The Amazon Technology Open House was held Tuesday night at the Amazon South Lake Union Campus. I did a short presentation on the following:
• Quickening pace of infrastructure innovation
• Where does the money go?
• Power distribution infrastructure
• Mechanical systems
• Modular & Advanced Building Designs
• Sea Change in Networking
- Slides are posted at: http://mvdirona.com/jrh/TalksAndPapers/JamesHamilton_AmazonOpenHouse20110607.pdf
- Coverage on Data Center Knowledge: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/09/a-look-inside-amazons-data-centers/
- Coverage on Dave Ohara on GreenM3: http://www.greenm3.com/gdcblog/2011/6/8/amazonrsquos-data-center-container-quotperdixquot-something.html
b: http://blog.mvdirona.com / http://perspectives.mvdirona.com
Correct. All but the IT equipment.
Its easy to do much better but this is what a good best practices build can yield. Its even easier to do much worse :-)
–jrh
"$11MM/MW for Facility" What does this include? CAPEX (building including MEP build cost)only?
Thanks,
Mozan – Yahoo!
Michael, I’ve got more detail on what I’m describing as a sea change in networking at: //perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/12/19/NetworkingTheLastBastionOfMainframeComputing.aspx
And, on a related topic, Software Defined Networking: //perspectives.mvdirona.com/2011/05/20/SoftwareLoadBalancingUsingSoftwareDefinedNetworking.aspx
–jrh
I’d love some more insight into the Sea Change in Networking. Are you building your own switches with merchant silicon? Does Vyatta play a role here in addressing the proprietary nature of the big players code?