Mega Datacenters
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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.
Energy Savings Another Boost for Cloud Computing
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.
Spectrum: Tech Titans Building Boom
Spectrum: What Will the Data Center of the Future Look Like?
The New York Times Magazine has an article on data centers -- the massive (though invisible to most users) computing infrastructure that runs our web searches, email, blogs, tweets. The article does a good job describing the architecture of current mega data centers and the challenges in building them. But what I missed in the story is: Where do we go from here. What will the data center of the future look like? Spectrum tried to offer an answer to this very question early this year. In the February '09 article " Tech Titans Building Boom ," by UC Berkeley professor Randy H.
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.
The Rise of the Mega Data Center
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Special Report: The World’s Largest Data Centers « Data Center K
{*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.
World’s Largest Data Center: 350 E. Cermak « Data Center Knowled
May 19, 2010 su 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.
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