Google's Data Center Videos, 1 week 2.2mil views vs. 2 1/2 yrs 1.3 mil views

Google made a lot of news with its data center photography and video.

One way to look at how well the videos is to looking at the traffic.  The latest video exceeded the first video in less than a week vs. 2 1/2 years of steady views.

The Latest Video.

Video statistics

Views and discovery

2,228,718

Views

 

Key discovery events

A

First referral from: Google

Oct 11, 2012 - 76,628 views

B

First embedded on: wired.com

Oct 16, 2012 - 53,618 views

The first Container Data Center video in 2009. 

Video statistics

Views and discovery

1,315,216

Views

 

Key discovery events

A

First embedded on: www.google.com

Apr 7, 2009 - 14,171 views

B

First embedded on: blogoscoped.com

Apr 7, 2009 - 15,559 views

Amazon Web Services has another outage, is there a pattern

Amazon Web Services has another outage.  The news is about the sites that are down.

Update: Amazon Web Services Down In North Virginia — Reddit, Pinterest, Airbnb, Foursquare, Minecraft And Others Affected

ROMAIN DILLET

posted 10 hours ago

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What started as a small issue affecting some instances of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) in North Virginia became a full-blown outage of AWS in North Virginia. Major services, such as Reddit, Foursquare, Minecraft and Heroku, are down. GitHub, imgur, Pocket, HipChat, Coursera and others are affected. 

CTO of Fast Company tweets on what this outage can look like.

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Here’s what an aws outage looks like from within: notice the dip to zero, then how chaotic things are to the right.pic.twitter.com/V7ONMXMd

 

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Amazon Web Services outages are so common there is a possible pattern.  

Why we write about Google, traffic

Apple and Google are some of the top data center topics to write about.  Apple doesn't say a lot, but when they do, there is traffic all over the place.

Google is saying more than Apple with its photography and data center web site.

So, why does the media write so much about Apple and Google.  Simple.  Traffic.

Here is my traffic over the last few days when I wrote about Google data center photography.

This is one huge advantage Google has telling its data center story.  

Hit the 500+ connections on LinkedIn, decided to finally push

Some people religiously use LinkedIn.  I kind of use it when it is convenient and don't actually use the LinkedIn website more than every other week.  So, it's been a slow crawl to get up to 500+.  Yesterday I hit 499, and I decided to let LinkedIn crawl my e-mail to look for connections that I haven't connect with.  The list was 700+, and I whittled it down to 110 to connect with people who I know, but haven't' added them.  The 500th connection was a good friend who I have know for over 20 years and we both worked at Apple and Microsoft.

Here is a stream of the past 24 hours of connections that I decided to add.  I think this is most connections I have added in 24 hrs.  Thanks for accepting my connect requests.

Google's super secret PUE plan is leaked

OK, this is too easy to just keep on writing about Google's data center images.  I think the release of the photos is better than a conference event.  Well, not all, but many.

One funny post is the top 10 easter eggs.

10 Easter eggs from inside a Google data center

The one I missed is this picture of the Google super secret PUE plan.  The author doesn't get it that the sub 1.0 PUE would be a good goal, not a bad one.

When you’re a big tech company, it’s never a good idea to let your secret plans leak out. In this case however, they might just want to rethink the plan entirely.