Engineer accidentally deletes cloud (2)
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We’ve all done it – that’s what the recycle bin is for right? But deleting a whole “cloud”? You have to hand it to The Register for their headlines alone - Engineer accidentally deletes cloud. To be fair to XCalibre they held their hands up and admitted the mistake which some of the larger cloud computing players can learn from – transparency is going to be crucial to build the reputation of the cloud as ...
Cleversafe’s Storage Internet taking shape (1)
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RAIS (redundant array of independent servers) brings new ideas to “can’t lose” data concerns Cleversafe is applying internet concepts to storage to offer unique value in the SaaS space. It’s pretty cool - check out Byte and Switch’s take. With five partners now and three more in the wings, they seem to be making it work. But is it really necessary? Is the internet broken for storage? We’ll see how they progress as they take ...
A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture (6)
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Looks interesting... Abstract: Today’s data centers may contain tens of thousands of computers with significant aggregate bandwidth requirements. The network architecture typically consists of a tree of routing and switching elements with progressively more specialized and expensive equipment moving up the network hierarchy. Unfortunately, even when deploying the highest-end IP switches/routers, resulting topologies may only support 50% of the aggregate bandwidth available at the edge of the network, while still incurring tremendous cost. Nonuniform bandwidth ...
Microsoft's data centers growing by the truckload (8)
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Filed under: pcs hacks The growing demands of Microsoft's core customers necessitate dramatic alterations in the way Microsoft's data centers are set up. Where before their server racks were replaced one at a time, Microsoft's new solution to server management is to truck in servers in sealed shipping containers and set them up without even taking them out. If a core number of servers start to fail within the shipping container it is removed, returned ...
Application performance management tool selection: Monitoring vs. managing (1)
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Last week, while doing some background research for our application performance management tutorial, I got into a discussion with Julie Craig, a senior analyst at Enterprise Management Associates about the difference between application monitoring and managing. While some tools can do both (i.e., troubleshooting and user experience monitoring), selecting the right tool for the job often depends on who’s using the tool. Application performance metrics provide information about things like response time, quality of experience ...
Russia as datacenter hub? Not so fast (1)
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UK Government paints IT bright green (1)
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Aggressive plan for carbon neutrality by 2012 (photo courtesy The Guardian) The UK government is going beyond talk to action on greening their technology. Tom Watson, the UK Minister of Transformational Government, has written a policy paper with pragmatic steps UK IT will take (and IT shops everywhere are likely to emulate) to materially reduce carbon footprint. From page 5: Extending the lifecycle of all ICT purchases to their natural demise either caused by failure, ...
Energy Savings, Strange Attractors, ... (4)
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... the Intrinsic Cost of State Change, Orbiting Alien Voyeurs, and 200 Square Kilometers of Solar Panels Somewhere in Texas The Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Berkeley National Labs recently published the results of their first Data Center Demonstration Project (pdf). (Disclosure: My colleague Teresa Tung of Accenture R+D labs was the report's principal author). The study follows up on last year's publication of the EPA's report to Congress (pdf) on data center energy consumption. ...
Intel, HP, and Yahoo to build joint cloud-computing research labs (1)
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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsSure, it's all well and cute to think of "cloud computing" as being a magical data-fairy, but storing and processing all your fancy new CalDAV-enabled Google Calendar entries and MobileMe emails costs money, kid -- and that means it's hard for researchers to accurately simulate and build cloud research projects, since they don't have the resources to build large enough data centers. HP, Intel, and Yahoo are teaming up to alleviate that ...
Intel, HP, and Yahoo to build joint cloud-computing research labs (5)
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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsSure, it's all well and cute to think of "cloud computing" as being a magical data-fairy, but storing and processing all your fancy new CalDAV-enabled Google Calendar entries and MobileMe emails costs money, kid -- and that means it's hard for researchers to accurately simulate and build cloud research projects, since they don't have the resources to build large enough data centers. HP, Intel, and Yahoo are teaming up to alleviate that ...
El centro de datos y el baño de las chicas (1)
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From: ---- --------Sent: Monday, May 5, 2008 4:37 PMTo: EveryoneSubject: Server Room AccessHi all. As you all are aware, we have new tenants that have moved into the 2nd floor suites. The access to the server room is now via the women’s bathroom. There will be a sign on the woman’s door that can be changed from OPEN to CLOSED and vice versa. Should you need to enter the server room, please change the sign ...
Overheard: HP container datacenter to be vendor neutral (1)
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Customers don’t want a container that only supports HP equipment. Customers want to be able to mimic their own data centers, so we’ve designed the POD to support any vendor’s hardware. Steve Cummings, as quoted in HP’s POD: The newest containerized data center Another modular data center is on the way — this time from HP. Here’s the press release. Didn’t Google try and patent the idea?
The Calm Before the Storm (1)
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Rakesh Kumar of Gartner published a white paper last fall entitled "U.S. Data Centers: The Calm Before the Storm".In it he says U.S. Data Centers "are facing considerable disruption during the next three or more years" and they are facing it from a few things:Energy Green IT initiativesFloor space demandsNew technology No mention of virtualization unless it's the source of all of the above - impacting energy, trying to be a green IT initiative, trying ...
A look into datacenter of future at HP Labs (13)
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A couple of weeks ago we visited HP Labs where Chandrakant Patel, HP Fellow and Director of HP Labs’ Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory gave us a tour of the datacenter of the future. This datacenter was actually used to render the first two Shrek movies. Patel has worked at HP for 21 years, and is an interesting guy to have a conversation with. What makes it futuristic? Because of the sensor grid and the way ...
A look into datacenter of future at HP Labs (3)
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A couple of weeks ago we visited HP Labs where Chandrakant Patel, HP Fellow and Director of HP Labs’ Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory gave us a tour of the datacenter of the future. This datacenter was actually used to render the first two Shrek movies. Patel has worked at HP for 21 years, and is an interesting guy to have a conversation with. What makes it futuristic? Because of the sensor grid and the way ...
SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug) (4)
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Everyone knows that SmugMug is a heavy user of S3, storing well over half a petabyte of data (non-replicated) there. What you may not know is that EC2 provides a core part of our infrastructure, too. Thanks to Amazon, the software and hardware that processes all of your high-resolution photos and high-definition video is totally scalable without any human intervention. And when I say scalable, I mean both up and down, just the way it ...
Los Centros de Operaciones de Red, al desnudo (1)
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Foto: (cc) Gino Zahnd El corazón de un canal de televisión, de un gran datacenter o de un ISP es, sin duda, el Centro de Operaciones de Red — Network Operations Center, NOC o “nock”, para los amigos. Tan importante como el centro de control de misiones espaciales del Centro Espacial Kennedy, es un lugar para poner ojo cual Gran Hermano a todo lo que ocurre en los dominios informáticos. Algunos de ellos están “vestidos ...
MySQL and the Linux swap problem (1)
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Ever since Peter over at Percona wrote about MySQL and swap, I’ve been meaning to write this post. But after I saw Dathan Pattishall’s post on the subject, I knew I’d better actually do it. There’s a nasty problem with Linux 2.6 even when you have a ton of RAM. No matter what you do, including setting /proc/sys/vm/swappiness = 0, your OS is going to prefer swapping stuff out rather than freeing up system cache. ...
Thoughts on Google App Engine (1)
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First: Very cool. Next: I think it’s interesting that Google has basically taken a sniper scope out and aimed it at a specific cloud computing target. App Engine is only for web applications. No batch computing, no cron jobs, no CPU/disk/network access, etc. I think this is very smart of Google. Rather than attacking Amazon head-on, Google has realized there’s a huge playing field for cloud computing, and are attempting to dominate another portion of ...
Can Ethernet Cabling Become Art? (1)
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Russia apparently could become a datacenter hub. It has hydroelectric power, cold temperatures to keep all those servers cool and a booming economy with lots of engineering talent. But there are enough moving parts to require a little more homework on that Russia as datacenter capital theory. The Green Data Center blog riffs off an Economist [...]Shared by shoM3000 (1)Contribute commentBoing Boing Gadgets (208) permalink
Image: ChrisDag Yup. (More pictures at the link below.) When data center cabling becomes art [Royal.Pingdom.com]Shared by DarkFox (20)Contribute comment
