A word view of Satya Nadella's e-mail to employees

A friend sent me the WSJ analysis of what is between the lines in Satya Nadella’s email to employees.

Commentary: Decrypting Satya Nadella’s CEO Welcome Letter

I decided to run a different analysis. What is the word count of the e-mail.  I have it below.  The one area that jumped out was the following grouping of words that came up 4 times.

4 great
4 forward
4 devices
4 cloud
4 change
4 better
4 believe

Here is the complete word list.  Make your own conclusions from staring at word count. :-)  i’ll stop after 3 words as the list gets too long.

 

53 and
39 to
38 the
34 we
30 i
23 of
18 that
18 in
18 do
17 it
17 a
15 our
13 world
13 this
12 for
11 will
11 microsoft
11 is
10 more
10 have
9 us
9 things
9 are
8 what
8 new
8 as
7 work
7 with
7 on
7 me
7 can
6 here
6 from
6 company
6 am
5 need
5 my
5 make
5 every
5 all
4 you
4 who
4 very
4 today
4 people
4 not
4 great
4 forward
4 devices
4 cloud
4 change
4 better
4 believe
4 an
3 why
3 was
3 ve
3 value
3 technology
3 software
3 satya
3 s
3 re
3 opportunity
3 only
3 one
3 next
3 must
3 mobile
3 many
3 learning
3 lead
3 know
3 innovation
3 has
3 first
3 family
3 empowers
3 each
3 done
3 core
3 ceo
3 by
3 but
3 bill
3 best
3 been
3 at
3 about

Monitoring a fix to the boiler with a remote camera

I have radiant floor heat from a gas boiler in our beach house.  It is 10 years old and starting to have intermittent problems.  Troubleshooting the right part - the air pressure switch, an adjustment, a leaking hose, the blower fan, the controller has taken me weeks to figure out what the problem is.  I finally got the problem solved.  I think, but need to keep an on the operations.  Easiest thing to do is to move a remote camera to watch the read out.

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141 degrees and working.  I have my fingers crossed that it is fixed.  At least it is so much easier to look at browser page and see it.  I could turn on the microphone if I wanted to hear the boiler, but the video is good enough.

Everyone has cameras in a data center for security.  How many of you use a remote camera to watch an area for operations?

Google's Urs Hölzle shares its cost for data center space - 15 years ago (Humor)

So many people are curious what Google pays for data center power and network.  Google’s Urs Hoelzle shares its data center cost.  It’s first bill for its data center 15 years ago.  :-)

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Urs Hölzle

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15 years ago (on Feb 1st, 1999) I first set foot in a Google datacenter. Well, not really -- in the Google cage in the Exodus datacenter in Santa Clara.  Larry had led me there for a tour (I wasn't an employee yet) and it was my first time in any datacenter.  And you couldn't really "set foot" in the first Google cage because it was tiny (7'x4', 2.5 sqm) and filled with about 30 PCs on shelves.  a1 through a24 were the main servers to build and serve the index and c1 through c4 were the crawl machines.

Maybe 15 years from Urs will share what Google’s bills look like now. Can you imagine what Google’s data center infrastructure will look like 15 years from now?

Who takes over Satya Nadella's old job of Cloud Executive? For now Scott Guthrie

One of the questions I have bounced around with friends is who will take over Satya’s old job which included being the Cloud Executive.

Looks like the answer for now is Scott Guthrie.

Microsoft appoints Scott Guthrie new Cloud & Enterprise chief

Summary: ScottGu, the red-shirted Azure development lead, is the new head of Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise division.

Mary Jo Foley

By  for All About Microsoft |February 5, 2014 -- 01:08 GMT (17:08 PST)

 
 

Who will succeed Satya Nadella as Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise chief?

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The answer to this question -- to which I was asked numerous times today following the announcement that Microsoft's new CEO will be Satya Nadella, who was head of Cloud & Enterprise -- is Scott Guthrie.

Yes. The red-shirted ScottGu is, for now, the "interim" Cloud & Enterprise Executive Vice President at Microsoft. I hear he's likely to be made the permanent one, as well, though no one is saying that in any official capacity for now.

What is Open Compute Summit? A gathering of the leaders in scale-out data center industry

I’ve gone to all the Open Compute Summits (five in all) and I know many of the people in the organization.  It can be hard to describe what the open compute summit is given I have seen it grow. 

Here is a Forbes article on the Open Compute Summit and Intel’s Software defined infrastructure.  The part that jumped out was the description of the event.

I attended the Open Compute Summit last week in San Jose, where industry leaders in the scale-out datacenter industry gathered to discuss and attempt to get some kind of alignment on future architectures and building blocks. By architecture, I mean the building blocks, the interconnects and the rules by which future football field size datacenters will be designed and operate.

The Open Compute Summit continues to grow in attendance.  Last one had 1,500, this one had 2,400.  It is free to attendees and the presentations are much better than many other data center events.

The Open Compute Summit is not about the low level infrastructure of power and cooling.  The event is more about the stuff you put in a data center for scale-out infrastructure. 

We’ll see if the next event hits 3,000, but even if they hit only 2,500 again, the event will be significant.