Singapore Data Center Market grows

If you look at where to locate data centers a report to consider is the ease of doing business WW.  Here are the top 10.

CFOWorld has an article on the Singapore Data Center market.

A million square foot of data centre space

By Zafar Anjum

June 07, 2012 03:35 pm | MIS Asia

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Is Singapore fast becoming a data centre hub in the region? It seems to be so. Reason: data centres are mushrooming in the city state.

This is happening due to an uptick in the demand for services such as cloud computing and increased consumption of content over the Internet.

For example, in April this year, two brand new data centres started operations in Singapore. One is by Telco operator NTT which unveiled a data centre located at the North Serangoon suburb in Singapore. Built to Tier 3 specifications, the data centre building stands at five floors high and offers 5,000 sq m of rack space, with some 2,500 racks.

Singapore is becoming a data center hub.  Amazon is there,  Google, and many others.

Why Singapore?

"Singapore as a geography is a preferred geography for many multinationals," says Srinivasan CR, vice president, Data Center and Infrastructure Managed Services, Product Management, Global Data and Managed Services, Tata Communications. "Thereby, Singapore market is a fairly international market rather than a local market. I think there is demand for space because of the kind of offering Singapore as a country has to make to international companies. It is a very politically stable country-it has all the infrastructure that is needed for a stable data centre."

Why Dell made a smart move with its ARM Servers, providing a Hosting Service

I've been blogging about ARM in servers for quite a while and have had many conversations with people who think there is a market for little green servers.

Dell announced its ARM Server last week.  The one part that I kept on focusing on is the way Dell is delivering, well not delivering the ARM Servers.

Enabling other customers and developers by providing remote-accessible Copper ARM server clusters deployed in Dell Solution Centers, and through our deep partnership with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). These clusters will be in place by the end of the year.

Not only does this provide a low cost way to increase the availability of Dell ARM servers, it provides data to Dell on what customers are doing.

A handful of people are getting ARM servers, and I am sure we won't hear anything from these uses for quite a while.  But, it is a safe bet there is an overlap with the Seamicro customer base.

• Shipping the new Dell “Copper” ARM server through a seed unit program to a select list of customers worldwide. There is no general availability at this time.
• Delivering Copper seed units to key ecosystem partners to support their development activities.

Here is a video to watch on the server.

The Dell ARM web site is here for more info.

Dell drives innovation for the ARM server ecosystem

Enterprises that run large web, cloud and big data environments are constantly seeking new technology to gain competitive advantage and reduce operations cost. This focus is motivating a dramatic interest in ARM-based server technologies as a way to meet these requirements. What is ARM? An advanced RISC machine (ARM) server employs small, low-power ARM processors, typically deployed as systems on a chip (SoC) to reduce space, power consumption and cost. ARM processors are present in billions of client devices, but they have not been previously adopted for use in servers, due to the feature set, performance and limited software ecosystem.  Moving ARM to the forefront Now that the processors have grown in capability, and the basic open source software is available, both customers and developers are anxious to test ARM servers to confirm the potential benefits within real-world environments. In response to customer demand, Dell has decided to enable the Dell “Copper” ARM-based server ecosystems, by: Shipping Dell "Copper" ARM servers to a select list of customers and partners, as part of a worldwide seed program. Systems have already begun shipping, but there is no general availability of the Dell "Copper" servers at this time. Enabling developers worldwide through remote-accessible Dell "Copper" ARM server clusters, in Dell Solution Centers and through our close partnership with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC – UT). Delivering Dell ARM-supported solutions to the open source community, such as Crowbar on ARM and Crowbar for Hadoopon ARM.
		Dell "Copper" ARM server chassis and sleds
		Dell "Copper" ARM server sled

A Perspective on why the VC model is broken

Geekwire reported on an analysis run by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

The full report – “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY… AND HE IS US: Lessons from Twenty Years of the Kauffman Foundation’s Investments in Venture Capital Funds and The Triumph of Hope over Experience” – can be downloaded here. It is also embedded below.

Netflix open sources its HW and SW CDN Solution

Open Compute has started the open sourcing of servers and data centers.  Storage is another big area, and Netflix has shared its design.

The home page is here.

Netflix Open Connect Content Delivery Network

Around the world, people are enjoying nearly a billion hours per month of movies and TV shows from Netflix. Now, Netflix is enabling ISPs to get Netflix video data directly from Open Connect, a single-purpose content delivery network we've established.

Most of you want to see the HW.

Objectives

When designing the Open Connect Appliance Hardware, we focused on these fundamental design goals:

• Very high storage density without sacrificing space and power efficiency. Our target was fitting 100 terabytes into a 4u chassis that is less than 2' deep.
• High throughput: 10 Gbps throughput via an optical network connection.
• Very low field maintenance: the appliance must tolerate a variety of hardware failures including hard drives, network optics, and power supply units.
• Simple racking and installation. Front mounted power and network ports are the only things to connect at install time.
• 

 Here is the BOM for the HW.

Bill of Materials

Description	Vendor & Model	Quantity
Chassis	TST custom	1
Motherboard	Supermicro X9SCM-F	1
Processor	Intel E3-1260L	1
Memory	8GB ECC 1333MHz	4
Hard Drive	Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 3TB	36
Hard Drive (alternate)	Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB	36
Controller	LSI SAS 9201-16i 16 port	2
Network card	Supermicro AOC-STGN-i2S	1
Redundant Power Supply Unit (AC/DC options)	Zippy MRW-5600V4V/DMRW-5600V4V	1
Misc.	2U active CPU Heatsink, SATA Cables, NIC optics

Then design has AC and DC power supplies.

There is 1 TB of flash.

We also add 1 TB of flash storage (2 solid state drives) for system files, logs and popular content.

You can get more details on the site.

Open Connect

• Overview
• FAQ
• Peering Information
• Hardware Design
• Software Design
• Deployment Guide
• ISP Inquiry

Change Your LinkedIn Password, 6.5 million leaked, 576 news articles

I've changed my LinkedIn password.  Have you?

There are 576 news articles on the leak.

6.5 million LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online ‎ CNET - 6 hours ago A hacker says he's posted 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords on the Web -- hot on the heels of security researchers' warnings about privacy issues ... by Lance Whitney - More by Lance Whitney Highly Cited: Millions of LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked - take action NOW‎ Ars Technica Blog: 6.5M LinkedIn Passwords Posted Online After Apparent Hack‎ PCWorld (blog) LinkedIn investigating reports of stolen passwords‎ The Associated Press All Things Digital - Computerworld (blog)  all 576 news articles »

I received this e-mail through LinkedIn which was suspicious.

LinkedIn

xxxxxx has sent you a message.

Date: 6/04/2012

Subject: How are you?

Dave,

It is good see that you are in a new adventure and I am sure you will do well. Can you say what you are doing? I hope they know they have a quality person like you! All the best to you and your family.