Apple makes news with its latest Solar project in Nevada

Here is a bunch of news that just hit over the last couple of hours on Apple's latest solar project in Nevada.

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      Apple Invests In Solar Farm For Nevada Data Center
      

      Wall Street Journal (blog) ‎- by Ian Sherr ‎- 36 minutes ago

      Apple is building a new data center in Nevada that will be powered in part by a large, new solar array, in one of the largest renewable energy ...
    

2. Apple is building a solar grid for its data center in Reno, Nevada

   thenextweb.com/apple/.../apple-to-build-solar-grid-to-power-data-center-...‎

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   1 hour ago - Apple has confirmed plans to build an 18 to 20-megawatt solar panel farm for its upcoming data center in Reno, Nevada.

3. Apple's solar array to bring 100 jobs to region - Reno Gazette-Journal

   

   www.rgj.com/.../Apple-offers-1st-glimpse-proposed-solar-array-...‎

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   by Brian Duggan - in 204 Google+ circles

   2 hours ago - The first glimpse of Apple Inc.'s proposed 18-megawatt photovoltaic solar plant that will keep the servers running in its NorthernNevada data ...

    

4. Apple Plans A Reno Solar Farm To Power Its Data Center - AllThingsD

   allthingsd.com/.../apple-plans-a-reno-solar-farm-to-power-its-data-center...‎

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   1 hour ago - appleSolar In conjunction with Nevada utility company NV Energy, Appleplans to build a solar array next to its Reno, Nevada data center, ...

5. Apple is planning a solar panel farm for its data center in Reno ...

   

   gigaom.com/.../apple-is-planning-a-solar-panel-farm-for-its-data...‎

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   by Katie Fehrenbacher - in 1,031 Google+ circles

   2 hours ago - Apple, working with Nevada utility NV Energy, is planning to build another solar panel farm next to a data center, and this time it's for its new ...

    

6. Apple to Build Solar Panel Farm for Reno Data Center - Mac Rumors

   www.macrumors.com/.../apple-to-build-solar-panel-farm-for-reno-data-c...‎

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   1 hour ago - Apple is planning to work with Nevada utility company NV energy to build asolar panel farm next to its Reno data center, reports GigaOM.

DCIM is not living up to expectations

2-3 years ago I used to write about DCIM, but stopped when I started to talk to more and more companies.  I would watch mostly silently and read the different press releases and new product announcements. 

The 451 group released on June 21, 2013 an analysis.

DCIM is becoming a necessity for a growing number of datacenter operators, but market penetration and sales cycles have taken longer than anticipated. Another issue is that full DCIM suite deployments are often phased in over time, resulting in staggered revenue for suppliers. Many investors did not foresee these factors, nor did they fully appreciate how adverse to change operators have historically been, among other inhibitors. We believe the overinvestment in the DCIM sector was brought about by a mix of herd behavior and inadequate due diligence (datacenter operators are characteristically guarded, and the market is not often well understood by outsiders). There has been a slowdown in VC, in general, and with too much investment chasing too few large DCIM deals, VCs have largely stepped back from the sector in 2013. If they haven't done so already, VCs and management should be reviewing their prospects. Many investors, but not all, will be disappointed in the next 12-18 months, if not already.

The winners were some of the ones most heavily funded with the prettiest powerpoint slides.

A less welcome fact is that the DCIM supplier sector is overcrowded, with more than 55 companies. More than 80% are privately held; many are venture-capital-backed (see our previous report Will the DCIM supplier bubble slowly deflate?). Although there are still new entrants into the market, enthusiasm in the venture community has cooled.

Friends taking care of Friends

I am on vacation this week.  Opending time at 6,000 ft with good 4G connections.

A last minute trip from some NC data center friends making a trip Seattle left me at a loss for my inability to host the visitors.  Within minutes of texting my NC friend I am not in town I reached out to two other friends and see if they could join our visitors to Seattle.  For the next 10 minutes dozens of texts fly to coordinate schedules and locations.  My NC friends land in SEA the next day and within an hour everyone is together drinking beers enjoying a seafood dinner.

One of the simple pleasures in life is to host friends when they visit.  What even feels better is friends who will take your place to host out of town of visitors.

Spending time thinking and enjoying a vacation

Last week at GigaOm Structure and this week is a family vacation.

Kids are in ski camp.

We are at Mt Hood one of the few places you can ski year round.

I have my bloody mary.  Reading and not writing so much.  But still have some e-mails need to get out.

7a getting the kids on the mountain, then hanging in the lodge.

Love my Canon 6D.  All these shots are without flash.

Who is crawling GreenM3 and some other metrics

I don't spend as much time as I used to on site analytics.  This morning though I was looking at what crawls www.greenm3.com and decided to post.

Over the last month there were 37,945 hits from robots

Of the robots here is the breakdown of who and how many.

Browsers

OSs

If I was making a significant amount of money on ad revenue related to impressions I would probably worry about traffic, but I don't.  I took a bit of a break from blogging so much, and have some new ideas to focus on.