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Counting Servers is Hard 17 Jul 2013 | 05:34 am
At the Microsoft World-Wide Partners Conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. Google is bigger than we are. A...
Cumulus Networks: A Sneak Preview of One of My Favorite Startups 19 Jun 2013 | 12:15 am
Back in 2009, in Datacenter Networks are in my way, I argued that the networking world was stuck in the mainframe business model: everything vertically integrated. In most datacenter networking equipm...
The Power Failure Seen Around the World 5 Feb 2013 | 12:16 am
In the data center world, there are few events taken more seriously than power failure and considerable effort is spent to make them rare. When a datacenter experiences a power failure, it’s a really ...
Customer Trust 15 Jan 2013 | 09:32 am
In the cloud there is nothing more important than customer trust. Without customer trust, a cloud business can’t succeed. When you are taking care of someone else’s assets, you have to treat those ass...
Microserver Market Heats up: Intel Atom S1200 (Centerton) Announcement 11 Dec 2012 | 09:55 pm
Since 2008, I’ve been excited by, working on, and writing about Microservers. In these early days, some of the workloads I worked with were I/O bound and didn’t really need or use high single-thread p...
Redshift: Data Warehousing at Scale in the Cloud 28 Nov 2012 | 10:37 pm
I’ve worked in or near the database engine world for more than 25 years. And, ironically, every company I’ve ever worked at has been working on a massive-scale, parallel, clustered RDBMS system. The e...
AMD Announces Server Targeted ARM Part 30 Oct 2012 | 01:33 am
I have been interested in, and writing about, microservers since 2007. Microservers can be built using any instruction set architecture but I’m particularly interested in ARM processors and their app...
Google Mechanical Design 21 Oct 2012 | 03:48 am
When I come across interesting innovations or designs notably different from the norm, I love to dig in and learn the details. More often than not I post them here. Earlier this week, Google posted a ...
Amazon Event in Palo Alto (10/11@5pm) 11 Oct 2012 | 11:04 pm
The last few weeks have been busy and it has been way too long since I have blogged. I’m currently thinking through the server tax and what’s wrong with the current server hardware ecosystem but don’t...
Glacier: Engineering for Cold Data Storage in the Cloud 21 Aug 2012 | 05:46 pm
Earlier today Amazon Web Services announced Glacier, a low-cost, cloud-hosted, cold storage solution. Cold storage is a class of storage that is discussed infrequently and yet it is by far the largest...
