Test of SEO for GreenM3 on a search for "dell c6145"

Dell announced the Dell C6145 server on Feb 14 and I didn't get around to posting until Feb 15.  The normal rule is the first to post has a higher chance of a high ranking in Google Search.  I was getting some hits on my post yesterday and decided to do a Google search for "dell c6145".

Making sure I was not logged in the Google Search page.  (When you are logged in the search results will be personalized.)  Here are the search results.  My post is #5 after 4 Dell sites.

The next 5 are as follows.

My theory of why my post gets higher results than others is I try to pull together a variety of sources, not just one, at least two, and in this case four.  Two are videos, two are sites with original content.

Most in the media wouldn't point to four links driving content off their site.  But, as I joke I have media status, but that doesn't mean I behave like media.

Oh yeh, and the number of people who read this blog supply the traffic.  Thanks for reading the Green Data Center blog.

Policy Makers have bad aim, not focusing on the real problem

I am at The Green Grid Technical forum event, and I had the pleasure of chatting with the keynote speaker Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.  His company is Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.  Robert's keynote  is titled.

Policy Makers are Focused on You, Not the Real Problem

Regulators around the world are taking aim at IT in general, and data centers in particular, in their efforts to regulate reduced energy use and carbon emissions. But at the end of the day, we need more IT and innovation, not less. Rob Atkinson will discuss why policy makers should be concentrating on spurring digital transformation – incentivizing conversion of energy intensive atoms to energy savings bits. And why spurring fundamental clean energy R&D, rather than regulating IT efficiency, is the surer path to the needed low carbon global economy.

Robert is pro ICT

Points out of the irony of travelling to the conference on a plane and how video conference.

Teleworking is the fastest growing travel segment with the a positive environmental impact.

And a case for ecommerce for eBay and Amazon.

So what we should be doing given ICT has a reduction in energy overall.  What is needed is 84% less carbon energy.  And Robert says the focus on energy efficiency is a short term focus.  We need low carbon energy.

Which reminds me what I renamed the Green Data Center Blog to Green (low carbon) Data Center Blog.  When I hear guys like Robert talk I can easily see 5 years more of writing on the Green (low carbon) Data Center topic.

What are the low carbon technologies?

What should be done?  A clean energy strategy is Robert's closing recommendation.

AWS arrives in Tokyo with 1-10ms latency in local area

Amazon Web Services blog announced the arrival of AWS to Tokyo.

Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo

I have made many visits to Japan over the last several years to speak at conferences and to meet with developers. I really enjoy the people, the strong sense of community, and the cuisine.

Over the years I have learned that there's really no substitute for sitting down, face to face, with customers and potential customers. You can learn things in a single meeting that might not be obvious after a dozen emails. You can also get a sense for the environment in which they (and their users or customers) have to operate. For example, developers in Japan have told me that latency and in-country data storage are of great importance to them.

Here is a cool logo for the Japan AWS users group.

Put it all together and developers in Japan can now build applications that respond very quickly and that store data within the country.

The JAWS-UG (Japan AWS User Group) is another important resource. The group is headquartered in Tokyo, with regional branches in Osaka and other cities. I have spoken at JAWS meetings in Tokyo and Osaka and they are always a lot of fun. I start the meeting with an AWS update. The rest of the meeting is devoted to short "lightning" talks related to AWS or to a product built with AWS. For example, the developer of the Cacoo drawing application spoke at the initial JAWS event in Osaka in late February. Cacoo runs on AWS and features real-time collaborative drawing.

Amazon's Jeff Barr says he can't share the exact location.

Although I can't share the exact location of the Region with you, I can tell you that private beta testers have been putting it to the test and have reported single digit latency (e.g. 1-10 ms) from locations in and around Tokyo. They were very pleased with the observed latency and performance.

But Amazon's peering point is in Equnix Tokyo.

With Equinix listed facilities as

I think GreenM3 escaped being labeled a Content Farm

After blogging about the web site getting labeled by Google as a content farm I was wondering how the Green Data Center Blog (GreenM3) would be affected.

I was a bit concerned because I reference a lot of other people's content and take a few parts then comment. Always referencing the original source and to not take too much from the other site.

Why do I think I escaped?

Here is my traffic for last 3 weeks.

Here is traffic from search engines.

Compare this to what happened to the guy who got labeled as a content farm.

And, in the last 24 hours here are robot hits to my site.

One thing that SquareSpace has helped me a lot vs. TypePad is I am getting way more robot hits.

Knock on wood, I think the Green Data Center blog escaped being labeled as a content farm.  Also, what may have saved me is the others sites that do copy my work and don't credit me.  One site stopped copying me a month ago when I sent a cease and desist letter for copyright infringement.

Do you think of what you put in your e-mail before you send? You should

Here is a lesson for many.  One benefit I have of spending so many years working at Microsoft is be very careful what you put in e-mail.  (note I left Mircosoft in 2006)  Assume anything you put in writing could be read by the DOJ.  If you want to have a private conversations don't use e-mail.  Read the following to understand the risks of thinking e-mail is private.

Wikileaks is making news disclosing for the public what people assumed were private conversations.

WikiLeaks

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WikiLeaks is not affiliated with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.

Julian Assange, the main spokesperson and editor-in-chief for WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymousnews sources and news leaks.

Wikileaks is so popular it now has imitators.  Red Tape discusses an example.

Do WikiLeaks imitators put your e-mail at risk?

Posted: Tuesday, March 1 2011 at 06:00 am CT by Bob Sullivan

Imagine having every e-mail you've written published by hackers for the entire world to see. You don't have to stretch your imagination very far -- it's already happening to some folks.

Here an example of what has caused a huge embarrassment for security company.

Hackers who call themselves Anonymous -- the group that has gained notoriety for attacking Visa and MasterCard in defense of WikiLeaks -- broke into computers operated by a government contractor named HBGary Federal in early February.  Once inside, Anonymous members wreaked all kinds of electronic havoc, including the theft of thousands of employee e-mails. These were then published in searchable form on a Web site similar to WikLeaks, leading to a host of embarrassing disclosures for HBGary employees.  The incident drew so much attention that it was featured in a recent segment on “The Colbert Report.”

Which was so embarrassing the CEO just resigned.

Aaaron Barr, HBGary Federal CEO, resigns

The CEO of HBGary Federal, Aaron Barr, has stated that he is resigning his position. In a telephone interview with Threatpost, Barr said that “I need to focus on taking care of my family and rebuilding my reputation ... It's been a challenge to do that and run a company. And, given that I've been the focus of much of bad press, I hope that, by leaving, HBGary and HBGary Federal can get away from some of that. I'm confident they'll be able to weather this storm."

Here is a detailed post on Anonymous's method to break into HBGary.

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack

By Peter Bright | Last updated 13 days ago

It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot. HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr thought he had unmasked the hacker hordes of Anonymous and was preparing to name and shame those responsible for co-ordinating the group's actions, including the denial-of-service attacks that hit MasterCard, Visa, and other perceived enemies of WikiLeaks late last year.

When Barr told one of those he believed to be an Anonymous ringleader about his forthcoming exposé, the Anonymous response was swift and humiliating. HBGary's servers were broken into, its e-mails pillaged and published to the world, its data destroyed, and its website defaced. As an added bonus, a second site owned and operated by Greg Hoglund, owner of HBGary, was taken offline and the user registration database published.

Over the last week, I've talked to some of those who participated in the HBGary hack to learn in detail how they penetrated HBGary's defenses and gave the company such a stunning black eye—and what the HBGary example means for the rest of us mere mortals who use the Internet.

Hope you think about your e-mail conversations in a different way.  All my business friends know anything really private we don't put in e-mail.