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Big Data / Data Center: Big Data
causing data center crunch
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http://www.cio.com/article/698033/Explosio
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Obviously, if you try to put 10 pounds of
sand in a five pound bag, you will get
sand over all yourself. The same thing is
happening to many data centers whose
designers failed to anticipate the
dramatic growth of Big Data (this is the
development that IBM has been talking
about for the past few years):
Global business has been caught offguard by the recent explosion in data
volumes and is trying to cope with
short-term fixes such as buying data
center capacity, research by Oracle has
found. Polling 950 senior IT personnel
across the globe, Oracle also found that
the number of businesses looking to
build new data centers within the next
two years has risen from 27 percent to
38 percent.
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FEBRUARY 2012
WNY Touts New Shovel Ready Technology Park,
Ideal for Data Centers
This week, a new high-tech industrial park sited in the Town of Cambria
received New York state's new "Shovel Ready Certification" from
Empire State Development Corp. enabling new companies to break
ground at the site with reduced development delays and construction
costs, resulting in time and money savings. This advance work creates
a site where construction can begin rapidly, once a prospective
business decides to develop a facility in that location. The parcel is
located along Lockport Road, west of Campbell Boulevard (state route
270) and east of Comstock Road.
Read more about Cambria Technology Park.
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Yahoo! chose Lockport, NY in the Buffalo Niagara region for its
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the region is conducive to data centers, the unique award winning
aspects of the facility and access to hydropower.
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Unbelievably Cheap Amazon Cloud Prices Get
Even Cheaper
Julie Bort|21 hours ago|1,789|
When was the last time your utility company
told you they were reducing fees?
For gazillions of startups and enterprises using
Amazon's cloud for storage, that's the news they
got today.
As of February 1, Amazon is reducing fees by
12-13%.
Usually, a company will reduce prices to attract
more business, but that's not the case here.
In 2011, Amazon nearly tripled the number of
data things stored in S3.
At the end 2011, S3 housed 762 billion
(762,000,000,000) objects and was processing
over 500,000 requests per second for these
objects during busy times.
At the old rates, the S3 service was already dirt
cheap. For instance, computer scientist David
Gewirtz writes on ZDnet that he is only billed
11 cents a month. 11 cents! And next month,
his bill will go down.
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Cisco: Cloud Will Soon Handle Most Data
Center Workloads
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There has been no shortage of predictions that
the cloud will eventually lead to the demise, or
diminished role, of corporate data centers.
However, new industry data suggests that
cloud computing will soon make data centers
even busier places than ever.
Cisco just released its first Global Cloud Index,
and it has a clear message: it doesn’t matter if
you’re using applications from your own data
center or from somewhere else, they will be
delivered from the cloud. Organization’s data
centers will be moving to the cloud in a big way.
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• Blade Server Technology with 2 Processors With 8 Cores and up to 8
VMS Per Core (128 Compute Instances) in a 1 & ¾ in Rack Space
requiring substantially new and different cooling designs
• Social Networks and Mobile Applications requiring unprecedented
amounts of data storage and processing
• Cloud Computing Centers using the new technologies and network
improvements are being built by the dozens
• Substantial bandwidth increases & substantially reduced Latency on
Fiber Networks – at Lower $$ – it can be anywhere
• It Doesn’t Need to be Within Eyesight of Corp HQ Anymore
• Threat Avoidance/Survival – Get Away From Larger “Target” Areas –
Large Cities
• Reduced Power, Ambient Air Cooling, “Green”
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State Avg is in 2nd Tier
But
Much of State is Lower
http://www.itbusinessedge.com.
Wyoming 32% < Nat Avg
10MW = $1,727,472/yr less
25MW = $4,318,680/yr less
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Wyoming Fiber
Routes
2 Long Haul Routes
1 Regional Route
2 North West
Long Haul Routes
11 routes parallel
I-80 at points
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Data Storage
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Power
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1kw = 1,000 watts the power for 10 – 100 watt light bulbs
1MW = 1,000 kw or 1,000,000 watts the power for 10,000 – 100 watt light
bulbs
PUE is Power Utilization Efficiency – old data centers were 1.6 to 2.0 at 2.0
a data center used double the energy that the computing systems drew.
Today the target is =< 1.2.
115, 138, 230 and 345kVA is a power line rating. 345kVA line would equal
345,000 volt amps – could of transmitting 1,000MW + of power
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Erasing the Boundaries
By DAVID STREITFELD; Nick Bilton and Nicole Perlroth contributed reporting from San Francisco, and Jenna Wortham from New York.
The New York Times 13 February 2012
SAN FRANCISCO -- Technology used to be so simple.
In the old days, you listened to music on your iPod while exercising. During an idle moment at the office you might use Google on your
Microsoft Windows PC to search for the latest celebrity implosion. Maybe you would post an update on Facebook. After dinner, you could
watch a DVD from Netflix or sink into a new page-turner that had arrived that day from Amazon.
That vision, where every company and every device had its separate role, is so 2011.
The biggest tech companies are no longer content simply to enhance part of your day. … The new strategy is to build a device, sell it to
consumers and then sell them the content to play on it.
Last week's news that Google is preparing its first Google-branded home entertainment device -- a system for streaming music in the house -might seem far afield for an Internet search and advertising company, but fits solidly into an industry wide goal in which each tech company
would like to be all things to all people all day long.
''It's not about brands or devices or platforms anymore,'' said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Gartner. ''It's about the ecosystem. The idea is
to get consumers tied into that ecosystem as tightly as possible so they and their content are locked into one system.''
So Facebook, which has half of its users accessing it from mobile devices … Apple, once just a computer maker, already gets most of its profit
from mobile devices and is eyeing televisions, which would play content from iTunes.
Amazon created the Kindle Fire tablet, and there is intense speculation it is developing a Kindle Phone -- …
Microsoft, which has tightened its relationship with Nokia to again be a major player in phone software, has placed its Xbox in millions of living
rooms as a home entertainment portal.
Reports of the new Google device come just as the search giant's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility is expected to close, …
As an example of how Google will use hardware to push software, Mr. McDevitt, a consultant with CSMG/TMNG, cited Google Wallet, a
cellphone payment system released last fall. Google put a lot of work into this software. It had 150,000 retailers deploy near-field
communications readers so all a customer would have to do to buy a pack of Juicy Fruit was wave a smartphone. It had Citigroup encourage its
MasterCard holders to use Google Wallet as an extension of their credit cards.
''The next new Motorola phone will undoubtedly come preinstalled with the Google Wallet near-field communications chip,'' Mr. McDevitt
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concluded in a report last fall. ''And where Motorola leads, the other handset manufacturers using Android are likely to follow.''