Amazon Web Services Tech Open House, Werner Vogels and Mardi Gras

Feb 8 was an Amazon Web Services event with a Mardi Gras theme.  Werner Vogels opened the short presentations.

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Cool, @mrgunn from @mendeley_com brought his "coding for libraries" buddies to the amazon tech open house tonight #aws

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#aws customer David from @climatecorp presenting at the Amazon Technology Open House - moby.to/3vlxdo

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Madri Gras at Amazon Technology Open House getting ready (including Jazz Band) - moby.to/zj7ug4

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Mardi Gras at Amazon Technology Open House is this afternoon!wv.ly/zTmuXA

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Seattleites, join us for Mardi Gras at Amazon Technology Open House and presentation by David Friedberg of @climatecorpwv.ly/zTmuXA

There was probably close to 200 people there.

There was a half dozen Amazon recruiters there.  Running a search on Amazon's career website for "Amazon Web Services" it looks like there are 1,200 jobs open (63 pages with 20 jobs per page).

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Product Manager - Amazon Web Services (ID 160987)	US, WA, Seattle
Product Manager: Amazon Web Services   Amazon Web Services ("AWS") is blazing new trails as a pioneer in the extremely high potential Web Services arena. AWS is looking for a Product Manager to help define and drive the product strategy and roadmap that will help a new AWS offering. This is a highly visible position that will interact at all levels of the AWS and Amazon.com… Read more and Apply
Principle Business Intelligence Engineer, AWS Data Services (ID 166121)	US, WA, Seattle
Amazon Web Services is looking for a talented Business Intelligence Engineer who has a passion for Big Data systems.  Come join the team that is building a disruptive new service for processing Big Data streams.  Our globally distributed service must be able to process over 2 million records per second at launch, and eventually scale to handle over 100x that traffic.  It is… Read more and Apply
Sr. Professional Services Consultant - Amazon Web Services (ID 164839)	US, VA, Herndon
Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster, at lower cost?  Do you like to work on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects using the newest technology?   Would you like to gain the deepest customer and partner insights on maximizing… Read more and Apply

Here is a slide of Amazon's data centers and CDNs.

Got a chance to sit down with a Microsoft guy and an Amazon guy while watching the presentations and chatted briefly with James Hamilton.  The event was well worth the time, and I keep on hearing of other friends who are joining Amazon.

One person asked when I was going to join Amazon.  After 26 years at HP, Apple, and Microsoft, I really enjoy being on my own. :-)  But, who knows maybe it would be fun to work for Amazon for a year or two.

Is Facebook worth $100 Billion? Economist reader survey 82% say No

It will be interesting on how Facebook's IPO goes.  One piece of data is an Economist reader survey with over 11,000 submittals.

The Economist Asks

Is Facebook worth $100 billion?

You voted: NoCurrent total votes: 11217

After Facebook's much-awaited initial public offering, many observers expect the firm's market capitalisation to quickly exceed $100 billion. Some think that this is ludicrous: Facebook may be the world's biggest social network, but its revenues (an estimated $4 billion in 2011) and profits are nowhere near enough to justify such a price tag. Others bet that the firm will live up to the hype: it collects huge amounts of data about its 800m plus users, can serve up creepily well-targeted ads and, perhaps most important, could become a quasi-monopolist in the mould of Microsoft. What do you think? Is Facebook really worth $100 billion?

Voting opened on Feb 1st 2012

Telling White Lies is common practice for many Doctors, who else is lying to you on a regular basis

Most people don't think other people lie.  The media doesn't lie.  Commercial don't lie.  They just tell stories in a way that fulfills their own needs.

MSNBC posts on how Doctors tell white lies.

Many docs tell white lies, study finds

By MyHealthNewsDaily staff
MyHealthNewsDaily

Everybody lies — even doctors.

A new study finds 11 percent of doctors say that they have told a patient or a child's guardian something that was not true in the past year, and about 20 percent say they have not fully disclosed a mistake to a patient because they were afraid of being sued.

The results also show 34 percent of doctors surveyed did not "completely agree" that physicians should disclose all significant medical errors to affected patients. Instead, these doctors said they only somewhat agreed, or disagreed.

The researchers admit they have more work to do.

To be fair, the researchers acknowledged not knowing the circumstances under which physicians lied, and communication regarding health issues can be complex. Physicians must often wade through conflicting and confusing information as a case goes on. Telling a patient something that turns out to be wrong might not be helpful, the researchers said.

More research is needed to better understand when and why physicians feel justified in a lapse of honesty.

And guess what the minorities and women were more honest than the white men.

Women and minority physicians were more likely than white, male doctors to say they agreed with the principles of honesty and openness, according to the study. This may be because, as underrepresented groups in medicine, women and minorities feel more compelled to comply with such professional codes, the researchers wrote.

If some doctors lie on a regular basis it is hard to believe that in your data center operations, there are not people who accept telling white lies.

Do you think about this when designing monitoring systems?

Google takes the Lead in Greenpeace's Cool IT Climate Leaderboard

Greenpeace's Gary Cook posts on Greenpeace's latest Green IT Scorecard with Google in the leadership position.

Google wrests control of Cool IT climate Leaderboard

Blogpost by Gary Cook - February 8, 2012 at 9:00

The tussle for the top of our Cool IT Leaderboard has taken its latest twist, with Google grabbing the top spot ahead of 20 other tech companies, including Cisco and Ericsson.

Google is singled out as the leader.

Google is way ahead on climate solutions and energy impacts, thanks to its disclosure of its energy footprint, and for providing its impressively detailed mitigation plan for achieving emissions reductions. On top of this, Google continues to speak up on important climate change policies, and make its voice heard on the immediate need for both US and EU governments to aggressively cut emissions.

Last is Oracle with a score of 10 vs Google's 53.  The full report is here.

The IT Energy impact score has IBM in the lead.

And Fujitsu leading the IT Climate Soltuitons.

And Political Advocacy has Softbank with high score.

IBM and Tulip Telecom launch Largest India Green Data Center in 5MW increments up to 100MW

IBM and Tulip Telecom have worked together to launch the first of 20 modular data center pods in a 100MW four tower building configuration. When you look at this building, it is actually 4 separate buildings connected with an atrium.  One of the top questions that most of you will ask is what kind of power reliability can you get in India for 100MW load.  Speaking to Mike Hogan, Global offering Executive IBM Site and Facilities Services, he shared that the site has two power feeds to the site, and 4 separate network taps, making the site an ideal opportunity for a data center.

The building above has a green hue to it, and it has green features.

The new highly efficient data center is designed to international green building standards and engineered with power, chillers, cooling, rack layout and uninterrupted power supply systems.

The expected PUE performance is about 1.6 -1.7.  A lower PUE is challenging in the conditions in Bangalore, and given it is a hosting facility the equipment is not totally controlled by Tulip and IBM.  There is cold aisle containment, raised inlet temperatures and raised chilled water temperatures as well.  Given the cost of electricity and infrastructure challenges electricity is a resource that is used wisely.  Note, this building is a true data center with the staff in the building there to support the IT operations.  Call center operations are not in this building as the space and power were so valuable.

The media has latched on to air side economizers, but when you think of how to build a building in 5% increments of capacity (twenty 5 MW PODs), it can be much more difficult to expand capacity with air handlers vs. chilled water pipes.  The rack density was designed to be in the 4 - 6 kW per rack density.  For higher densities, chilled water can be brought direct to rack.

IBM's top design challenge was how to get the highest density of capacity in the footprint of the building, be cost effective, green, and efficient.  The first of 20 PODs is ready for occupancy and the building is designed for continuous operation as additional diesel generators are installed, power and cooling infrastructure upgraded, and white space is finished.  Going tall is one case where containers where not a viable option for modularity.

Here is an IBM video with Tulip executives discussing  the data center.

The press release from IBM is here.

Tulip Telecom and IBM Build India’s Largest Data Center to Address Rapid Growth of Mobile Consumers in Emerging Markets

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Bangalore, India - 07 Feb 2012:

- 900,000 square foot facility uses advanced green design for maximum efficiency
- New IBM SmartCloud services allow Tulip to deliver Infrastructure, Storage and Platform-as-a-Service to customers 
- Modular Data Center design and high reliability supports up to 100 megawatts of power
- Virtual tour takes you inside state-of-the-art facility

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has worked with Tulip Telecom Ltd. to design and help build the largest data center facility in India to deliver new cloud and networking services.

Below is a video of Mike presenting on Green Data Center and the cloud.