Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

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

... 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 Greenpe......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)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

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......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 own data center capacity ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Oracle

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......50 Panel discussion Mark Monroe, The Green Grid; Andre Oppermann, DeepGreen; Bruno Michel, IBM Research Lab; Jeff Monroe, Verne Global 17:00 Reception I’ll be at the event and most ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Verne Global

Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 22 2011) Networking

...ocade, Juniper Networks, HP, Broadcom, Ciena, Riverbed Technology, Force10, Citrix, Dell, Ericsson, IBM, Marvell, NEC, Netgear, NTT and VMware. “With broad industry support from technology leaders and ne......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

Can Networking Be Made Cool Again?

Explore GigaOM (Apr 24 2010) Networking

... landscape with the introduction of its Unified Communications System. By declaring open war on HP, IBM, and Dell, Cisco has made networking relevant again for the major OEMs who need a networking story ......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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   James Hamilton

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

Explore Perspectives (Nov 22 2009) Supercomputer

...ly, Red Sky brings the water to the server racks using Sun Cooling Door Systems (similar to the IBM iDataPlex Rear Door Cooling system).   The Sun Cooling Door System is a nice de... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Norway   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

PUE and Total Power Usage Efficiency (tPUE)

Explore Perspectives (Jun 14 2009) Servers

...re.  The IT load normally includes the server Power Supply Unit (PSU) but in many designs such as IBM iDataPlex the individual PSUs are moved out of the server and placed at the rack level. Again, thi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   The Green Grid   James Hamilton