Data Center Map. Energy Savings Another Boost for Cloud Computing. Cloud computing saves energy. How do we know this? Greenspace, a green building supplier based in Illinois, completed a study of enterprises using NetSuite's (N) ERP and CRM applications (Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management). NetSuite delivered these popular enterprise applications through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform wherein the software stays on NetSuite’s servers and enterprise customers access the applications via a network connection - i.e. cloud computing.
Customers in the Greenspace study were able to reduce overall server room electricity consumption by more than 90%, representing a decrease in cost of more than $10,300 per customer per year. Since server rooms and data centers account for as much as a third of an organization’s information technology budget, the size of the savings has enterprise and even government agencies taking notice. Earlier this week the U.S. Impressed by this author? Follow Debra Fiakas (326 followers) New!
Data Center Market ebook download in PDF format page 3. Spectrum: Tech Titans Building Boom. The serene countryside around the Columbia River in the northwestern United States has emerged as a major, and perhaps unexpected, battleground among Internet powerhouses. That’s where Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo have built some of the world’s largest and most advanced computer facilities: colossal warehouses packed with tens of thousands of servers that will propel the next generation of Internet applications.
Call it the data center arms race. The companies flocked to the region because of its affordable land, readily available fiber-optic connectivity, abundant water, and even more important, inexpensive electricity. These factors are critical to today’s large-scale data centers, whose sheer size and power needs eclipse those of the previous generation by one or even two orders of magnitude. These new data centers are the physical manifestation of what Internet companies are calling cloud computing. The Architecture Issue - Data Center Overload. Spectrum: What Will the Data Center of the Future Look Like? The Rise of the Mega Data Center.
Behind popular web services such as Facebook, Google and Amazon’s AWS are racks and racks of computers serving up millions of pages or providing raw computing power. The use of thousands of servers to deliver one application or act as a pool of computing resources has changed the way that chipmakers and computer vendors are building their products. It has also led to the rise of the mega data center. Intel estimates that by 2012, up to a quarter of the server chips it sells will go into such mega data centers. Dell, which nearly two years ago created its Data Center Solutions Group to address the needs of customers buying more than 2,000 servers at a time, now says that division is the fourth- or fifth-largest server vendor in the world. In the meantime, suppliers are creating product lines and spending money on R&D to adjust to the needs of these mega data center operators, as those operators are fulfilling an increasing demand for applications and services delivered via the cloud.
Special Report: The World’s Largest Data Centers « Data Center K. {*style:<i>By: Rich Miller April 11th, 2010 </i>*} in Share {*style:<i> <b>Like this story? Get the latest data center news by e-mail or RSS , or follow us on Twitter or Facebook . The mega-data center has become a staple of our global technology infrastructure, serving as the backbone of the digital economy.
We’ve seen a lot of huge data centers in our travels, and have identified 10 that we believe are the largest found anywhere. We should note that there are many apples vs. oranges comparisons in the data center world. Here’s our list of the Ten Largest Data Centers, with links to more information about each facility: World’s Largest Data Center: 350 E. Cermak « Data Center Knowled. {*style:<i>By: Rich Miller April 13th, 2010 </i>*} in Share And the number one entry in our list of the world’s largest data centers … An aerial view of 350 East Cermak, the 1.1 million square foot data center facility in Chicago.
The industrial strength infrastructure includes four fiber vaults and three electric power feeds, which provide the building with more than 100 megawatts of power. 350 East Cermak is currently the second-largest power customer for Commonwealth Edison, trailing only Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Grid power is supported by more than 50 generators throughout the building, which are fueled by multiple 30,000 gallon tanks of diesel fuel. One of the most distinctive features of the facility is its cooling system, which is supported by an 8.5 million gallon tank of a refrigerated brine-like liquid (seen at left in the top photo). For more information, see . The building may have its exterior flourishes, but underneath it's industrial-strength ifnrastructure.
More Economies of Scale: Efficiency, Head Count and TCO | Clouds. James Hamilton’s presentation at Mix 10 illuminated cloud computing economics that few others have direct experience with, but I also believe that this presentation raises interesting questions that didn’t get addressed. (If you haven’t seen James Hamilton’s Mix10 presentation, go watch it now. You should probably also go through Randy’s follow up, and then watch James talk again… I’ve watched it 3 times now.) This is the first post that will refer to aspects of James’ talk (and I plan at least one more about business models) and in case I haven’t stressed this enough, if you have any interest in understanding the economics of cloud computing, take the time to watch one of the best in this business.
Central to James’ presentation is the breaking down the total cost of ownership of computational infrastructure. Cost Breakdown from James Hamilton The thing I want to focus on here is the missing cost of personnel. To keep the numbers easy, let’s assume an admin is paid $100,000 per year.
Cloud Computing Economies of Scale :: Sessions :: Microsoft MIX1.