Comments on: NYT’s data center power reports like taking a time machine back to 2006 http://gigaom.com/2012/09/24/nyts-data-center-power-article-reports-from-a-time-machine-back-to-2006/ Thu, 23 May 2013 09:49:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rob Aldrich http://gigaom.com/2012/09/24/nyts-data-center-power-article-reports-from-a-time-machine-back-to-2006/#comment-1024555 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:03:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566044#comment-1024555 Thank you for pointing out the outdated nature of the article and certainly the reactions to it. Shameless plug warning here but I wrote a book on how to improve upon many of these issues and how to scale it across the enterprise. I’m frustrated there is not more attention being applied on how to apply our technology to better manage these issues.

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]]> By: Maurice Walshe http://gigaom.com/2012/09/24/nyts-data-center-power-article-reports-from-a-time-machine-back-to-2006/#comment-1021187 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:13:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566044#comment-1021187 Kelly compared to proper old school telco’s (AT&T) BT all Internet and it companies are like kids playing at providing 100% uptime – ie multiple generations between major outages is the norm in telecoms.

]]> By: Maurice Walshe http://gigaom.com/2012/09/24/nyts-data-center-power-article-reports-from-a-time-machine-back-to-2006/#comment-1021179 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:10:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566044#comment-1021179 If thy get rid of gensets for backup what are they going to do when the power goes out – they will only have a short time on battery to do anything – its not like the old days when exchanges (central ofices) where designed to last up to 48 hours just on battery power.

]]> By: aimee http://gigaom.com/2012/09/24/nyts-data-center-power-article-reports-from-a-time-machine-back-to-2006/#comment-1020530 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:56:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566044#comment-1020530 The company I work with, which is small, AiNET is also focused on power efficiency and an industry leader in it. The CEO, Deepak Jain takes issue with much of what is said in the NY Times article about the cloud and how it won’t help save on costs. At his company, AiNET, he uses new/advanced features to do things in its cloud that you cannot do with the old way of doing things… like tolerating the failure of a machine or run a data center in one location without dropping a single transaction [say for an ecommerce website] by running a mirrored system in another location.

]]> By: Kelly S. http://gigaom.com/2012/09/24/nyts-data-center-power-article-reports-from-a-time-machine-back-to-2006/#comment-1017725 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:44:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566044#comment-1017725 Reblogged this on A Girl in Motion and commented:
There’s been lots of chat around the office and online about the New York Times big Sunday article on data center energy usage. It’s stirred quite the controversy, with fingers pointing and people drawing lines in the sand between IT companies and internet companies (which they claim are more efficient). I see the whole sector as a big energy efficiency opportunity. Here’s a good recap from GigaOm:

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