Feds rip a page out of Amazon’s playbook in data center move

Explore GigaOM (Jan 4 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... government agencies. That strategy of going big and selling off extra capacity is right out of the Amazon playbook. Amazon data center guru James Hamilton has long maintained that it makes zero sense for most businesses to build their own data centers an... (Read Full Article)

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Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...-a-data centers, does it make sense for a company to build a new data center on its own anymore? Amazon’s data center guru James Hamilton is pretty clear that he sees no reason for most companies to keep onstructing new data centers from... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon’s James Hamilton on how to build a better data center

Explore GigaOM (Nov 2 2011) Cloud Computing

...nter. Hamilton, something of a data center rock star, spoke at a recent Open Compute Project event. Amazon’s James Hamilton on how to build a better data center By Barb Darrow Nov. 2, 2011, 9:38am PT No Comments * Tweet * *... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook: 'Open hardware' integral to green IT infrastructure

Explore zdnet.com (Oct 30 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Sun Microsystems   James Hamilton

How Cloud computing is changing data center design, cost

Explore Welcome to Techworld (Sep 20 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...r capacity as needed. This is a really big deal. If you've seen people from AWS like Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) or James Hamilton (AWS data center guru), they note that network equipment is one of the high cost items in their dat... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Brocade

Spot Instances, Big Clusters, & the Cloud at Work

Explore Perspectives (Sep 20 2011) Cloud Computing

...y not sell the unused reserve capacity on the spot market? This is exactly what AWS is doing with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. From the Spot Instance detail page:   Spot Instances enabl......ice compares to past Spot Prices, the Spot Price history for the past 90 days is available via the Amazon EC2 API and the AWS Management Console. If your maximum price bid exceeds the current Spot Price, you... (Read Full Article)

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Startups Seeking to Shake Up Networking

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 24 2011) Networking

...ear makes. In June 2010, we began hearing predictions that networking was ready for disruption from James Hamilton of Amazon. “We’re very close to a fundamental change in the networking world,” Hamilton said at Velocity 2010... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Deploying Containers in Oregon

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 20 2011) Construction , Container , Cloud Computing

...ith a few doors and vents. ” That description matches images of a modular design called Perdix that Amazon’s James Hamilton discussed earlier this month at a technology open house. Amazon.com joins major cloud builders Google, Microsoft and Yahoo in embracing factory-built components as a s... (Read Full Article)

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AWS Uses Low-Density Containers To Cut Cooling Costs

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 15 2011) Servers

...opment in Virginia and Oregon, in the US, and in Ireland, for Europe. As a measure of this growth, James Hamilton, vice president and distinguished engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), has said that every day the company brings on stream as much compute power as i......y brings on stream as much compute power as it used in the first five years of its existence as the Amazon.com ... (Read Full Article)

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A Look Inside Amazon’s Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 9 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...But this week the company held a technology open house in Seattle, where AWS Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton discussed the company’s infrastructure. The presentation (PDF) included an image of a modular data ......ular infrastructure. Hamilton also shared a factoid that provides a sense of the rapid growth of Amazon’s cloud platform. “Every day Amazon Web Services adds enough new capacity to support all of Amazon.com’s global ... (Read Full Article)

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James Hamilton Keynotes, Amazon Technology Open House - Jun 7, 2011

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...ants, SDEs, solution architects, administrators and professors of engineering and computer sciences James Hamilton Keynotes, Amazon Technology Open House - Jun 7, 2011 Date Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 8:15PM If you are in Seattle yo... (Read Full Article)

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Google: There’s No Magic Needed For Greener Data Centers

Explore GigaOM (May 25 2011) Cloud Computing

...oogle execs the day before the conference, and have been reading some of the coverage of the talks. James Hamilton, VP Engineer for Amazon Web Services, attended Google’s summit and took notes on the morning keynote by Google Senior VP Ur... (Read Full Article)

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Hot Ticket where EU gets priority, Google’s Data Center Summit 2011 in Zurich May 24

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 29 2011)

...entation case studies Joe Kava, Google; Dean Nelson, eBay 11:20 Panel discussion James Hamilton, Amazon; Robert Coupland, Telecity Group; Brian Waddell, Norman Disney and Young; Mark Eichenberger, UBS ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Verne Global

Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 22 2011) Networking

...lar lines. The biggest thing about the data center is the scale and the detailed need for control.” Amazon Web Services is not among the ONF members. But Amazon researcher James Hamilton has been a prominent voices in calling for a better approach to data center networking. “The networ... (Read Full Article)

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Speeding Up Cloud/Server Applications With Flash Memory

Explore Perspectives (Feb 6 2011)

Last week, Sudipta Sengupta of Microsoft Research dropped by the Amazon Lake Union campus to give a talk on the flash memory work that he and the team at Microsoft Researc... (Read Full Article)

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Innovation Drives Data Center Change

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 21 2010) Cloud Computing

... year, and the pace of technical innovation in high-scale facilities continues to accelerate,” said James Hamilton, Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services. “It’s an exciting time to be part of our industry. ” * 2010: Innovation Drives Data C... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   The Green Grid   James Hamilton

DeepGreen: Swiss Lake-Cooled Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 22 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

James Hamilton of Amazon writes about the interesting new DeepGreen data center project in Switzerland. It’s one of a growin... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud computing is making IT greener

Explore SmartPlanet (Nov 4 2010) Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...more energy efficient. Indeed, it is already happening among all of the industry’s biggest players. James Hamilton, vice president and distinguished engineer on the Amazon Web Services team, outlined the cost of datacenter operations (sans taxes), in a recent blog post. ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Accenture

Amazon's James Hamliton shares Overall Data Center Costs, except taxes

Explore greenm3.com (Oct 10 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...he new 8200 Series 10GbE converged network adapters, 3200 Series 10GbE intelligent Ethernet adapter James Hamilton has a nice post on the Overall Data Center Costs Overall Data Center Costs A couple of years ago, I...... referred to this as fully burdened power. This post supports one of the ideas I threw out there on Amazon's financial discipline. At many companies the rigors of getting approval a data center ... (Read Full Article)

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Netflix Migration to the Cloud

Explore Perspectives (Oct 10 2010) Cloud Computing

...we chose a more radical one. We decided to leverage one of the leading IAAS offerings at the time, Amazon Web Services. With multiple, large data centers already in operation and multiple levels of redund... (Read Full Article)

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Scaling AWS Relational Database Service

Explore Perspectives (Oct 9 2010)

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Hamilton: Pace of Innovation is Quickening

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 24 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

... 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, multi-core... (Read Full Article)

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What The Cloud Really Does

Explore Forbes.com (Jun 4 2010) Cloud Computing

...ild to its highest load (plus a safety margin) then run less efficiently the rest of the time. What James Hamilton of Amazon calls "non-correlated peaks" can be difficult to generate within a single enterprise or function. W... (Read Full Article)

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Inter-Datacenter Replication & Geo-Redundancy

Explore Perspectives (May 10 2010) Cloud Computing

...cloud computing can help drive down costs and improve availability.  Cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, run 10s of data centers. You can leverage the AWS scale economics to allow even ver... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   James Hamilton