Amazon rumored to go Physical, Brick and Mortar Kindle store to open in Seattle

Amazon has disrupted the Retail Business Model with no physical presence.  Amazon Web Services is a self-servicing model of IT services.

There have been tons of articles written about the flaw of a Brick and Mortar store, and how Amazon has an unfair advantage without the costs of Brick and Mortar stores.

But, what happens if Amazon does open a store?

Amazon in the Process of Launching a Retail Store

By Michael Kozlowski

Amazon sources close to the situation have told us that the company is planning on rolling out a retail store in Seattle within the next few months. This project is a test to gauge the market and see if a chain of stores would be profitable. They intend on going with the small boutique route with the main emphasis on books from their growing line of Amazon Exclusives and selling their e-readers and tablets.

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The company has already contracted the design through a shell company, which is not unusual for Amazon. When Amazon releases new products to the FCC it is always done through anonymous proxy companies to avoid disclosure to their competition on what they are working on. They are doing this for the actual first store layout and design, while modeling themselves after Apple.

What would happen if AWS had people to help sell AWS?

Good for a good laugh, my son misses the rail skiing

I don't blog on the weekends during ski season as there is not a whole lot of spare time, and there is limited Internet access.  Spending time with the kids is fun and great family time.  In this case, it is also good for a laugh.

Below is a video I shot today of my son having fun trying to balance his skis on iron rails.

Just to let you know my son was fine.  He didn't hit any of the metal, and just had a face plant on to soft snow.  He has a full helmet and goggles.

He is curious how many YouTube views he'll have.

I need to get him to watch this video before he tries again.

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.