Archive for October, 2009
Data center selection is an exercise in compromise. Everybody would like to have the best of all worlds, with a highly connected facility offering 24×7 smart hands support, impenetrable security, protection from all natural and man-made disasters, in addition to service level agreements offering 5-Nines power availability at $.03/kW. Not likely we will be able to hit all those desired features in any single facility.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Energy, Internet and Telecom, Virtualization | 4 Comments
Tags: carrier hotel, cloud computing, colocation, data center
The data center industry continues to evolve with mergers, acquisitions, and a healthy crop of emerging companies. New data center products and services are hitting the street, an aggressive debate on the model of selling space vs. power, and alternatives to physical data center space in the cloud are giving us a confusing maze of alternatives to meet our outsourcing needs.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Internet and Telecom, Virtualization | 2 Comments
Tags: cloud computing, data center, ecommerce, interconnection, outsourcing, saas, slecting data center
The FCC finally moved the network neutrality debate forward Thursday, voting to begin developing open Internet regulations. The debate is actually quite simple – should the government regulate, or not regulate the Internet? That discussion revolves around the six principles of network neutrality proposed by the FCC.
Filed under: Government Regulatory, Internet and Telecom | Leave a Comment
Tags: fcc, genachowski, google, h.r. 3458, hunter newby, john mccain, markey, net neutrality, network neutrality, verizon
When the city of Glendale needed to quickly alert residents to lower their water and power use to enable fire fighters to gain access to critical resources, they turned to a local company, Everbridge, to reach citizens with real-time notifications alerting them to the emergency.
Filed under: Internet and Telecom, LA Life | Leave a Comment
Tags: email, emergency notification, everbridge, marc ladin, messaging, mobile phone, twitter
For those of us old-timers who muscled 9-track tapes on 10 ft tall Burroughs B-3500 mainframe computer tape drives, with a total storage capacity of about 5 kilobytes, the idea of sticking a 64 gigabyte SD memory chip into my laptop computer is pretty cosmic. Now we see systems where “a single server can scale linearly, which provides up to 6GB/sec of read bandwidth and more than 500,000 read IOPS.”
Filed under: Energy, Internet and Telecom, environment | 6 Comments
Tags: burroughs b3500, data center, disk system, environment, green, myspace, ssd
California has always prided itself as being a leader in alternative energy innovation. Driving through the hills around Livermore, Palm Springs, or between San Diego and Yuma bring skylines full of wind turbines.
Filed under: Burbank, Energy, LA Life, environment | Leave a Comment
Tags: california, california energy commission, green, renewable energy, solar energy
How Green is Your Data Center?
Data Center “X” just announced a 2 MegaWatt expansion to their facility in Northern California. A major increase in data center capacity, and a source of great joy for the company. And the source of potentially 714 additional tons of carbon introduced each month into the environment.
Filed under: Energy, Internet and Telecom, environment | 2 Comments
Tags: carbon, carbon footprint, data center, green, pue
A 40 year old building with much of the original mechanical and electrical infrastructure. A 40 year old 4000 amp, 480 volt aluminum electrical buss duct, which had been modified and “tapped” often during its life, with much of the work done violating equipment specifications. With the old materials such as buss insulation gradually deteriorating, the duct expanding and contracting over the years, the fact aluminum was used during the initial installation to either save money or test a new technology vision – it all becomes a risk. A risk of buss failure, or at worst a buss failing to the point it results in a massive electrical explosion.
Filed under: Internet and Telecom | Leave a Comment
Tags: carrier hotel, cmms, data center, interconnection, sas70, telecom
An employee enters the meet-me-room at a major carrier hotel in Los Angeles, New York, or Miami. He is a young guy recently graduated from high school, hired to do cable removal for circuit disconnects at minimum wage. Although young, he has a wife and child, and has recently been fighting with in-laws over his ability to support a family. Frustration and anger overcome his emotions, and he turns to the ladder rack jammed with cable and starts hammering at the cables for all he is worth.
Filed under: Government Regulatory, Internet and Telecom | 3 Comments
Tags: 60 hudson, carrier hotel, human factor, one wilshire, security, telecom, telehouse, westin
February 1996. A half-ton bomb planted in a small truck near South Quay Station close to the recently renovated commercial district of Canary Wharf. The bomb detonated around 1900 hours, bringing down a six story building, and severely shaking Canary Wharf Tower and other buildings around the Docklands area. The area, home to much of the telecommunications interconnection capacity connecting the UK and Europe to the rest of the world, is severely damaged and all surrounding activity disrupted.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Government Regulatory, International ICT, Internet and Telecom, LA Life | 2 Comments
Tags: 60 hudson, carrier hotel, docklands, los angeles, nap of the americs, one wilshire, supernode, westin
John Savageau’s Profile
John Savageau is a life long telecom and Internet geek, with a deep interest in the environment and all things green. Whether drilling into the technology of human communications, or describing a blue whale off Catalina Island, Savageau will try to present complex ideas in terms that are easily appreciated and understood.
John Savageau is President of Pacific-Tier Communications based in Honolulu, Hawaii
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