Are privacy rights of cattle compromised with RFID replacing brands?

SJMercury News has an article about how the USDA is requiring cattle transported interstate to have RFID tags.

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The history of branding is long.

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And there of course cattleman protesting the change.

I wonder if the cattle could hire lawyers they can make a claim of their privacy rights being violated now that anyone can read their RFID tags and figure out their history.  Where they born, where they have been, etc.  This is of course silly.

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Wouldn't it be great if everything in the data center had a unique ID?

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

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.