1. Articles mentioning both James Hamilton and Microsoft Corp

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    1. 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 ...ice 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 overv......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

    2. 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 Services and a former data center architect for Microsoft posted a blog highlighting his reservation for large solar farms at data centers, noting “I just ca... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Data Center Knowledge

    3. 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 Be...... Cade Metz reports: In a recent blog post, Hamilton — who also served as a data center architect at Microsoft — asks whether such solar farms are “really somewhere between a bad idea and pure marketing, where ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   James Hamilton

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

      Explore GigaOM (Jan 4 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

      Feds rip a page out of Amazon’s playbook in data center move ...ing 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......ds, the Census Bureau will save $1.7 million in operating costs this year, said VanRoekel, a former Microsoft executive. In his blog, VanRoekel wrote: While we continue to rack up closures ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   James Hamilton   Microsoft Corp

    5. Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

      Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

      Do BYO data centers make sense anymore? ...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......f — 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 own ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Oracle

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

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

      ... 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...... world all use modular architectures that use some sort of outside cooling mechanism. That includes Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon. The cynic in me believes that the Open Compute movement has as long uphill ba... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Sun Microsystems   James Hamilton

    7. AWS Uses Low-Density Containers To Cut Cooling Costs

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

      AWS Uses Low-Density Containers To Cut Cooling Costs ...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 t......tainers AWS uses containerised units to offer a flexible and rapid means of expanding its resource. Microsoft is another supporter of the box-building approach – and this is no coincidence because Hamilton was... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   James Hamilton

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

      Explore greenm3.com (Apr 29 2011)

      Hot Ticket where EU gets priority, Google’s Data Center Summit 2011 in Zurich May 24 ...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......ng solutions and geo-independent approaches to efficiency Joe Kava, Google; Dileep Bhandarkar, Microsoft; Jochen Berger, PlusServer; Chris Malone, Google 15:50 Panel discussion Mark Monroe, ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Verne Global

    9. Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 22 2011) Networking

      Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard ... 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... The world’s ......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

    10. Yahoo! Compute Coop Design

      Explore Perspectives (Mar 5 2011) Wind , Servers

      Yahoo! Compute Coop Design ...oach temperatures down below 80F using evaporative cooling .  A common approach and the one used by Microsoft in the chillerless datacenter at 95F example is install low efficiency coolers for those rare days ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Yahoo   James Hamilton   Microsoft Corp

    11. Exploring the Limits of Datacenter Temperature

      Explore Perspectives (Feb 27 2011) Servers

      Exploring the Limits of Datacenter Temperature ...reliably well in excess even the newest ASHRAE recommended temp of 81F. For example, back in 2009 Microsoft announced they were operating at least one facility without chillers at 95F server inlet temperat... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   ASHRAE   James Hamilton

    12. Innovation Drives Data Center Change

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 21 2010) Cloud Computing

      Innovation Drives Data Center Change ... 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. ......erfection. “PUE has become mainstream,” said Christian Belady, Director of Hardware Architecture at Microsoft’s eXtreme Computing Group. “This is really the first year that I did not see a single conference wh... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   The Green Grid   James Hamilton

    13. Cloud computing is making IT greener

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

      Cloud computing is making IT greener ...ders to find innovative new ways to reduce energy costs. My colleagues at ZDNET caught wind of Microsoft sponsored research, which determined that companies would save on direct energy costs by outsourcin......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... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Accenture

    14. Google Patent Reveals Data Center Innovations

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

      Google Patent Reveals Data Center Innovations ...ervers, reinforces Google’s focus on its data centers as a competitive advantage in its battle with Microsoft and other rivals for leadership in cloud computing. Google has revealed some of the secret technol......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 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   James Hamilton   Microsoft Corp

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

      Explore greenm3.com (Sep 8 2009)

      eBay’s Data Center Team Cross Pollinates, Recruits Sun’ Dean Nelson to Join ... 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 Olivier Sanche from eBay. Individual companies may think the migration of data... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Sun Microsystems

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