Data Center spying with Drones in NC is about to illegal, can you shoot a spy drone?

There have been helicopter views of Apple data centers in Maiden NC that have gone viral.  Facebook and Google are also in NC.  A helicopter can only get so close before there are restrictions and safety issues.  If you were thinking you could take a drone with you and throw it up over the fence to spy on a data center, don’t be surprised if it gets shot down by a drone hunter.

Gigaom’s Barb Darrow posts on the new NC legislation on drones being illegal for hunting or fishing.

Going huntin’ or fishin’ in North Carolina? Leave your drone at home

by Barb Darrow

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photo: Nicolas Halftermeyer

SUMMARY:

North Carolina legislators are poised to approve a law that restricts the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to help hunters and fishermen find their prey.

If North Carolinians want to bag some game they’ll have to do so the old fashioned way, without help from an unmanned aerial vehicle (a.k.a., a drone) if new legislation passes in the state legislature. The state’s lower house recently unanimously passeda bill outlawing the use of drones for hunting and fishing and the state Senate is about to vote on it.

What I am curious is whether it is legal to shoot a drone since they are illegal for hunting or fishing?  How do you document an infraction?

Disclosure: I do freelance for gigaom research and know barb darrow.

Google, Microsoft and others form Consortium for 25/50 Gbps Ethernet Switches in Data Centers

LightReading reports on Google, Microsoft and others forming a consortium for 25/50 Gbit/s switches to increase speed and reduce cost of data center networking.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – A consortium of companies including Arista Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Google Inc., Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., and Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of a specification optimized to allow data center networks to run over a 25 or 50 Gigabit per second (Gbit/s) Ethernet link protocol. This new specification will enable the cost-efficient scaling of network bandwidth delivered to server and storage endpoints in next-generation cloud infrastructure, where workloads are expected to surpass the capacity of 10 or 40 Gbps Ethernet links deployed today.

The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium was formed by the above leading cloud networking technology providers for the purpose of supporting an industry-standard, interoperable Ethernet specification that boosts the performance and slashes the interconnect cost per Gbps between the server Network Interface Controller (NIC) and Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch.

ZDnet says the consortium is a response to stalls in the IEEE process.

The consortium was formed after plans to create official Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) specifications stalled at a meeting last March, due to a perceived lack of support.

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The tech giants say that in essence, specifications published by the consortium "maximizes the radix and bandwidth flexibility of the data center network while leveraging many of the same fundamental technologies and behaviors already defined by the IEEE 802.3 standard."

Greenpeace, EFF and 10th amendment center protest at NSA data center on surveillance practices

Fox13 Salt Lake City reports on Greenpeace, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Tenth Amendment Center protesting the NSA Data Center in Utah.

VIDEO: Blimp flies over NSA’s Utah Data Center to protest ‘illegal mass surveillance program’

POSTED 8:59 AM, JUNE 27, 2014, BY ASHTON EDWARDS AND BEN WINSLOW, UPDATED AT 08:40AM, JUNE 28, 2014

BLUFFDALE, Utah — A group of activists from a coalition of environmental, privacy and anti-spying organizations flew a blimp over the NSA’s massive Utah Data Center in protest over allegations of domestic spying.

“It’s not often that you can get — literally — over the NSA,” Parker Higgins, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told FOX 13 on Friday.

 

Taking A Break from Blogging, Back June 30, 2014

My computer screen died and it is in for repair.  I could switch over to another computer to write or I could take a break.  Had a meeting with me, myself, and I and we all agreed taking a break is a good idea.

I’ll hopefully be back blogging on Monday June 30, 2014.  My computer should be returned by June 28, 2014 and I may have to re image the system.

Thanks for following this blog.

-Dave Ohara

Is the Cloud disrupting the Data Center Ecosystem? Can you see the changes

This past two months I have done the whirlwind of being in the same cities as Data Center World, Uptime Symposium, 7x24 Exchange, Data Center Dynamics and Gigaom Structure.  If you go back 5 years ago only one of these conferences was about the Cloud - Gigaom Structure.  Werner Vogel has been presenting since 2006. Back in 2008 Microsoft presented its Container Data Center solution at Gigaom Structure.

Microsoft Presentation on Containers at GigaOM's Structure 08 - a PUE of 1.3!

THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008 AT 2:47AM

PCWorld reports on a Container presentation by Microsoft's Daniel Costello, Director of data center research at GigaOm's Structure 08.

"The idea of modular, portable data centers is key to the industry's future," said Daniel Costello, Microsoft director of data center research, in a presentation at GigaOM's Structure 08 conference in San Francisco. "That's why I'm here to talk about data centers, not just for Microsoft but for our customers as well."

No data center conference can present without discussing the cloud.

Part of the Cloud for so many follows Netflix’s belief in having no data centers.

“Netflix is shutting down its last data center this year,” said Cockcroft. The company’s services are now all hosted in the public cloud, but not just in AWS. Netflix is also using Google Compute Engine.

How do you add data center content on design, build, and operate when a common word of advice for Cloud users is “friends don’t let friends build data centers"

The Cloud is a disruptive force for the data center media and conference industry.  Publications who used to discuss only data centers now intermix cloud technologies.

I have opinions on who will survive and who will not.  The Green Data Center conference tried to make it.  Seems like they would have better luck if they had launched the Cloud Data Center conference.

Gigaom Structure 2014 was a record attendance of 1200 and sold out with standing room only.  7x24 Exchange 2014 Spring hit their numbers.  Most others don’t share their attendance.