New President, David Schirmacher and VP, Cyrus Izzo of 7x24 Exchange

7x24 Exchange has made some management changes with David Schirmacher as President and Cyrus Izzo as Vice President.

David Schirmacher updated his LinkedIn profile with his new position as President of 7x24 Exchange.  Congratulations David.

David Schirmacher

1st Account HolderDavid Schirmacher

Senior Vice President at Digital Realty

Greater New York City Area
Real Estate
Current
Past

I think David is a bit more excited than Cyrus.  Cyrus's LinkedIn hasn't been updated yet.  :-)

Cyrus J. Izzo,PE

2ndCyrus J. Izzo,PE

Co-President , Syska Hennessy Group

Greater New York City Area
Real Estate
Current
Past
  • Project Manager/Project Engineer at Ammann & Whitney Consulting Engineers, Inc.

Here is the complete board of 7x24 Exchange.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chairman of the Board
Robert J. Cassiliano
Business Information Services
732-410-5022
bob@7x24exchange.org		 President
David Schirmacher
Fieldview Solutions
732-395-6920
davids@7x24exchange.org		 Vice President
Cyrus Izzo
Syska Hennessey Group
212-556-5514
cyrus@7x24exchange.org
Director - Chapter Representative
Michael Siteman
Executive Vice President
Jones Lang LaSalle
michaels@7x24exchange.org		 Director of Marketing, Vendor Representative
Juli Ierulli
Caterpillar
309-675-4096
juli@7x24exchange.org

 

Sun's Modular Container Documents posted on Oracle site, is a document confidential if you post it on a public site?

One of my data center friends and I were chatting about who has the data center container (modular) data center market.  HP, IBM, and Dell are in the conversations as well as a few other guys.  And, then he mentioned how many Sun MD20 boxes he has seen.  Being one of the first to market, Sun had had the ability to meet and create a market.

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Curious I ran a Google Search on Sun modular data center and what showed up is Oracle's posting of the following documents.

Sun Modular Datacenter S20

Sun Modular Datacenter S20 and D20 Documentation

Sun Modular Datacenter S20/D20 Product Notes PDF
Sun Modular Datacenter S20/D20 Overview PDF
Sun Modular Datacenter S20/D20 Site Planning Guide PDF
Sun Modular Datacenter S20 Getting Started Guide PDF
Sun Modular Datacenter S20 Fiber Cable Connector Options Guide PDF
Sun Modular Datacenter S20/D20 Rack Dolly Guide PDF
Sun Modular Datacenter S20 PDU and Power Strip Options Guide PDF
Sun Modular Datacenter S20 Electrical Disconnect Option Guide PDF
Sun Modular Datacenter S20 Fire Suppression Guide PDF
Some of these documents say Sun Confidential.  Like this one.
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But, if Oracle posts a document on a public web site can they hold the reader to confidentiality agreement?
These documents are old, but probably still useful for some people.
Here is the last post on Blackbox.
Sun Modular Datacenter
It's a Datacenter ... in a Box

Tuesday Mar 24, 2009

What a Difference a Year Makes

By Maurice Cloutier on Mar 24, 2009

When we announced Project Blackbox in late 2006, one of the first competitors to jump on the containerized datacenter bandwagon was Rackable Systems. Given their reportedly tight sales relationship with Microsoft and Yahoo!, one would expect that they would parlay this relationship into revenue sales for their containerized solution.

 

Will Zynga's stock performance affect its data center build out? Stock gets close to 8, 20% below IPO

Zynga is close to a stock price of 8 today.

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Zynga has increased its data center capacity with a recent 9 MW in Vantage.

Zynga signed the largest deal of the year for Grubb & Ellis, leasing nine megawatts of capacity, or six PODs, at a data center in Santa Clara, Calif.

Zynga has about 5 MW on east and west coast locations before this addition.

Part of the IPO was to fund data center expansion.

But to cut costs and diversify its risks, Zynga is now investing more money in building its own data centers, according to the company’s initial public offering filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Zynga considers the investment in its own infrastructure to be important enough to warrant an investment of $100 – $150 million in the second half of 2011, according to the filing.

But with the stock opening at 10 and now at 8 in less than a month, you would think there are a lot of people thinking on how to get the stock price up.  And, one way is to cut costs and figure out how to support more on less hardware which then brings down the need for data center space.

Even though Zynga doesn't own its data centers they can't do much about their PUE.  They can still take efforts to be green in their data center space evaluating how efficiently their code is and their hardware systems.

Now that Zynga is IPO they need to manage their costs to match their revenue if they want their stock to go up long term.

 

Obama's Leaner Military equals investments for intelligence-gathering and cyberwarfare, therefore more data centers

NYTimes reports on President Obama's leaner military.  The part that caught my attention is what the future is.

Mr. Obama, who spoke surrounded by a tableau of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in dress uniforms and with chests full of medals, underscored the national security successes of his administration — the ending of the Iraq war, the killing of Osama bin Laden and the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya — before declaring that the United States would downsize to a smaller ground force, get rid of “outdated cold war-era systems” and step up investments in intelligence-gathering and cyberwarfare.

Pentagon officials also chimed in.

Pentagon officials made it clear that the department’s priorities in coming years would be financing for defense and offense in cyberspace, for Special Operations forces and for the broad area of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

Reuters reports in more detail on the Defense technology investment.

Cyberwarfare and unmanned drones would continue to grow in priority, as would countering attempts by China and Iran to block U.S. power projection capabilities in areas like the South China Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.

Here is the Defense Strategic Guidance.

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There may be 1200 data centers being shut down, but the new data centers will be way more fun to work on than the 1200 that were shut down.

27 of 35 IBM's European Data Centers receive Energy Efficiency European Commission Award

IBM has a press release on 27 of its 35 European data centers receiving energy efficiency status.

European Commission Awards IBM for Energy Efficient Data Centers

27 IBM Data Centers in Europe Receive Data Center Energy Efficiency Status

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ARMONK, N.Y. - 05 Jan 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the European Commission (EC), the executive body of the European Union, has awarded 27 IBM Data Centers for energy efficiency, based on the European Union (EU) Code of Conduct for Data Centers. The honor represents the largest portfolio of data centers from a single company to receive the recognition.

The EU Code of Conduct was created in response to increasing energy consumption in data centers. The EU aims to inform and encourage data center operators and owners to reduce energy consumption in a cost-effective manner without decreasing mission critical data center functions. The assessment is made against a set of best practices to reduce energy losses which include the usage of energy efficient hardware, installing free cooling and cold aisle containment. Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is an indicator for how efficiently a computer data center uses its power. In May, the Uptime Institute gave IBM data centers a rating of 1.65 for average power usage compared to the industry average of 1.8.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had a chance to chat with Rich Lechner, IBM VP, Global Technology Services and Cloud in more detail on the press announcement.

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One of the thing IBM has achieved in these same facilities is a doubling of compute and storage capacity in three years without increasing power use.

The energy improvements implemented in these data centers helped IBM meet a goal set in 2007 to double the IT capacity of its data centers within three years without increasing the power consumption.

Rich took some time to explain the range of 27 facilities that have achieved the award and there are more facilities that are planned to be submitted.  IBM also has services to help companies get their own certification for their facilities.

For more details on what IBM did to achieve the energy efficiency improvements check out this PDF.  Here is a graph you'll find interesting.

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One of the tangents we took is discussing IBM's modular/flexible data center designs.  Rich said there are 500 data center sites that use IBM's flexible modular architecture described here.

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