Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

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

... 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 ranked high in Greenpeace’s overview, but more recent investments in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kon......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Power Management of Online Data-Intensive Services

Explore Perspectives (Mar 29 2012) Servers

I met Google’s Wolf-Dietrich Weber at the 2009 CIDR conference where he presented what is still one of my favori... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   James Hamilton

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 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......r building their own solar farms (like Apple is doing), or investing in clean power projects (like Google does). What Hamilton doesn’t factor into his analysis, is a couple things: * 1). Building or buying... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Google

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of March 17th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 17 2012) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...t + + + A slide of a data center from a presentation at the Amazon Technology Open House. (Source: James Hamilton) For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center K......ble energy more accessible? Joe Kava believes that it can. Kava, who heads that data center team at Google, said Tuesday that the company’s power purchasing agreements will add more than 200 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Digital Realty

Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...ake 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......cal stuff — to the big cloud operators. That roster includes the aforementioned players as well as Google, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and others that are building out more of their ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Oracle

Amazon Deploying Containers in Oregon

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

... 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 strategy to reduce the cost and dep... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   James Hamilton

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

Explore GigaOM (May 25 2011) Cloud Computing

... edge tech. I wasn’t able to attend the event (I’ll get to Zurich some day!), but I interviewed two Google 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 Urs Hoelzle. According to Hamilton’s notes, Hoelzle ... (Read Full Article)

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Urs Hoelzle's keynote at Google European Data Center Summit 2011

Explore greenm3.com (May 25 2011)

James Hamilton has posted his notes on Urs Hoelzle's keynote speech at Google's European Data Center Summit 2011.  2011 European Data Center Summit The European Data... (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)

...eeret Singh, The Green Grid 10:00 Best practice implementation 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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Verne Global

Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 22 2011) Networking

..., a move they say will 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... T......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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Yahoo

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 da......remember that servers still dominate the overall capital cost,” he wrote. Perhaps recognizing this, Google has invested heavily in wind power. Last month it announced that it would be funding the developme... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Accenture

Overall Data Center Costs

Explore Perspectives (Sep 18 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

... those used here. For example, in this model we’re using a Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) of 1.45 but Google, for example, reports PUE across the fleet of under 1.2: Data Center Efficiency Measurements. Again... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   James Hamilton

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, ...... 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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   James Hamilton

Google's Data Center Secret, Leadership is top in industry

Explore 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Google Patent Reveals Data Center Innovations

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

...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... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore 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......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Google Envisions 10 Million Servers

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

...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 ... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore 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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Sun Microsystems