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BotchagalupeMarks for July 17th – 05:51
By John | July 18, 2009
These are my links for July 17th from 05:51 to 06:23:
- PUE and Marketing Mischief « Data Center Knowledge – The reporting of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) has been a hot button issue in the industry for some time. PUE has become established as the leading “green data center” metric, but its value has become fuzzy due to a disconnect between companies’ desire to market their energy efficiency and the industry’s historic caution about disclosure. As a result, there have been many public reports of low PUE numbers that have generated skepticism.
- Google’s Chiller-less Data Center « Data Center Knowledge – Google is Insane!
So what happens if the weather gets hot? On those days, Google says it will turn off equipment as needed in Belgium and shift computing load to other data centers. This approach is made possible by the scope of the company’s global network of data centers, which provide the ability to shift an entire data center’s workload to other facilities.
In a March interview, Urs Holzle, Google’s Senior Vice President of Operations, said the company typically uses manual tools to manage data center level outages and downtime. “Teams regularly practice failing out of or routing around specific data centers as part of scheduled maintenance,” he said. “Sometimes we need to build new tools when new classes of problems happen.”
- Open-source Lucene threatens Microsoft, Google enterprise search | The Open Road – CNET News – It must be depressing to be Microsoft these days.
You spend $1.2 billion to acquire enterprise search leader FAST in January 2008 and then another $100 million on semantic search vendor Powerset in July 2008, only to have the excellent Apache's Lucene, an open-source search project, and Solr, an enterprise search server based on Lucene, offer better performance at a 100 percent discount.
- IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager – IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager is a systems resource appliance designed for general business IT organizations. It provides the capability to comprehensively monitor, alert, and report on the performance and availability of the server operating system, databases, and e-mail applications. IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager has built in best practices, domain knowledge, enhanced problem determination tools, and expert advice.
- William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » YACSOE – Yet another cloud standards organization effort. This one is better than the others because it has the best domain name.
- William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs) – Great Post….
- ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: Is Microsoft Starting a Cloud Price War? – Earlier today Microsoft unveiled it's pricing model for its forthcoming Windows Azure cloud services platform. What's interesting about the pricing model is that they seem to be taking direct aim at Amazon Web Services.
- Zero to HADR in 10 minutes on Amazon’s EC2 – DB2 and DBaaS (Database as a Service) – One of the key benefits of Cloud Computing is how fast someone can provision a new system and/or software. But how fast is it really? What if I was an eager new business owner and wanted to get up and running on the cloud today with an enterprise DB.
IBM IS GOING AWS BONKERS
- BMC Software Leverages Amazon Web Services to Simplify Deployment and Management of Cloud Environments – BMC Software – To help customers meet this need, BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) today announced it is leveraging Amazon Web Services to optimize hybrid IT infrastructure deployments via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). BMC’s Business Service Management (BSM) platform delivers a unified approach to IT planning, control, compliance, automation and management for extending existing internal IT infrastructures to cloud environments.
- Amazon Web Services Blog: What Should Adam Do? – There a number of other things going on here. First of all, Adam made a YouTube video that shows how easy it is to set up Lotus Forms Turbo on Amazon EC2. That makes sense, because Adam works for IBM, and I work for AWS. So of course we were on a call about IBM software that runs as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). We are both really excited about what on-demand pricing for IBM’s server lineup offers in terms of new opportunities for both System Integrators and enterprises that want to innovate.
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