Akamai’s Real Time Web Monitor–Attacks, Traffic and Latency

February 16, 2011 Dave Ohara

Akamai has a cool Real-time Web Monitor web page.

Akamai monitors global Internet conditions around the clock. With this real-time data we identify the global regions with the greatest attack traffic, cities with the slowest Web connections (latency), and geographic areas with the most Web traffic (traffic density).

Dell C6145 Server, high performance with less watts

February 15, 2011 Dave Ohara

Dell’s John Stuewe discusses the C6145 Server where he makes the point the goal is to get most of amount of cores and memory in a server rack unit.

Stop the IT Fighting to Green the Data Center

February 15, 2011 Dave Ohara

Greening the data center will typically be a path of energy efficiency. A lower PUE. A higher performance per watt for servers. But, I don’t think I have ever heard someone say I greened our data center by reducing the fighting in our IT organization and data center groups. Think about it.

Yahoo applies to add 10 more diesel generators in Quincy, WA

February 15, 2011 Dave Ohara

Yahoo has applied for a permit to add 10 more diesel generators to its current 13 diesel generators.

Public invited to comment on draft permit for Yahoo! Data Center expansion

HP Critical Facilities Implementation, aka Design-Build

February 15, 2011 Dave Ohara

I blogged about the press release on HP’s new data center design services, but at the time of posting the web site was not live. Below is the site and PDF brochure.