At the Open Compute Summit, Jason Taylor presented the 5 standard servers that Facebook uses.
The servers are used in this Facebook architecture.
If you want to see the video you can go here.
Three Executive Changes in Data Center Industry - Michael Siteman, Jim Kennedy and Dileep Bhandarkar
Here are three executives I've gotten to know at Data Center Conferences that have made Role Changes in the past couple of months. They have all updated their LinkedIn profiles which makes their move a public disclosure.
First Michael Siteman has move from JLL to Digital Realty Trust.
Michael Siteman
Solutions Director at Digital Realty Trust
- Greater Los Angeles Area
- Real Estate
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- Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc.,
- Leverage Lease, Inc.,
- TerraTrust
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Jim Kennedy moved from RagingWire to Google. Jim gave a great talk at 7x24 Exchange Fall on the economics of a water system's ROI when you account for the value of the power to business. Many make the mistake of just thinking of the cost of the power, and not the revenue that power brings into the company.
James Kennedy
Data Center Ops and Engineering at Google
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Information Technology and Services
Current Previous - RagingWire Data Centers,
- Submarine Squadron 15,
- USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN-705)
And, the most recent, Dileep Bhandarkar has moved from Microsoft's data center group to Qualcomm as VP of Technology.
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Lower Probability James Glanz will continue his attack on Data Centers, NYTimes dismantles Environmental Reporting Group
James Glanz NYTimes articles attacking the data center industry made quite the rounds in the data center community.
THE CLOUD FACTORIES
Power, Pollution and the Internet
Ethan Pines for The New York TimesData centers are filled with servers, which are like bulked-up desktop computers, minus screens and keyboards, that contain chips to process data.
It's been months waiting for the series to continue. But, guess what the NYtimes has dismantled its environmental reporting group.
The New York Times’s decision is to dismantle its four-year-old environment “pod” has been called everything from “an unmitigated disaster” to potentially “a good thing.”
In fact, a lot remains to be seen. InsideClimate News reporter Katherine Bagley broke the story on Friday and quoted Times managing editor Dean Baquet insisting that the change is structural and that the paper remains as committed to environmental coverage as ever. But he and other top editors haven’t provided many details about what that means.
Over the next few weeks, the environment pod’s two editors and seven reporters will be reassigned to other desks, including, presumably, Science, National, Business, and Foreign, but word in the newsroom is that few, if any, people know where they’re headed. It’s also unclear what will happen to the Green blog, though Baquet has said, “If it has impact and audience it will survive.”
Will someone else carry the torch to attack the evil data centers who pollute the world?
Tim O'Reilly's History of Open Source Talk at Open Compute Summit
Here is Tim O'Reilly's talk at the Open Compute Summit where he discusses the history of the Open Source movement.
Facebook Graph Search triggers withdrawal for some
ReadWrite has a post by Matt Assay on his withdrawal from Facebook which ironical has 104 Facebook Likes.
In rolling out its new Graph Search, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was quick to caution that "it's going to take years to index the whole map of the graph." That's great. It gives me time to completely remove myself from Facebook.
When I dropped off Facebook a few weeks ago, it wasn't in pursuit of some grand, moral crusade. I was simply trying to show solidarity with my 13-year old son, who had become obsessed (addicted?) to a massively multiplayer game played on Facebook. When I took away his Facebook privileges in an attempt to help him kick the habit, I decided that a hiatus from Facebook would do me some good, too, and would show him that I wasn't asking him to give up something that I, too, wasn't willing to abandon.
Little did I suspect the incredible relief that would come from cutting out Facebook and Instagram from my life. (I kept Twitter, however, as it has become a useful business tool for me.)
What is Matt's option. Hang out. Hang out not in Google+, but with real friends.
In sum, I'm enjoying my life sans Facebook, and I imagine I'll enjoy it even more now that Facebook wants to make it even easier to invade my personal space without real value in return. Maybe it will be useful for dating, but I have zero interest in this.
I just want a place to hang out with real friends. It turns out that there's an even better place to do this than Facebook. It's called "the real world."