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It's getting close to the Holidays, and I'll be taking a break from blogging until the new year. Even this week has been busy with my daughters annual Xmas cookie decorating party that my wife is turned into a well run production. Here are some pictures. Why use Instagram to share when I can share them here. :-)
Have a Happy Holidays
-Dave Ohara
On Dec 19, 2012 10a will be a webinar discussing the ARM chip in the data center. The webinar is here.
Power matters: using ARM to reduce data center costsA consumer using a computer to shop, email, search, or any of the other myriad tasks now possible, usually measures power consumption by the dollar figure on the monthly electrical bill. But as two recent, highly controversial articles in the New York Times reiterated, U.S. data centers backing up those tasks consume as much as two percent of the nation’s power consumption. Long before the articles appeared, data centers were aware of the problem and had begun employing various strategies to lower cooling costs, eliminate redundancies, and improve power usage effectiveness (PUE).
Another solution is deploying ultra-low power servers that reduce data center power needs – in a sense, reinventing the server. How does the efficiency of this solution stack up against the alternatives? What are some specific use cases? And, what’s the future for ARM-based server solutions? For answers to these and many other questions, join GigaOM Pro and our sponsor Calxeda for “Power matters: using ARM to reduce data center costs,” a free analyst roundtable webinar on Wednesday, December 19, 2012, at 10 a.m. PT.
I'll be on the webinar and Barry Evans from Calxeda.
Our panel of experts includes:
- Adam Lesser, Cleantech curator at GigaOM
- Dave Ohara, GigaOM Pro analyst and founder, GreenM3
- Simon Anderson, CEO, DreamHost
- Barry Evans, CEO, Calxeda
After catching up with many at 7x24 Exchange, a common conversation is where will you be next.
Will I be at Gartner Data Center in LV? No
Why No? I have gone to Gartner two times and met great people while hanging in the hallways. But, I really don't learn much sitting in the presentations other than what is the current Gartner position which would be useful if my business model was to be Gartner follower. If your users are subscribers to Gartner then the conference will make sense. I have known only one person who used Gartner data center services, so the overlap is very small.
Will I bet at Uptime Symposium in Santa Clara? No
Why No? I have gone to 4 Uptime Symposium, but I am not allowed to attend as Media as I don't work full-time as a media person. Which is actually fine, because I wasn't really learning much any more, and most of my friends have made the shift to attend 7x24 Exchange conferences. I will be in the bay area the week of May 13, 2013 as people will want to meet and have a social gathering, but i don't need to attend Uptime anymore.
Will I be at Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara? Yes
Why? Will as one of the analyst from the above organizations observed. "OCP group you could make a lot of money. You learn way more at this summit than our conference." Oh yeh, OCP is free has more of the tech leaders, Web 2.0, and high volume users.
Will i be at DatacenterDynamics? Yes The specific ones other that Seattle are not set.
To meet a combination of the users and vendors I'll be back at 7x24 Exchange Spring.
2013 Spring CONFERENCE
June 2-5, 2013
Boca Raton Resort & Club
Boca Raton, FL
"Driving Performance"
This is my travel schedule so far which will most likely have many changes.
The 7x24 Exchange staff goes through a lot of effort to find a locate for their conferences. I've had the pleasure of attending the last 4 conferences in Phoenix and Florida. The first two I flew out within hours of the last session, but the last two I stuck around a bit longer. In Florida I got a chance to relax with some other attendees and have pleasant conversations.
Yesterday the conference ended and I had 6 hours to enjoy the pool. Four conference attendees are enjoying the sun in this picture. I won't point them out, but we are all Pacific Northwest residents so getting a few hours of sun in 80 degrees before we go to the clouds and cold was well worth it.
What was the best part is I got a chance to catch up with 7x24 staff and enjoy a lunch conversation with the white noise from the waterfall.
As much as I enjoyed the 7x24 conference, some of the best discussions were by the pool after the conference.
For something different I posted the Google's Seven years of data center history on GigaOm. Why? Because I thought it was a good story to tell and the reach would be much broader on GigaOm vs. this blog. The GigaOm post went up yesterday afternoon and the post made it to the home page.
The GigaOm post is here.
Google opens up on seven years of its data center history
- BY Dave Ohara, GigaOM Pro
- 4 Comments
Google opened up on its data center operations today at an industry event in Phoenix. It shared how its thinking and practices have changed as it seeks to lower the costs and environment impact of its servers and IT infrastructure.
photo: Google
Google’s head of data center operations provided a seven-year look at how the search giant’s data center strategy has evolved during the 7×24 Exchange conference on Tuesday in Phoenix, Ariz.,providing a new look at the secretive search giant’s operations. From the company that pioneered the idea that the data center is no longer a place to keep servers, but rather a computer in and of itself, this evolution is eye-opening.
I got a nice bump in traffic. Here is what I have so far as of 9a PT. Note: the traffic for today should be much higher as the day progresses as only 9 of 24 hrs are shown.
The social traffic looks good with 452 tweets.
CNET picked up on the GigaOm post and created their own.
In an extension of its data-center glasnost, Google is offering an in-depth profile of its evolving strategy in center management.
During the 7×24 Exchange conference today in Phoenix, Joe Kava, the VP of data centers for Google, delivered a presentation giving an intimate look at how the company's data-center strategy has evolved, according to a GigOm report. Kava began his presentation with a seven-year timeline of Google's data-center history that showed the progression of the search giant's strategy.
DatacenterKnowledge threw up an entertaining post on the alligator in the storm pond.
Alligator Patrols Google’s Data Center
November 13th, 2012