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

Explore GigaOM (Jan 4 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...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... (Read Full Article)

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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... (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

James Hamilton, VP and distinguished engineer for Amazon Web Services has some hot tips on building or running a c... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook: 'Open hardware' integral to green IT infrastructure

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

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How Cloud computing is changing data center design, cost

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

...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 high cost items in their dat... (Read Full Article)

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Spot Instances, Big Clusters, & the Cloud at Work

Explore Perspectives (Sep 20 2011) Cloud Computing

If you read this blog in the past, you’ll know I view cloud computing as a game changer (Private Clouds are not the Future) and spot instances as a particularly powerful innovation within cloud computing. Over the years, I’ve enumerated many of the advantages of cloud computing over private infrastructure deployments. A particularly powerful cloud computing advantage is driven by noting that when combining a large number of ... (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 Vel... (Read Full Article)

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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 Deploying Containers in Oregon * ... (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 t... (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 ... (Read Full Article)

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

Explore greenm3.com (Jun 1 2011)

...uilding locations on Amazon’s South Lake Union campus to hear from Amazon’s Distinguished Engineer, James Hamilton and network with teams from across the business including Amazon Web Services, Amazon Appstore for ... (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 keynot... (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. ... (Read Full Article)

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2011 European Data Center Summit

Explore Perspectives (May 25 2011)

The European Data Center Summit 2011 was held yesterday at SihlCity CinCenter in Zurich. Google Senior VP Urs Hoelzle kicked off the event talking about why data center efficiency was important both economically and socially.  He went on to point out that the oft quoted number that US data centers represent is 2% of total energy consumption is usually mis-understood. The actual data point is that 2% of the US ... (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... (Read Full Article)

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