1. Articles mentioning both James Hamilton and Facebook

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    1. Apple’s NC data center: transparency and the pressure to go green

      Explore GigaOM (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell

      Apple’s NC data center: transparency and the pressure to go green ... about 45 coal power plants. Apple presumably made the decision to build in North Carolina, just as Facebook has gone to Oregon, because of cheap power. But in the last few years so much attention has focused......e “Apple premium” to a whole new level.’ In fairness to Cook, Amazon’s data center efficiency guru James Hamilton himself estimated that the 500,000 square foot Apple facility would draw 78 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    2. Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

      Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

      Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace ...ned in the report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranke......is expected to yield 3.2 Megawatts, according to a recent analysis by Amazon Web Services engineer, James Hamilton, but Apple estimates that fuel cell installations will push green power supply to the facility up t... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    3. eBay covers Utah data center roof with solar panels

      Explore GigaOM (Apr 11 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

      eBay covers Utah data center roof with solar panels ...olar panel project at its small data center in Denver. But yes, as Amazon’s web infrastructure guru James Hamilton pointed out recently, these types of solar panel installations at data centers are usually small en......both a financial investment, and as a way to explore clean power development near its data centers. Facebook has a lot smaller solar panel project, at 100 kW, at its 25 MW data center ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Data Center Knowledge   James Hamilton

    4. Another Perspective on Solar at Data Centers

      Explore Renewable Energy World (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Solar

      Another Perspective on Solar at Data Centers ...impact of energy-intensive data centers or is it simply an expensive marketing tool? Two weeks ago, James Hamilton of Amazon Web Servi In February, word leaked that Apple will install a 20 megawatt solar farm—the l......nly a small fraction of the data center’s energy use.   For instance, the 100 kW solar array at the Facebook Prineville Oregon Facility will provide for only 0.4% of the facility ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Data Center Knowledge

    5. Amazon Queries Facebook And Apple’s Solar Plans

      Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 27 2012) Construction , Solar

      Amazon Queries Facebook And Apple’s Solar Plans ...ions in a blog post and dismissed their contribution to the data centres they serve. Amazon Queries Facebook And Apple’s Solar Plans Solar power takes too much space, says Amazon’s James Hamilton On March 27, 2012 by Peter Judge 0 E-commerce and web company Amazon has sparked a controversy by s... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   James Hamilton   Facebook

    6. Amazon IT Guru Questions Facebook, Apple Solar Arrays

      Explore environmentalleader.com (Mar 26 2012) Construction , Solar

      Amazon IT Guru Questions Facebook, Apple Solar Arrays ...ed into question the environmental logic behind large solar farms recently installed or proposed by Facebook and Apple. In a recent blog post, James Hamilton writes that he couldn’t ”make the math work” for the completed solar array at Facebook’s Prinevill, Ore., facility or the proposed system at Apple’s iDataCenter in Maiden, N.C., and ques... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   James Hamilton   Facebook

    7. Solar 'Storm' Hits Data Centers by Peter Judge

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 25 2012)

      Solar 'Storm' Hits Data Centers by Peter Judge ... on it heavily to run data centers. Specifically, it was Amazon vice president and data center guru James Hamilton, who said: “I love solar power, but in reflecting carefully on a couple of high profile data center......blog, Hamilton looked at the figures behind recent solar power installations at rival data centers. Facebook’s 25MW data center at Prineville Oregon, has a 100kW solar array. Anyone giving it publicity (inclu... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    8. Not Easy Being Green: Are Solar Farms 'Pure Marketing'?

      Explore Wired News (Mar 21 2012) Construction , Solar

      Not Easy Being Green: Are Solar Farms 'Pure Marketing'? ...w green the cloud was , or whether green claims were more “greenwashing” than reality. Now Amazon’s James Hamilton is questioning Apple and Facebook’s seemingly easy-being-green data center solar farms. Not Easy Being Green: Are Solar Farms ‘Pure M... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   James Hamilton

    9. Amazon’s cloud rockstar not a fan of solar-powered data centers

      Explore GigaOM (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar

      Amazon’s cloud rockstar not a fan of solar-powered data centers Amazon's web infrastructure rockstar James Hamilton writes on his blog that he's not convinced that solar power is a good fit for powering data centers......at he's not convinced that solar power is a good fit for powering data centers. Using examples from Facebook and Apple he lays out a compelling arguement, but he's missing a few points. Amazon’s cloud rocksta... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Google

    10. Is Solar Power for Data Centers a Bad Idea?

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Solar

      Is Solar Power for Data Centers a Bad Idea? ...several years, arrays of photovoltaic solar panels have been announced for data centers from Apple, Facebook, Cisco and Emerson Network Power. But do these solar arrays make sense, given the current economics......current economics of solar energy and the volume of power required to support a modern data center? James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services, who often presents on data center economics at industry conferences, challe... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    11. I Love Solar Power But...

      Explore Perspectives (Mar 18 2012) Construction , Solar

      I Love Solar Power But... ...nted to look at isApple’s facility at Maiden, North Carolina, often referred as iDataCenter.  Inthe Facebook example discussed above, the solar array was so small as to have nearlyno impact on the composition... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Data Center Knowledge

    12. Vantage plants energy-efficient data center in the Valley

      Explore GigaOM (Feb 15 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

      Vantage plants energy-efficient data center in the Valley ...se the building has to support multiple clients, it is more customized than the massive Amazon or Facebook data centers that are held up as paragons of energy efficiency. “We can’t have a one-size-fits all ...... to know they don’t have to run their servers in stone-cold rooms. As Amazon’s data center expert James Hamilton has pointed out, many companies run their data centers much colder than they ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Data Center Knowledge

    13. Facebook: 'Open hardware' integral to green IT infrastructure

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

      ...roviders or those building cloud infrastructure would do well to embrace some of this ...and more » Facebook: 'Open hardware' integral to green IT infrastructure By Heather Clancy | October 30, 2011, 3:08pm P...... just the information technology housed within. In his presentation during the Open Compute Summit, James Hamilton, vice president and distinguished engineer with Amazon Web Services, pointed out that there has bee... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Sun Microsystems   James Hamilton

    14. How Cloud computing is changing data center design, cost

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

      How Cloud computing is changing data center design, cost ...long rectangles with a long side facing the prevailing wind side, thereby allowing natural cooling. Facebook, in its open compute design, places air intakes and outputs on the second floor so that cool air ca......eeded. 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 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Brocade

    15. Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 22 2011) Networking

      Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard ...ill accelerate innovation and make it easier to manage their far-flung networks. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo have teamed with telecom giants Verizon and Deutsche Telekom to... The world’s largest da......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)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Yahoo

    16. Netflix Migration to the Cloud

      Explore Perspectives (Oct 10 2010) Cloud Computing

      Netflix Migration to the Cloud ...about how high scale systems work. Some past postings: FriendFeed use of MySQL Facebook Cassandra Architecture and Design Wikipedia Architecture MySpace Architecture ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Oracle   James Hamilton

    17. Scaling AWS Relational Database Service

      Explore Perspectives (Oct 9 2010)

      ...ser). Cassandra is another common RDBMS alternative in heavy use by many high-scale sites including Facebook where it was originally conceived. Cassandra is also frequently run on AWS with the Cassandra Wiki ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   James Hamilton   Facebook

    18. Can Networking Be Made Cool Again?

      Explore GigaOM (Apr 24 2010) Networking

      Can Networking Be Made Cool Again? ...es to those based on Map Reduce, nor will they work for collaborative filtering, putting together a Facebook page or renting CPU cycles by the hour. The data center has/will emerge as a distinct category of n......ys of thinking about building networks. Commoditizing forwarding — Much has already been written by James Hamilton of Amazon and others about the commoditization of networking and the router vs. mainframe compari... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   James Hamilton

    19. Stanford Clean Slate CTO Summit

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

      Stanford Clean Slate CTO Summit ... Prabhakar, Stanford 4:45: Panel: Challenges of Future Data Center Networking--Panelists, James Hamilton, Stephen Stuart, Andrew Lambeth (VMWare), Marc Kwiatkowski (Facebook)   I presented Networks are in my Way. My basic premise is that networks are ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   James Hamilton   Facebook

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