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Dell started 5 years with a different idea to develop custom servers for the Internet companies who had different needs than enterprise IT. Yesterday Dell announced its 1,000,000th server shipment.
One Million Reasons to Celebrate – DCS Ships its One Millionth Server
The idea behind Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) all started with a sketch on the back of a napkin. A new breed of customer – Internet companies building giant data center capacity – found themselves in need of a new type of server to support their massive scale. This trend didn't go unnoticed over at Dell. In 2007, an intrepid band of scrappy, entrepreneurial-minded engineers under Forrest Norrod saw this opportunity and created a business targeted at specifically addressing these unique needs, and a new server segment along the way. They began creating solutions around servers designed specifically for massive scale environments or what would become known as the cloud.
This group combined a start-up mentality with the resources of a global technology powerhouse – the perfect synergy of pioneer spirit, innovative thinking, and deep technical and marketplace expertise.
Here is a YouTube video that goes along with the announcement.
Barton George sent me the above info from his post.
Here is a graphic that shows the accomplishment.
I've heard from a few that some trans-Atlantic circuits are down. With power outages and flooding from Sandy, some data centers are reported out, but what doesn't get much news is the trans-Atlantic circuits.
GigaOm's Barb Darrow has a post on this topic.
Data center sites and colocation centers in and around New York City are struggling to stay online with varying degrees of success. And there are reports of intermittent issues with undersea cables crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: Hurricane Sandy continued to take a toll on internet infrastructure in New York City and beyond on Tuesday.
- There were sporadic issues with undersea cable Atlantic Crossing-2 (or AC-2), sources said. These cables are the main data lifeline between continents.
Here is a close up of one company's trans-Atlantic connections at risk.
I was looking at the GigaOm Pro Roundtable Webinar and saw an interesting talk that sounded good to attend.
DATE: November 6, 2012
TIME: 10 a.m. PDT
In this webinar we will discuss how the core characteristics of the cloud – such as on-demand resources, usage-based charging and geographic dispersion – translate into business value; revenue growth, cost and risk reduction, and improved customer experience.
Topics include:
- Economic and strategic perspective of computing as a utility
- Public versus private cloud economics and where conventional wisdom err
- How cloud technology and ecosystems will evolve over the next decade
- Hear from Joe Weinman, the founder of ‘cloudonomics’ and take part in a Q&A with Joe on the topic
Within a few more seconds, I realized, oh yeh. I am on the panel. :-) I'll be on the call for sure.
Paul Miller
Founder, The Cloud of DataJo Maitland
Research Director, Cloud, GigaOM ProDave Ohara
GigaOM Pro Analyst and Founder, GreenM3Joe Weinman
COO, Telx
GigaOm's Barb Darrow posts on a few sites knocked out by Con Ed turning off the power in lower manhattan.
Not everyone’s data centers were ready for Hurricane Sandy. Several major media sites —Buzzfeed, Gawker, Huffington Post — took major hits early Monday evening Eastern Time. The problems were all attributed to massive storm, which made landfall near Atlantic City, N.J., at around 8 p.m. local time.
Update: Many of these sites were impacted when Con Ed shut off power to lower Manhattan.
Due to #Sandy we're experiencing technical difficulties and are working to be back up as soon as possible.
We'll see how many other sites join this list.
The East Coast Data Centers are ready for Hurricane Sandy.
With Sandy on horizon, East Coast data centers on high alert
Providers test generators, staff up facilities, ensure fuel deliveries29 October 2012 by Yevgeniy Sverdlik - DatacenterDynamics
Satellite image of Hurricane Sandy by the US NOAA Data center operators on the US East Coast are bracing for Hurricane Sandy’s landfall, expected by meteorologists on Monday evening.
Providers with substantial data center presence in the region, including Equinix, Savvis, Telx and Sungard Availability Services, have taken the basic steps to make sure their facilities are prepared to keep operational through prolonged power outages.
The basic steps all data center providers that have responded to our inquiries have taken are testing back-up generators, making sure onsite fuel-storage tanks are full, getting in touch with fuel vendors to ensure in-time deliveries in case fuel stored at the data center sites runs out.
The President has declared Emergency situations in 9 states.
The President's action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in all counties in the State of New Jersey.
Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Emergency protective measures, limited to direct federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding.
For those who have run data centers through Federal Emergency conditions they know that a contract with a fuel vendor is not worth much when the Federal gov't has established control of critical resources to address the emergency.
Elizabeth Turner has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal response operations in the affected area.
FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
Depending on how bad the power outages are, how refineries are impacted, diesel fuel could be extremely scarce. And, a data center could run out of fuel even if it has multiple contracts with fuel vendors.
There is a way to get fuel during a FEMA managed event as a smart data center guy asked this question over a year ago, and we talked about how to solve this problem. I found a guy who has been in the fuel business for years supplying airlines and remote power plants with petroleum fuel, and he has been thinking for who you could make sure you get fuel.
BTW, one of the easier ways to get fuel during a disaster is to have your facility be defined as critical infrastructure by gov't agencies. But, that also brings a huge amount of oversight and regulation.
