a 1/4 of the crowd getting food and drinks early before James Hamilton’s keynote.

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    In James’s presentation he has a section on Modular & Advanced Building Designs

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    Every day, Amazon Web Services adds enough new capacity to support all of Amazon.com’s global infrastructure through the company’s first 5 years, when it was $2.7 billion annual revenue.

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    James presents his latest observations on data center costs.

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    And waste in mechanical systems.

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    But, here is something I didn’t expect.  Amazon Perdix.  Amazon’s version of modular pre-fab data container data center.  The below picture has Microsoft’s design on the left and Amazon’s on the right.

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    James is a believer in low density, 30 servers per rack where the cost per server is $1,450 or less.

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    Many companies started building very large facilities, called Internet data centers. It provide businesses with a range of solutions for systems deployment and operation.
    November 18, 2011 | Unregistered Commenterschool architects

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