Roundtable Discussion - Cloud Delivery Strategies for Digital Services

You can register for a webinar on Nov 16 10-11a PT, Cloud Delivery Strategies for Digital Services - games, video, audio, and ads.

 

 

Cloud Delivery Strategies for Media Services

 

Providers of media applications and web services often launch via public cloud, only to discover they want more control as their products scale. This analyst roundtable will discuss the pros and cons and how-tos of using public, private and hybrid cloud solutions for media delivery. It examines the tradeoffs among performance, cost, scalability and control in cloud-based strategies for delivering content to customers on a global scale.

What You Will Learn:

  • How to view data centers as “information factories”
  • Determining which media services work best on what type of cloud
  • Managing traffic aggregation and CDN distribution
  • Controlling bandwidth costs while delivering scalable performance
  • Managing and migrating across public, private and hybrid clouds

Who Should Attend

  • CIOs, CTOs at media and content companies
  • Cloud platform executives and managers
  • Media company asset managers and business planners
  • Content distribution network executives

I am interested in this topic and have join the panel.

Moderator







Research Director, GigaOM Pro






Panelists









Infrastructure Curator, GigaOM Network









GigaOM Pro Analyst, Founder Greenm3.com









GM Content & Digital Media, Equinix

 

 

King of Human Error influences Checklist Manifesto

Vanity Fair has an article by Michael Lewis on Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow book.

LETTER FROM BERKELEY
December 2011

The King of Human Error

Billy Beane’s sports-management revolution, chronicled by the author inMoneyball, was made possible by Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. At 77, with his own new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel Prize-winning Kahneman reveals the built-in kinks in human reasoning—and he’s Exhibit A.

Related: “The Quiz Daniel Kahneman Wants You to Fail.”

Michael Lewis Patrick Ecclesine
THINKING MAN Daniel Kahneman outside his Berkeley, California, home. “He [is] more alert and alive than most 20-year-olds,” writes Lewis.

We’re obviously all at the mercy of forces we only dimly perceive and events over which we have no control, but it’s still unsettling to discover that there are people out there—human beings of whose existence you are totally oblivious—who have effectively toyed with your life.

One of the data center executives turned me on to the Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, and guess what.  Atul was influenced by the same King of Human Error.

When you wander into the work of Kahneman and Tversky far enough, you come to find their fingerprints in places you never imagined even existed. It’s alive in the work of the psychologist Philip Tetlock, who famously studied the predictions of putative political experts and found they were less accurate than predictions made by simple algorithms. It’s present in the writing of Atul Gawande (Better, The Checklist Manifesto), who has shown the dangers of doctors who place too much faith in their intuition.

One of the patterns that is interesting to investigate is where the judgement errors are made in the data center.

Why is this important for a green data center?  Because there are judgement errors all over the place.

Blogging on a MacBook Air OSX Lion vs. Lenovo WIndows 7, part 1

About 3 months ago I bought a MacBook Air and posted on my transition.  Disclosure: I am biased.  I worked on the MacOs at Apple from 1985 - 1992, and Windows OS at Microsoft from 1992 - 2001.  In 2001, Windows XP was my last client OS, and I switched to work on servers and enterprise management from 2001 - 2006, and refused to use Windows Vista Beta. :-)

So, am i religious on the Mac vs. Windows?  i understand and appreciate the different perspectives

Think Different switch back to the Mac from Windows

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2011 AT 11:43AM

I worked at Apple from 1985 to 1992.  The Mac was introduced in 1985 and 1991 Apple shipped System 7. I spent much of time working on Mac OS 6.0.x and System 7 was years of being immersed in Mac development.  When I moved to Microsoft to work on Win3.1 my coworkers and I spent much of time using Macs as we were working TrueType and the vast majority of tools where on the Mac.

Even though many of my friends used Macs I didn't take the time to switch.  But, yesterday I switched to a 3rd generation MacBook Air and the Lion OS.

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Back when I made the switch I was loyal to Windows Live Writer as my blogging tool.

I have written a few blog entries with MarsEdit.  Downloaded photos from my Canon 7D.  Installed Office, Aperture, Lightroom as well.

I was much faster writing with Windows Live Writer, but it's only my  second day switching back to the Mac after almost 19 years.

I have Parallels installed on the MacBook Air with Windows 7 and Windows Live Writer, and guess what I have not fired up Windows 7 with Live Writer for the last month.  Marsedit is not perfect as a blogging tool and there are some features that I like on Windows Live Writer, but they are not worth the time to switch to Windows 7.

I'll write another post on the specifics of using Marsedit vs. Live Writer.

It took me about a 6 weeks to get really comfortable with the MacBook Air and OSX Lion, but keep in mind again I worked at Apple so I was a loyal religious Mac User before.

One thing I am quite pleased with on the MacBook Air is the 256GB SSD integration.

 

Looking for the more useful Data Center vendor, Find the Challenger

You can't go to any data center event without running into the vendors and the sales people.  The easy thing for me is they don't bother me as I tell them I don't buy things. On the other hand, the people I hang out with buy lots of things and we get frequent laughs watching the sales people maneuver.  We rarely seek out a vendor as almost all are just looking to build relationships with the people they see, saying what they do and exchanging business cards.

One of the funny things we discussed at the Facebook Open Compute Summit is how it would be great if we get could have penalty flags for inappropriate vendor behavior.

So, what would be a vendor that people would want to talk to.  Consider this Book and new sales research.

Presenting The Challenger Sale

New book from Corporate Executive Board uses research to confront traditional sales wisdom.

In a world of hesitant, risk-averse, empowered customers, what sales approach consistently wins?

To find out, Corporate Executive Board surveyed over 6,000 sales reps across geographies and industries. The research revealed that sales reps fall into one of five profiles:

  1. The Hard Worker
  2. The Problem Solver
  3. The Challenger
  4. The Relationship Builder
  5. The Lone Wolf

And the winner is?  The challenger, not the relationship builder.

Each profile can turn in average performance, but only one consistently outperforms – the Challenger.

In The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson show how this critical finding has turned conventional wisdom on its head. While most companies focus on building customer relationships, the best focus on pushing customers’ thinking, introducing new solutions to their problems and illuminating problems customers overlook. That is, they challenge their customers.

The Challenger Sale is a must-read book for any business leader, sales manager or rep. It explains why Challengers win and, more importantly, how companies can build the Challengers they need to drive customer loyalty and higher growth.

Think about.  How many data center sales people know how to be a challenger?

Open Compute Project Subscribe Link Lists of Technical Workshops - Virtual IO, DC Design, Openrack, Storage, and HW Mgmt

For those of you Open Compute Project fans that Facebook has hosted in Palo Alto and NYC. The following are the subscriber lists you can get updates on the latest discussions.

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Hacking Conventional Computing Infrastructure

We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers from the ground up – and then share these technologies as they evolve.

 

  • VIRTUAL IO http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-virtualio
  • DATACENTER DESIGN http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-datacenterdesign
  • OPENRACK http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-openrack
  • STORAGE http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-storage
  • HARDWARE MNGT http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-hardwaremngt
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