Steve Jobs CEO Resignation Letter

Steve Jobs resigned today.  And, being a great designer, made his statement in few words that are …

August 24, 2011

Letter from Steve Jobs

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Steve

Google vs. Microsoft Data Center Videos

Google surprised many with its youtube video released on Apr 13, 2011 on Google Data Center security which has 514,374 views.

I wonder Microsoft’s GFIS data center  video on July 24, 2011 with 49,053 views was created in response to Google’s?

Who will be next?  Amazon…Amazon…Is Amazon data center on YouTube?

Currently 70% of Dell’s Enterprise Hardware is ready for running @ 113 F

I had the pleasure of chatting with a group of Dell and Intel employees on Dell’s leadership move to support “chiller-less” data centers with Fresh Air Cooling.  The people I spoke to were.

· Rich Percaccio – Enterprise Marketing Manager, Dell Global Commercial Channel

· Eric Wilcox – Power and Cooling Portfolio Manager, Dell Product Marketing

· Dave Moss – Engineering Strategist, Dell Data Center Cooling Infrastructure

· Jay Kyathsandra – Marketing Manager, Intel Datacenter and Connected Systems Group

After listening a bit to the discussion what came to mind is the problem of storage or network gear that can support these conditions.

To meet the needs of a broader range of companies interested in employing more efficient and economical facility designs, Dell has validated a portfolio of servers, storage, networking, and power infrastructure that deliver short-term, excursion-based operation with limited impact on performance across a larger environmental window. In line with the new, more stringent ASHRAE A3 and A4 classifications, Dell systems have been developed for sustained operation at temperature ranges from minus 23 F (5 C) to 113 F (45 C) and allowable humidity from 5 percent to 90 percent. This level of design robustness has been validated by recent tests indicating that the products can tolerate up to 900 hours of 104 F (40 C) operation per year and up to 90 hours at 113 F (45 C)

So I asked what % of Dell’s product line can currently run at 113 F?  The answer 70%.  Which is a good number, and we can expect that within 6 months it will rise another 5 – 10%.  But, what about the rest of the industry?

What I admire Dell for is they took a risk to be in a leadership position.  And, now the rest of the IT hardware vendors are in a defensive position.

What is also brilliant is Dell can change the TCO conversation as Fresh Air Technology can save a company money.

This can result in more than $100K of operational savings per megawatt (MW) of IT and eliminate capital expenditures of approximately $3M per MW of IT[2]. In addition, IT systems that can tolerate higher temperatures can reduce the risk of IT failures during facility cooling outages

Less Code, Less Energy, Less Money, a path to managing IT for a Greener Data Center: ManageEngine

I had a chance to chat with Raj Sabhlok, President of Zoho Corp regarding the ManageEngine product.

Part of Zoho Corp’s intellectual property is WebNMS and is the founding company of Zoho in 1996.

What became clear as to why Zoho can do 90% of the features with 10% of the price is the company takes a different approach than many other management tools.  A greener approach.  How?  They write less code with as much as possible management monitoring done agentless.  Less agents mean less code to run on the servers which uses less energy.  Which also supports their lower price point.

If you are looking for a management software company that is greener, it is worth considering that you want a solution with as much agentless monitoring.  Raj says they can run 90% of their monitoring agentless.

This approach reminds me of JouleX which is started by a bunch of people who had networking expertise.

Here is a ManageEngine Dashboard for measusring the Desktop use which then corresponds to the amount of time on vs. off.

and here is a screen shot for asset management.

50,000 Page Views in last 30 days

I was watching the traffic on this blog and if I count over the past 30 days, not a calendar month (july, aug, etc) I just hit 50,000 views.

The feedburner metrics are another 13,000 or so views, but for the last 30 days the metrics are skewed based on my post on the org charts of Google, Facebook, Oracle, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft.

Thanks for continuing to visit this blog.

-Dave Ohara