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There has been a pretty widely discussed rumor than IBM would buy SoftLayer. And, GigaOm's Barb Darrow reports on the rumor being true.
It’s official: IBM to buy SoftLayer
by Barb Darrow
10 MINS AGONo Comments
SUMMARY:SoftLayer and IBM’s legacy SmartCloud will form the basis of a new Global Cloud Services division.
In one of the industry’s worst-kept secrets, IBM is buying SoftLayer, a respected cloud services provider.
Google has a blog post on its latest renewable energy agreement in Sweden. Below is a map of the location of power from origin, where it exists in the grid, and the location of the Hamina Finland data center.
Google bought 100% of the wind power for 10 years.
Here’s how it works: O2, the wind farm developer, has obtained planning approval to build a new 72MW wind farm at Maevaara, in Övertorneå and Pajala municipality in northern Sweden, using highly efficient 3MW wind turbines. We’ve committed to buying the entire output of that wind farm for 10 years so that we can power our Finnish data center with renewable energy. That agreement has helped O2 to secure 100% financing for the construction of the wind farm from the investment arm of German insurance company Allianz, which will assume ownership when the wind farm becomes operational in early 2015.
WSJ publishes a hilarious parody of the commencement speech by Rob LeZebnik. I've gotten great laughs retelling the story. I won't spoil any of the story by clipping parts. Enjoy
A Message for the Class of 2013
Dear Graduates: You're pampered, privileged and oversexed—but at least your employment prospects are dim.
The WSJ article is a derivative of this video filmed in 2009.
American humorist Rob LaZebnik delivers a speech to the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1984 at their 25th Reunion Entertainment Evening, June 5, 2009, Sanders Theatre, Harvard.
Here is an example of how ridiculous things have gotten with the pampered and privileged class. NBCnews has a post on a high school with 21 valedictorians.
In fact, at South Medford High, all of those 21 valedictorians can tellcolleges
they are No. 1 in their class.
This is where “New School” has crushed “Old School.” And this is where college administrators say they are growing increasingly suspicious about the surge in applicants who boast the laurels of “valedictorian” and “head of class.”
“Yes, it has definitely watered things down a little bit,” said Jim Rawlins, president of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. “Definitely, the more ultra-selective universities have to be more critical and skeptical of class ranks than before.
GigaOm has a great post to get people thinking that not having investors in your startup is a an option many should consider.
Who needs investors! Why many startups should bootstrap instead
by Andrew Gazdecki, Guest Contributor
MAY. 25, 2013 - 12:00 PM PDT26 Comments
photo: docent/ShutterstockSUMMARY:Many of today’s startups are obsessed with figuring out the best way to score investors. But for many companies bootstrapping it might result in a better product and a healthier business in the long run.
One of the benefits mentioned in this post is "limits set useful boundaries"
Some of the best data centers embrace their constraints. Those data centers who spent the most money are rarely the most beautiful.
Many people have an illusion that great design come from no constraints. Google and Apple have billions of dollars to create new services. But, think about some of the most innovative ideas are being created by start-ups. Here is a talk that illustrates the specific point of the beauty of design with constraints.
Faruk Ateş
Constraints, or “things that limit freedom,” sound like a pretty bad thing. But in this talk I will explain not just that constraints are a good thing, but that they are beautiful—and important for great design, great software, and great products.
Someone asked me what Amazon Web Service is going to do next. For the past month, I've been thinking about this problem and what can you see from looking at the releases.
I'll write a post over the next couple of weeks on what I think AWS is doing next. Once you see it, it is hard not to think it has to be true.
Also, Netcraft has a report on AWS growth. With a pretty good estimate of the server count.
Geographic distribution of computers per EC2 region in May 2013
Data Centre (EC2 - Web Facing Computers) February 2013 March 2013 April 2013 May 2013 Growth (4 month) Asia Pacific (Singapore) 6,576 6,805 6,998 7,290 10.9% Asia Pacific (Sydney) 499 739 1,129 1,427 186% Asia Pacific (Tokyo) 7,342 7,595 8,065 8,601 17.1% EU West (Ireland) 23,778 24,635 25,326 25,942 9.1% South America (Sao Paulo) 2,115 2,263 2,396 2,655 25.6% US East (Northern Virginia) 87,094 88,543 92,426 93,537 7.4% US West (Northern California) 9,325 9,478 9,715 9,695 4% US West (Oregon) 5,217 5,573 5,965 7,051 35.2% GovCloud (Oregon) 14 17 21 27 92.9%
