Archive For The “Services” Category
In the talk I gave at the Efficient Data Center Summit, I note that the hottest place on earth over recorded history was Al Aziziyah Libya in 1922 where 136F (58C) was indicated (see Data Center Efficiency Summit (Posting #4)). What’s important about this observation from a data center perspective is that this most extreme…
Last week, Google hosted the Data Center Efficiency Summit. While there, I posted a couple of short blog entries with my rough notes: · Data Center Efficiency Summit · Rough Notes: Data Center Efficiency Summit · Rough Notes: Data Center Efficiency Summit (posting #3) In what follows, I summarize the session I presented and go…
Previous “rough notes” posting: Rough Notes: Data Center Efficiency Summit. Containers Based Data Center · Speaker: Jimmy Clidaras · 45 containers (222KW each/max is 250Kw – 780W/sq ft) · Showed pictures of containerized data centers · 300×250’ of container hanger · 10MW facility · Water side economizer · Chiller bybass o Limit chiller hours via…
My rough notes from the first two sessions at the Data Center Efficiency Summit at Google Mountain view earlier today: Data Center Energy Going Forward · Speaker: John Tuccillo, APC · Green Grid: o Data Collection & Analysis o Data Center Technology & Strategy o Data Center Operations o Data Center Metrics & Measurements ·…
Google is hosting a the Efficient Data Center summit today at their Mountain View facility. It looks like its going to be as great event and I fully expect we’ll see more detail than ever on how high scale operators run their facilities. But, in addition, one of the goals of the event is to…
I participated in the Self Managing Database Systems closing panel titled Grand Challenges in Database Self-Management. Also on the panel were: Anastassia Ailamaki (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Shivnath Babu (Duke University, USA) Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft Research, USA) Benoît Dageville (Oracle, USA) James Hamilton (Amazon, USA) Sam Lightstone (IBM Toronto Software Lab, Canada) Ken…
Today , I’m at the Self Managing Database Systems workshop which is part of the International Conference on Data Engineering in Shanghai. At last year’s ICDE, I participated in a panel: International Conference on Data Engineering 2008. Earlier today, I did the SMDB keynote where I presented: Cloud Computing Economies of Scale. The key points…
Febuary 28th, Cloud Camp Seattle was held at an Amazon facility in Seattle. Cloud Camp is described organizers as an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you…
In the current ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, there is an article on data center networking, Cost of a Cloud: Research Problems in Data Center Networks by Albert Greenberg, David Maltz, Parveen Patel, and myself. Abstract: The data centers used to create cloud services represent a significant investment in capital outlay and ongoing costs. Accordingly,…
Yesterday Amazon Web Services announced availability of Windows and SQL Server under Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in the European region. Running in the EU is important for workloads that need to be near customers in that region or workloads that operate on data that needs to stay in region. The AWS Management Console has been…
Earlier this evening I attended the Washington Technology Industry Association event Scaling into the Cloud with Amazon Web Services. Adam Selipsky, VP of Amazon Web Services gave an overview of AWS and was followed by two AWS customers each of which talked about their services and how they use AWS. My rough notes follow. Adam…
I collect postings on high-scale service architectures, scaling war stories, and interesting implementation techniques. For past postings see Scaling Web Sites and Scaling LinkedIn. Last week Bret Taylor posted an interesting description of the FriendFeed backend storage architecture: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store Schema-less Data. Friendfeed faces a subset of what I’ve called the…
Yesterday I presented Service Design Bets Practices at an internal Amazon talk series called Principals of Amazon. This talk series is very similar to the weekly Microsoft Enterprise Computing Series that I hosted for 8 years at Microsoft (also an internal series). Ironically both series were started by Pat Helland who is now back at…
Google has announced that the App Engine free quota resources will be reduced and pricing has been announced for greater-than-free tier usage. The reduction in free tier will be effective 90 days after the February 24th announcement and reduces CPU and bandwidth allocations by the following amounts: · CPU time free tier reduced to 6.4…
This morning Alyssa Henry, did the keynote at USENIX File and Storage Technology (FAST) Conference. Alyssa is General Manager of Amazon Simple Storage Service. Alyssa kicked off the talk by announcing that S3 now has 40B objects under management which is nearly 3x what was stored in S3 at this time last year. The remainder…
Building Scalable Web Apps with Google App Engine was presented by Brett Slatkin of Goolgle at Google I/O 2008. The link above points to the video but Todd Hoff of High Scalability summarized the presentation in a great post Numbers Everyone Should Know. The talk mostly focused on the Google App Engine and how to…