Tip for 7x24 Exchange Attendees, spend a bit more time to enjoy the location

The 7x24 Exchange staff goes through a lot of effort to find a locate for their conferences. I've had the pleasure of attending the last 4 conferences in Phoenix and Florida.  The first two I flew out within hours of the last session, but the last two I stuck around a bit longer.  In Florida I got a chance to relax with some other attendees and have pleasant conversations.

Yesterday the conference ended and I had 6 hours to enjoy the pool.  Four conference attendees are enjoying the sun in this picture.  I won't point them out, but we are all Pacific Northwest residents so getting a few hours of sun in 80 degrees before we go to the clouds and cold was well worth it.

What was the best part is I got a chance to catch up with 7x24 staff and enjoy a lunch conversation with the white noise from the waterfall.

As much as I enjoyed the 7x24 conference, some of the best discussions were by the pool after the conference.  

Posts on Google's Seven Years of Data Center history

For something different I posted the Google's Seven years of data center history on GigaOm.  Why?  Because I thought it was a good story to tell and the reach would be much broader on GigaOm vs. this blog.   The GigaOm post went up yesterday afternoon and the post made it to the home page.

The GigaOm post is here.

Google opens up on seven years of its data center history

• BY Dave Ohara, GigaOM Pro
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Google opened up on its data center operations today at an industry event in Phoenix. It shared how its thinking and practices have changed as it seeks to lower the costs and environment impact of its servers and IT infrastructure.

photo: Google

Google’s head of data center operations provided a seven-year look at how the search giant’s data center strategy has evolved during the 7×24 Exchange conference on Tuesday in Phoenix, Ariz.,providing a new look at the secretive search giant’s operations. From the company that pioneered the idea that the data center is no longer a place to keep servers, but rather a computer in and of itself, this evolution is eye-opening.

I got a nice bump in traffic.  Here is what I have so far as of 9a PT.  Note: the traffic for today should be much higher as the day progresses as only 9 of 24 hrs are shown.

The social traffic looks good with 452 tweets.

CNET picked up on the GigaOm post and created their own.

In an extension of its data-center glasnost, Google is offering an in-depth profile of its evolving strategy in center management.

During the 7×24 Exchange conference today in Phoenix, Joe Kava, the VP of data centers for Google, delivered a presentation giving an intimate look at how the company's data-center strategy has evolved, according to a GigOm report. Kava began his presentation with a seven-year timeline of Google's data-center history that showed the progression of the search giant's strategy.

DatacenterKnowledge threw up an entertaining post on the alligator in the storm pond.

Alligator Patrols Google’s Data Center

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Google Adopts Water as key to save Energy in Data Centers, pumps 3.85x better than fans

Data Center traditionally uses raised floor and in room CRAC units to supply cooling.

Google shared a month ago its hot aisle containment with water heat exchange which is the 5th iteration since 2006.

Google shared its thinking in evaluating heat removal methods.

So should you pump heat or use a fan?  Google modeled a 10MW IT load. The fans use 3.85x more energy than a pump!!!

Google found what it had created was so unique they could patent the innovation.

Google's Data Center Water use spans from ocean to reclaimed to industrial to storm to none

Joe Kava, VP of Data Centers at Google presented a keynote session at 7x24 Exchange Phoenix.  

One of the topics Joe discussed is the range of water used to cool Google's data centers.  Many discuss one technology as the best.  Google shows the wide range it uses to be the most efficient and sustainable at multiple sites. 

Sea Water in Hamina

Reclaimed Water is used in Georgia.

Industrial Canal Water in Belgium.

Storm Water in South Carolina.

And No water. or least little in Ireland.

Joe has been talking about water use in Google Data Centers since 2009.  Below is a video of Joe presenting at the 2009 Google Efficient Data Center Summit discussing the use of storm canal water in the cooling systems

Open Compute Summit #4, Jan 16-17 2013, Santa Clara

It's time again for the Open Compute Summit.  #4 is Jan 16-17, 2013 in Santa Clara.

Summit – 2013

The next Open Compute Summit is January 16-17, 2013, in Santa Clara, CA, USA.

Registration is now open, and is still free, so register today!

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