Does Google's call for NC Renewable Energy paint a target on Duke Energy for Greenpeace?

I was in NC last week, and missed the Google event in Lenoir, NC.  When I am doing technical data center work I take almost no pictures and don’t write any blog entries which is why I was so quiet last week and it was understandable I missed the Google event.

GigaOm’s Katie Fehrenbacher did cover the Google announcement and put things in perspective of her visit to NC.

Google calls on utilities to sell it clean energy for data centers, starting in North Carolina

by Katie Fehrenbacher

APR. 19, 2013 - 8:30 AM PDT

SUMMARY:

Google is asking utilities to create programs that will sell companies clean power if they’re willing to pay for it, starting with Duke Energy in North Carolina.

It seems with Google’s announcements and Facebook’s announcements, they are both deflecting Greenpeace to go after others.  Will Greenpeace start protesting Duke Energy?

Blogging tips from the Best

GigaOm's Katie Fehrenbacher has a post on how some of the best bloggers got to the top.  

A lesson from the blogging elite: there are many ways to the top

by Katie Fehrenbacher

21 HOURS AGO

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photo: Albert Chau

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There’s more than one way to the top of the elite blogging ladder. Here’s lessons from four bloggerati that made it there.

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The really surprising thing about a conversation with some of the blogging world’s most celebrated names is how little they actually have in common — in terms of their motivations, strategies and business models. At paidContent Live on Wednesday, Brain Picking’s Maria Popova, New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, The Dish’s Andrew Sullivan, and web marketing guru Tim Ferriss, discussed the various reasons why they blog, and how (if at all) they monetize their web work.

Facebook's PUE and WUE Dashboard https://www.fbpuewue.com/prineville

I found the announcement for Facebook's PUE and WUE dashboard on The Register.

Bit barn efficiency metrics on a minute-by-minute basis

By Jack Clark in San Francisco • Get more from this author

Posted in Data Center, 18th April 2013 17:00 GMT

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Facebook has heaped pressure on major data center operators to be more transparent, publishing a dashboard that gives up-to-the-minute figures on the efficiency of the social network's gigantic bit barns.

But, no reference to the Facebook url.

Looked at DatacenterKnowledge, again no URL for the Facebook dashboard.

Then hit GigaOm and found the URL. 

The facilities are still under construction, and, as a result, the data in the two dashboards can have abnormalities, but it should become more stable over time. The company detailed its plans in a Thursday blog post on the Open Compute Project site.

With the blog post that the Register and DCK use to report.

A new way to report PUE and WUE

Thursday, April 18, 2013 · Posted by Lyrica McTiernan at 09:10 AM

Today Facebook launched two public dashboards that report continuous, near-real-time data for key efficiency metrics – specifically, PUE and WUE – for our data centers in Prineville, OR and Forest City, NC. These dashboards include both a granular look at the past 24 hours of data and a historical view of the past year’s values. In the historical view, trends within each data set and correlations between different metrics become visible. Once our data center in Luleå, Sweden, comes online, we’ll begin publishing for that site as well.

It is a bit ironic that in a post about transparency it took me so long to find the original FB blog post and the dashboard. https://www.fbpuewue.com/prineville with one years worth of data.

Disclosure: I work for GigaOm Pro as freelance analyst and like the fact that they embrace transparency in reporting.

Getting back to writing again

I had an awesome vacation and a break from blogging.  And, then jumped on a plane to head to data center land in NC.  What is more fun Disneyland or DatacenterLand?  From a family perspective Disneyland.

From a work aspect DatacenterLand is pretty fun too.  My family just may not relate as much to the excitement of solving technical and logistics problems.

No pictures, no blogging from DatacenterLand. :-)

What's the rest of story behind Adobe's Business Catalyst move to AWS

Werner Vogel proudly tweets.

Werner Vogels ‏@Werner18h

honored to support #Adobe RT @abroadway: #BusinessCatalyst moving to #AWS http://wv.ly/10wJRkd  I'II never build another datacenter again

Here is the Adobe post on its move to AWS.

In the coming months, we will be focusing our attention on transitioning the Business Catalyst platform from our existing data centers over to this new cloud infrastructure. Based on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform, this infrastructure will ensure increased stability, reliability and scalability as the number of sites hosted with Business Catalyst grows into the future. If you are familiar with AWS yourself, you’ll also know this means even faster load times and higher quality of service for visitors to your client sites.

Turns out there is more behind this story.

I'll write a future post on this story as there are some good lessons behind the move.