Asia's Largest Data center is claimed by India, 40MW, 3rd largest in World, Green, Energy Efficient

Tulip Telecom India put this YouTube video up about its new data center.  According to IBM this data center was built in 9 months.

 Third Largest Data Center in World with 900,000Sft of Built-up Space
 Design confirming to Tier-3 specifications as per TIA-942 standards
 Utility power from 66 KV substation Feeding 40 MVA power with 100% Back up
 Carrier Neutral facility with multiple ISPs
 Contiguous Isolated Rack Space of 10,000 Sft per Module
 High Energy Efficiency -- PUE ~1.9
 80,000 Sft of Customer Office Space
 Man-out Building Automation System

There are 16 4MW generators.

I'll have more details next week.  Here is the IBM video.

IBM built Tulip Telecom the largest data center in India -- and third largest in the world-- providing a highly reliable and energy efficient data center. IBM's sophisticated engineering skills and capabilities built Tulip Telecom a cloud-ready data center -- that is one of the greenest and energy efficient data centers globally -- in less than nine months.

Facebook's data center press conference in Lulea Sweden

It's old news, but nice to see how the data center press event went for Facebook in Lulea, Sweden.

HBR's #1 tip for the cloud, get the right people

Google sponsored the sharing of a Harvard Business Review article making cloud recommendations to the CEO.

The best line to keep in mind is "Delegating the move to the cloud to traditional IT people is like Putting the crew running the boiler and steam turbine in charge of electrifying the factory."

If you wonder why some cloud projects fall, keep in mind who the people were and their background.

Mortenson surveys 7x24 Exchange Fall attendees, shares report

Mortenson has a report on a surrey it conducted at 7x24 Exchange.

The current dynamics in the U.S. mission critical industry rival that of industries like tablet computers and smart phones.  Excitement for the industry could be seen at the Fall 2011 7x24 Exchange Conference where a record-breaking number of data center and facilities professionals gathered at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel.We gathered feedback from 90 professionals at the conference to conduct this study.  Respondents described a market that is strong despite the struggling economy, where transformational changes are taking place across a broad array of operational areas.

Here are a few things that I found interesting in the report.

Developer Mobile Experience iOS vs. Android, Bankruptcy reality

One of my cloud and mobile friends passed on this post on LinkedIn by one of his friends who writes about his 18 month experience creating a mobile app for iOS and Android.

Here is outline of the author's points

Development Costs are Rising

Customer Acquisition Costs are rising

Monetization is Falling…like a rock

Apple is getting harder to work with

and the author closes with.

The net of this is that the apps economy is bankrupt; if you’re thinking of building and launching an “app”, you missed the window.

If an “app” is a way to engage users as part of your broader strategy, then maybe – but do you really need an “app” to do this or can you do it through a mobile website, webapp or something cheaper and easier to develop?

Don Barnetson was the co-founder and head of sales & marketing at DDT Software, Inc; he is currently enjoying some downtime with his wife and new daughter.

Keep the following in mind if you are thinking of developing a million dollar iPhone app.

Apple is getting harder to work with

• Apple Approval Hell:  7 Day approval cycle?  Try 13 weeks…3 appeals, 4 new binaries.
• Apple Changes their Mind Arbitrarily:  6 weeks after our 13 week approval we tried to add a new in-app purchase; we were told that our existing in-app purchase was now “non-compliant” as Apple had changed their interpretation of their own rules and only “actual content” was allowed to use auto-renewing subscriptions; not catalogs.  Ohh, and they’ll be applying this new interpretation retroactively in a few months so no option to just leave what we have in store.
• Apple bled us out:  We planned on a two week approval cycle and a launch before thanksgiving; instead it took 3 months and we had to launch in December (don’t do that, by the way).  We thus consumed our marketing budget on engineering and had no coverage left for paid acqusition post-launch.