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Hamilton: Pace of Innovation is Quickening
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 24 2010)
... X-Box. As the industry debates whether higher temperatures will affect the reliability of servers, James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services says some obvious test cases are being overlooked. “Game consoles are wild, ...... it’s just not the most important thing they do, so the pace of innovation has been lethargic. With Google and Amazon running at incredible scale, the costs have become more interesting.” The growing focus ...
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Google's Data Center Secret, Leadership is top in industry
Explore Article greenm3.com (Jun 1 2010)
... on many issues that are general industry issues." And, as another friend who knows someone in the Google data center group has said the best manager he has had is Urs Hölzle. Which fits in with this post......ing presentations to the executive staff, and his organization looks to for data center leadership? James Hamilton pointed out folks at Netflix and RIM. After the talk I got into a more ...
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Google Patent Reveals Data Center Innovations
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Nov 30 2009)
...g other innovations. But some industry observers concluded that there was more in the pipeline that Google wasn’t discussing. “Both the board and the data center designs shown in detail where not Google’s very newest but all were excellent and well worth seeing,” James Hamilton noted at the time. “I like the approach of showing the previous generation technology to the indust...
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Opening Up Fort Knox: Looking for Transparency to Foster Data Center ...
Explore Article Triple Pundit (Nov 10 2009)
...ty. The Liquid Liability Data centers also require huge amounts of water for their cooling systems. James Hamilton, a data center designer for Amazon.com, spoke to another incredible stat, “a 15-megawatt data cente......This seasonally cold location also offers Yahoo a chance to cool the data center using ambient air. Google is putting its own spin on the data center by using all forms of renewable energy and best practice...
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Google Envisions 10 Million Servers
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Oct 20 2009)
...ineer shows that the company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future. Google’s Jeff Dean was one of the keynote speakers at an ACM workshop on large-scale computing systems, an......ture, which is spread across dozens of data centers around the world. In his presentation (link via James Hamilton), Dean also discussed a new storage and computation system called Spanner, which will seek to autom...
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eBay’s Data Center Team Cross Pollinates, Recruits Sun’ Dean Nelson to Join
Explore Article greenm3.com (Sep 8 2009)
...ing. This seems to be the case at eBay. There is more and more cross pollination in the industry as Google recruited Chris Malone from HP, Microsoft recruited Chris Belady from HP, Amazon recruited James Hamilton from Microsoft, Digital Realty Trust recruited Mike Manos from Microsoft, and Apple recruited Olivi...
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