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Took a look at the last month, Dec 13 – Jan 12, 2011 traffic to my Top 5 Data Center Construction companies post.
Roughly 400 hits through Google search.
Two companies popped up with relatively high traffic. Morgan Stanley and Kaiser Permanente.
Good chance someone in these companies is looking for data center construction and design.
Today a group of people are getting together to raise money in memory of Olivier Sanche for his daughter Emilie's college fund.
The Memorial Fun that has been set up at Wells Fargo Bank under the Olivier Sanche Memorial Fund, account #3165058052. The fund is open until January 23rd, the week following the fund proceeds will be presented to Olivier's family towards Emilie's future education.
Olivier and I spent a lot of time together and one of the ways you could describe our relationship is we were wingman for each other.
"The wingman is absolutely indispensable. I look after the wingman. The wingman looks after me. It's another set of eyes protecting you. That's the defensive part.
"Offensively, it gives you a lot more firepower. We work together. We fight together. The wingman knows what his responsibilities are and knows what mine are. Wars are not won by individuals. They're won by teams."
Today, the strategy of having a good wingman is still relevant, but its application reaches far beyond the arena of aerial assault. When fighter pilots lift off into the great expanses of the sky, they may not know what threats lie beyond the horizon. Similarly, with each new day, we have no idea what lies ahead.
The common denominator is that daily challenges are conquered by responsible choices, and creating a culture of responsible choices is reinforced by the presence of a good wingman. In the spirit of the Gabreski quote, "personal battles are not won by individuals; they are won by the reinforcement of good wingmen."
We had each others back and watched out for each other in the data center industry. Olivier was a wingman I could count on that had integrity that was never questioned. It is a complex task to green the data center. Much more than simply getting LEED points.
The challenge, like a thousand-piece puzzle, is that it can sometimes be more difficult than it first appears. The path of least resistance shouts for us to do nothing while a fellow Airman makes a life or career-threatening decision; however, accepting the challenge of being a comrade in arms is a daily whisper for us to courageously be involved. The moral courage to do the right thing is more than just ornamented words; it is the foundation of our Air Force Core Values: Integrity First.
I miss Oliver as a wingman, but any person who uses the concept of a wingman wants more than one wingman/wingwoman.
Who has your back?
A question I got from a friend is how big are Russian Data Centers? As Facebook pointed out Facebook traffic is almost non-existent given they are not an approved site for the country. Huh?
Here is post on Facebook’s traffic.
Paul Butler on Monday, December 13, 2010 at 5:16pm
Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle.
When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that piqued my curiosity was the locality of friendship. I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends. I wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of friendships between them.
Note how dark Russia and China are.
What are the Russia web sites if Facebook and others are not allowed?
•Yandex=Google Search
•VKontakte=Facebook
•Odnoklassniki=Classmates
•LiveJournal=blogging platform
•RuTube=YouTube
The biggest data center so far in Russia is claimed to be a 8MW data center as reported by Data Center Dynamics, Yevgeniy Sverdlik.
MegaFon launches new data center in Russia
Telecom says the 8MW data center is the largest of its kind in Russia, offering colocaiton, managed hosting and Internet services out of six 4,300-sq-ft data halls
Published 12th October, 2010 by Yevgeniy Sverdlik
Russian telecommunications company MegaFon has launched what it says is the largest data center of its caliber in the nation. The 8MW facility in Samara is the first facility of the future “national data center network,” according to a MegaFon news release.
Valeriy Ermakov, chief operations officer at MegaFon, said this was the first time a new state-of-the-art data center of this size was built in Russia for commercial use.
Another Yevgyeniy reports on is a Telecom data center.
Rostelecom embarks on $219m data center build-out in Russia
Telecom will build two new data centers and retrofit existing facilities
Published 24th May, 2010 by DatacenterDynamics
Large Russian telecommunications firm Rostelecom is planning to invest $219m into building new data centers and retrofitting its existing facilities into data centers to begin providing data center services in the country, reported Russian news serviceKommersant. The plan is to make the investment over the next four years.
The company is going to build two new data centers in Moscow and Saint Petersburg metropolitan areas. The Moscow facility is designed to accommodate 3,500 IT racks and the St. Petersburg one will support 500. Rostelecom’s existing facilities can support 399 racks.
Megafon and Rostelcom look like the biggest data center builders, but given 8 MW is the largest so far, we’ll see when Russian breaks the 10 MW mark.
BTW, it does like Dell DCS is a supplier to Yandex.
Brannon boasts that while Google famously makes its own servers, Dell caters to three others from the ‘Search engine top five', hinting that Facebook is also a DCS customer.
But, sensing a great business opportunity in hand-me-downs and cheap knock-offs, Dell cunningly decided it would sell on its custom-made designs to smaller outfits, like Russian search engine and portal Yandex, for less cash.
I wrote last week on What could Google do with 111 Eighth Ave building? A new bargaining chip
Another idea that just popped into my head is Google could turn 111 Eight Ave building into a change agent for the carrier hotels, Internet Exchanges, Peering, and who knows what else they want to drive in the industry.
The current model of carrier hotels are run by private enterprises or a non-profit like AMS-IX.
Vision
AMS-IX: the trusted value creator in quality IP interconnection [1]
Mission
1. To realize the principal, neutral IP interconnection marketplace worldwide
2. To offer world-class quality performance and operate a future proof platform to secure the growth of IP traffic between connected parties
3. Support initiatives for the good of the Internet to ultimately improve end-user experience
Values
- Neutral
- Trusted
- Pragmatic
- Open
- Innovative
Equinix is an example of private Internet Exchange site.
When our founders started Equinix, they envisioned a place where the information-driven world could grow and thrive.
As the company looks forward, we remain dedicated to the advancement of the information-driven world. This means that we will:
- protect and connect our customers’ most valuable information assets;
- constantly strive to evolve and share our industry insights with our customers;
- continue to make necessary investments to expand and scale to our customer's needs;
- act upon industry trends that will affect our business and the businesses of our customers;
- cultivate a rich interconnected ecosystem of the top networks, carriers, ISPs, and business partners in the world.
What happens when Google takes their money, knowledge, and strategic vision and demonstrate to the rest of the industry the way they want carrier hotels to operate?
Don’t just think of Internet technology, think of different business models as well. Many ideas have failed because of the business model, not the technology.
Google has 24 Public Peering Exchange Points in Equinix facilities. The largest amount dedicated to any one company. Don’t you think 111 Eighth Ave changes the conversations between Equinix and Google?
Google has sponsored projects like Google Fiber for Communities.
Google Fiber for Communities: Next steps
The deadline for responses to our request for information has passed. We will announce our target community or communities by the end of the year. In the meantime please visit fiberforcommunities.com to learn how to take action to improve broadband where you live.
Since we announced our plans to build experimental, ultra high-speed broadband networks, the response has been tremendous. Hundreds of communities and hundreds of thousands of individuals across the country have expressed their interest in the project. We're not going to be able to build in every interested community - our plan is to reach a total of at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people - but we hope to learn lessons from this experiment that will help improve Internet access everywhere.
We humbly thank each and every community and individual for taking the time to participate. If one message has come through loud and clear, it's this: people across the country are hungry for better and faster Internet access.
This map displays where the responses were concentrated. Each small dot represents a government response, and each large dot represents locations where more than 1,000 residents submitted a nomination. A list of government responses is available here.
Seems natural Google would want to change the Internet Exchanges as well.
The NYTimes has an article on JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley receiving approval for joint venture securities firms in China.
JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley Win Approval to Expand in China
By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: January 7, 2011
SHANGHAI — JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley said Friday that they had each won approval from Chinese regulators to form their own joint venture securities firms here, a move that will give each greater access to the fast-growing domestic capital market in China.
The two firms are the latest global banks to win the right to form joint ventures to underwrite stock and bond offerings in China. Eventually, the joint ventures will be able to sell and trade stocks to Chinese citizens and institutions.
JPMorgan Chase said it would partner with First Capital Securities and hold a 33 percent stake in the new firm that will be established. Morgan Stanley said it would hold a 33 percent stake in a joint venture it was forming with Huaxin Securities, which is also known as China Fortune Securities.
These companies follow the lead of others.
For now, Wall Street banks are content to form joint ventures in China. In 2004,Goldman Sachs won approval to form a joint venture securities firm in China that became Gaohua Securities. UBS, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have each formed a Chinese joint venture with a local securities firm in recent years. All the firms hold minority stakes.
So, where would JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley put its data centers?
Somewhere where the Chinese regulators approve of like Winland International Finance Center or equivalent.
Winland International Finance Center
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Winland International Finance Center is located at the core of Financial Street. Towards the south, there is the Capital International Finance Center, 5-star Intercontinental Hotel and China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation. Towards north, there is the Bank of China, the People's Insurance Company (Group) of China and China Insurance Regulatory Commission. Towards the west and along the 2ND ring road lies the Fuchengmen subway station which is conveniently a walking distance away. Taking inspiration from the design of the ancient Chinese coin - a square within a circle this abstract symbol is a key element in the construction of the building. The front of the building has an eco-space of thousands of square meters which is made up of greenery, fountains and sculptures, allowing much grandeur. Facing the 2ND ring road on financial street, this green pasture is one of a kind.
Given all these foreign companies own less than 50% of the joint ventures, don’t expect a data center to be built by these financials.
