James Hamilton

1. Mentioned In 11 Articles

2. Google Patent Reveals Data Center Innovations

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Nov 30 2009) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

   ...signs 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... (Read Full Article)
   

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3. Is Sandia National Lab's Red Sky Really Able to Deliver a PUE of 1.035?

   Explore Article Perspectives (Nov 22 2009) Supercomputer

   Sometime back I whined that Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) is a seriously abused term: PUE and Total Power Usage Efficiency.  But I continue to use it because it gives us a rough way to compare the efficiency of different data centers.  It’s a simple metric that takes the total power delivered to a facility (total power) and divides it by the amount of power delivered to the servers (critical power ... (Read Full Article)
   

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4. Opening Up Fort Knox: Looking for Transparency to Foster Data Center ...

   Explore Article Triple Pundit (Nov 10 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

   ...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... (Read Full Article)
   

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5. Stanford Clean Slate CTO Summit

   Explore Article Perspectives (Oct 24 2009) Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

   ...a center networking -- Stephen Stuart, Google 2:30: Data center networks are in my way -- James Hamilton, Amazon 3:00: Virtualization and Data Center Networking -- Simon Crosby, Citrix ... (Read Full Article)
   

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6. Google Envisions 10 Million Servers

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Oct 20 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

   ...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... (Read Full Article)
   

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7. Stop Cooling the Data Center

   Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Oct 15 2009) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

   ...ee that data center temperatures are too low. “Running at 90F would save the world a lot of money,” James Hamilton said at the Google Data Center Summit in April of this year. “But no one is doing it because they a... (Read Full Article)
   

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8. eBay’s Data Center Team Cross Pollinates, Recruits Sun’ Dean Nelson to Join

   Explore Article greenm3.com (Sep 8 2009)

   ...s 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... (Read Full Article)
   

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9. Successfully Challenging the Server Tax

   Explore Article Perspectives (Sep 3 2009) Servers , Storage

   The server tax is what I call the mark-up applied to servers, enterprise storage, and high scale networking gear.  Client equipment is sold in much higher volumes with more competition and, as a consequence, is priced far more competitively. Server gear, even when using many of the same components as client systems, comes at a significantly higher price. Volumes are lower, competition is less, and there are often many lock-in ... (Read Full Article)
   

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10. Pictures from the Fisher Plaza Data Center Fire

    Explore Article Perspectives (Jul 10 2009) Cloud Computing

    There have been many reports of the Fisher Plaza data center fire. An early one was the Data Center Knowledge article: Major Outage at Seattle Data Center. Data center fires aren’t as rare as any of us would like but this one is a bit unusual in that fires normally happen in the electrical equipment or switchgear whereas this one appears to have been a bus duct fire. The bus ... (Read Full Article)
    

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11. ISCA 2009 Keynote II: Internet-Scale Service Infrastructure Efficiency

    Explore Article Perspectives (Jun 24 2009) Cloud Computing

    ...ques including graceful degradation mode, power yield management, and resource consumption shaping. James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services 1200, 12^th Ave. (Read Full Article)
    

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12. PUE and Total Power Usage Efficiency (tPUE)

    Explore Article Perspectives (Jun 14 2009) Servers

    I like Power Usage Effectiveness as a course measure of infrastructure efficiency. Its gives us a way of speaking about the efficiency of the data center power distribution  and mechanical equipment without having to qualify the discussion on the basis of server and storage used or utilization levels, or other issues not directly related to data center design. But, there are clear problems with the PUE metric. Any single metric ... (Read Full Article)
    

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