tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280206022012-01-23T10:30:40.871-06:00News, links and musings on the Data Center industry - by John RathJohn Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.comBlogger5621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-13671527734459366632012-01-04T00:58:00.000-06:002012-01-04T00:58:23.017-06:00

Now that all of the 2011 reviews and 2012 prediction stories are out I am finally getting around to my year-end review. I just didn't quite make it to post by the end of 2011.  Regardless, I have a number of items I wanted to cover as a means of reflecting on the year, data center stories, statistics and other musings. I don't spend a great deal of time in my Google Analytics for this blog,

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-4591009637287256042011-11-11T21:21:00.001-06:002011-11-11T23:26:43.041-06:00

I'm not big into numerology, but I figured it had been a while since I blogged here and what better day to post than on 11.11.11.  The eleven theme started when my St. Louis Cardinals won their 11th World Series Championship, in 11 post season games, in 2011! To continue the theme, I'll list 11 data center items of interest (and some misc. things): 1. One of the (many) reasons I don't find the

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-74635428358329797182011-09-07T00:59:00.000-05:002011-09-07T00:59:37.522-05:00

Now that most of the Steve Jobs tributes have been written I thought I would do my own brief homage. I have been an Apple fan ever since my parents purchased an Apple IIe in the early 1980's. I had AppleWorks, games and over a hundred 5.25" floppy disks.  A short while later my brother bought an Apple IIc and in 1986 I put all of my money together and bought my own Apple IIGS.  The IIGS was

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-19801468129335329552011-08-06T23:11:00.004-05:002011-08-08T00:34:31.927-05:00

About a month ago I decided to go to Cisco Live 2011 in Las Vegas. I wasn't sure what to expect going into it, but it was..... an experience! Cisco is an amazing company and their annual user and partner event holds nothing back. Networking geeks abound at the Mandalay Bay and there were live DJ's, an incredible user appreciation event/concert and rock-star style keynotes from CEO John

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-82086256724566137302011-06-06T00:29:00.006-05:002011-06-06T00:54:14.777-05:00

Last week Cisco released a really nice TechWise TV tour of their new Allen, Texas data center. First of all - Kudos to Cisco for explaining this level of detail about their new designs. Although much of what they showcase as cutting edge design methods are just that - they are things I've seen recently pop up in a number of other presentations about new data centers being built by Colo's,

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-38990490885203654462011-06-05T15:39:00.003-05:002011-06-05T16:55:55.052-05:00

Last week I attended the 2011 Heartland GreenUp, and for the sake of reporting it, and for those unable to attend I thought I would share some of the insights I took away.Harris M. Warsaw from IBM was the keynote and had several interesting statistics and notes about the Smarter Planet - The Green Message:$40 billion lost to inefficient supply chainsThe Port of Jersey has 100,000 empty ISO

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-22096798307819799292011-05-30T22:22:00.005-05:002011-05-31T00:01:33.787-05:00

As I prepare to attend The Heartland GreenUp this Thursday I have read a number of articles around power lately that I thought were interesting.Tech Companies becoming Power Companies?Last week Fast Company had a nice article titled The Race for the Most Efficient Server is Turning Tech Companies Into Power Companies. The first item they bring up is that the big 'information factories' like

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-70290133866042220322011-05-02T22:53:00.004-05:002011-05-03T00:06:09.052-05:00

It seems like every week I am perusing the tech news and can practically guarantee that there are at least a couple of IT conferences or events going on. Next week there are several that make me wish I could be two places at once.I'll start with the best one, since it is the one I will be attending!! The Uptime Institute Symposium 2011 will be in Santa Clara and is focused on The Disrupted Data

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-77371681904153689032011-04-10T22:49:00.002-05:002011-04-10T23:16:40.129-05:00

In June 2009 I wrote about a new data center being built in Allen, Texas for Cisco. On Friday, April 15th they will showcase this new facility, including a live broadcast on Ustream.See this site for a nice chronicle of the facility. The project won the Dallas Business Journal's Best Real Estate Deal award.Cisco IT at work has a piece on the specifications for the facility and how they are using

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-55623628390185639582011-03-18T23:34:00.007-05:002011-03-21T00:14:41.931-05:00

Recently a series of events prompted Verizon to pull out of plans to build a 900,000 square foot data center near Buffalo, New York. In the spirit of a few years back when people were cheerleading to have Google or Microsoft build a mega data center in their city or state, I would like to make the offer to Verizon -- Iowa would LOVE to have you build your data center here!!There are a number of

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-46157413295928200122011-03-16T23:33:00.003-05:002011-03-17T00:25:28.203-05:00

There are just certain things in IT or the data center industry you don't want to hear - and fire and 'data loss' are two of them. There were a couple of lessons learned from fire and data loss stories recently and I post them here for just that reason - to learn from them.The University of North Carolina Greensboro had one heck of a Friday last week. In a little under two hours they experienced

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-83983706889449127422011-02-16T23:00:00.003-06:002011-02-17T00:16:07.910-06:00

I don't usually like to go on rants - but I watched a video tonight from a local news station that simply pushed me over the edge as far as what the general public thinks this magical, mystery "cloud" thing is. I know I am a techie, and live and breathe this stuff, but come on......KXAS reports on an AT&T data center that is referred to as this newfangled thing people call "the cloud". You get

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-14176489182400546602011-02-08T23:19:00.002-06:002011-02-08T23:31:24.560-06:00

I ran across the video below recently -- I enjoy a 3D walk-through that show the various aspects of a conceptual data center. I'll have to admit though that I had not heard of (or maybe just forgot) Skanska. They are a large, global company, with a Mission Critical practice for data center construction and similar projects.After a quick search, I do somewhat recall their name from the story

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-81796686328567087832011-01-23T23:01:00.003-06:002011-01-23T23:42:23.505-06:00

I've lamented in the past about the inability of comparing data center industry companies. I certainly don't think the financial analysts are able to properly categorize companies such as Equinix, Digital Realty Trust, Savvis or DuPont Fabros. Comparing them and looking at various ratios is interesting though and still worth the look - in my opinion.Last summer I attended a finance class and we

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-9880989295321986022011-01-02T21:56:00.003-06:002011-01-02T23:05:55.586-06:00

Those interested in data centers are more than likely interested in power, renewables, the grid, the smart grid, etc., as it is of vital importance to ensuring maximum uptime. Upon my holiday surfing recently I came across an interesting article about flywheels and flywheel frequency regulation. I've been intrigued about flywheels recently because....... well, just because.Beacon Power (BCON)

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-82238482879241682042010-12-28T00:37:00.007-06:002010-12-28T01:17:53.737-06:00

This time of year I typically become inundated with "Top X Stories for 20xx" and reviews and predictions for the next year. Some times I have simply joined the crowd and made my own predictions, but this year I thought I would just 'link' to some of my favorites and review the news, innovations and prognostications for things to come.Looking back at 2010:I made the prediction for 2010 that it

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-27757357383775697592010-12-13T01:16:00.003-06:002010-12-13T02:20:04.312-06:00

I don't know if I am technically a statistics geek, but I certainly enjoy the annual Zeitgeist that Google puts out this time each year. It captures the year in search - all of the billions of search queries, crunched nicely and categorized for our viewing pleasure. No wonder they need warehouse-scale computing!For the U.S. in the "A Greener World" category, the Bloom Energy was the #1 search

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-75076679881824217802010-11-21T23:52:00.004-06:002010-11-22T01:18:52.687-06:00

When I started this blog many years ago one of the primary reasons for it was to simply post the links to sites or stories that I had been reading about in the data center industry. I am an information junkie -- I won't join the support group, because that would mean I want to stop being an information junkie.A very interesting New York Times article published this past weekend describes what I

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-7809303029455286102010-10-28T01:30:00.002-05:002010-10-28T03:21:36.255-05:00

I attended the October Lee Tech on Tap event in Chicago last week, and aside from seconding Dave O'Hara's comments this past summer about it being a refreshing approach/alternative to the data center conference I have to add that it is nice to see Chicago and the Midwest represented so well. There was a large turn-out for this event and some (in my opinion) big names in the industry.The

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-48680968487853059492010-09-03T20:42:00.004-05:002010-09-03T20:48:03.179-05:00

A little over a year ago I visited the brand new Emerson data center in St. Louis. I was pretty impressed - you can see my write-up of it here.Emerson has released a very nice 3D tour of the facility :

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-44479085067172392402010-08-01T14:52:00.002-05:002010-08-01T15:23:32.146-05:00

This one makes the "John's Cool Stuff" list for the week - Intel announced that for the first time they have an integrated silicon photonics transmitter using hybrid silicon lasers that is capable of sending data at 50 gigabits per second across an optical fiber to an integrated silicon photonics receiver chip which converts the optical data back into electrical.As Intel summarizes in their blog

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-31244361832216758692010-07-27T00:12:00.002-05:002010-07-27T01:06:23.910-05:00

I've always said it would be fun to open a remote data center in the Caribbean. Even if just for disaster recovery or BCP purposes, think how fun it would be to 'have' to go for an annual DR exercise and make sure the remote site is operational.I ran across a Jamaica Gleaner news article about Flow Jamaica, a member of Columbus Communications and Jamaica triple play provider. The article was

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-80088933186193243252010-06-27T19:36:00.002-05:002010-06-27T19:42:31.421-05:00

iPhone4 & iPad + Microsoft Home of the Future +Roku & Slingbox=Talk2Cisco - Global demand for Broadband - Part 1and.... more mega data centers as well

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-73395352000374459892010-06-26T23:18:00.003-05:002010-06-26T23:46:50.404-05:00

I was all set to write a wonderful blog post enticing Microsoft to decide on Des Moines for their next data center .... extolling about how wonderful Iowa is, how Des Moines was recently listed as one of the best cities to live in and numerous other reasons. The very next day they confirmed that they had indeed (re)selected West Des Moines for the site. I like to tell myself that they just

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-53666003262616443322010-05-28T13:19:00.009-05:002010-06-15T01:14:36.665-05:00

Data center services provider TEAM Companies has released a new video that does a fly-through of a typical data center. The modular design used in a TEAM facility is broken out in this video into infrastructure layers that depict power, cooling, telecom, data rooms and network operations center.TEAM Companies operates multi-tenant data centers in Cedar Falls and Des Moines, Iowa, as well as

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-33024196013259522072010-05-23T18:53:00.005-05:002010-05-23T20:52:27.503-05:00

I always hate going too far into smart grid, alternative energy or greentech territory on this, a data center blog, but..... with data centers consuming as much as they do, I have to imagine it is on the mind of many of those interested in data centers.A short while back siteselection.com released The Site Selection Energy Report and after glancing through it, I filled a dozen or so Firefox tabs

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-71219570213362947682010-05-10T00:28:00.004-05:002010-05-10T02:05:52.837-05:00

Last Wednesday I attended the Heartland Green Up in Des Moines. Besides being a big proponent of technology, Iowa, and technology in Iowa -- this symposium was an awesome event, and I hope the success it had this year is dwarfed by future years.The opening keynote was Randy Mott, Executive VP and CIO of HP. Having the experience that Randy does, and the responsibility of that title for a $100+

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-77474127204080001342010-05-01T22:12:00.003-05:002010-05-01T22:24:29.459-05:00

Being in between the GreenNet conference last week and the upcoming Heartland Green Up (which I am going to) -- I have a lot of green news in my browser cache. There were several interesting things at the GreenNet conference that caught my attention -- most notably the Google Budget Containment system. I've looked at air curtains before and have been intrigued...I think they give an attractive

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-33046251768224995192010-04-28T00:32:00.003-05:002010-04-28T01:03:50.323-05:00

A while back the Black Swan Real Estate Zine had a post I enjoyed. Typically you will see data center site selection articles about where TO build a facility, but Black Swan approached it from the other point of view -- 10 Places You Don't Want to Build.My two favorite on their list are #5 - In a building that used to be something else and #6 - in a large metropolitan area. I see a number of

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-9410806012256831212010-04-23T09:57:00.003-05:002010-04-23T10:23:38.240-05:00

Just a few weeks left until The Heartland GreenUp! If you haven't heard about this event -- please check it out. It is shaping up to be an outstanding symposium and expo. The goal of the conference is to "promote awareness of and best practices in reducing overall energy consumption and carbon footprints in information technology. This premiere event provides a forum to discover and share

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-84079301185772504312010-03-07T21:57:00.003-06:002010-03-07T22:59:45.387-06:00

A story on Vietnam Business News caught my eye this weekend -- no, not a publication I 'usually' read, but thanks to a Google alert....The story covers mobile data centers being offered in the Vietnamese market by Dot VN, Vietnam Internet Center and Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS). Once again, the marketing hype calls it "meeting Tier 4+ standard" -- not sure which Tier system they are

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-85493455635460040032010-02-18T00:15:00.003-06:002010-02-18T01:11:39.532-06:00

In a recent speech on clean energy in Lanham, Maryland President Obama announced that his administration has approved an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the U.S. in three decades. His 2010 budget calls for $54 billion to be set aside for nuclear loan guarantees, so other announcements are sure to come. President Obama noted that "Japan and France have long

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-35829686284927522272010-01-24T12:40:00.003-06:002010-01-24T13:11:20.242-06:00

I would like to preface this post with the statement that I am very much a novice when it comes to stock analysis and any form of insightful opinion into the valuation of a publicly held company. However, I think it is interesting, I'm learning, and it allows me to really dig into the inner workings of a company.I decided to do a little analysis of the colocation industry and the specific stocks

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-33921860397429769512010-01-04T23:19:00.003-06:002010-01-04T23:58:49.304-06:00

A number of 'data center' job openings have come up on my radar recently and so I went digging. Maybe the new year means new budgets and new initiatives to hire and fill data center jobs that the 2009 fiscal year just didn't allow. Maybe it's an indicator of a hot job market for the data center industry in 2010. Maybe I need to surf the web a little less and stop reading into things so much.A

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-76204807745567073562009-12-31T23:44:00.002-06:002009-12-31T23:49:36.954-06:00

I'm going to keep my final post of the year brief for a few reasons -- one, I waited until the very last minute to write it, and two, everyone is probably tired of 2009 reviews and 2010 predictions.First - stocks. After over a year of manually tracking my own data center stock index I'm going to stop (actively) tracking it. I have found some amazingly cool Google Finance formulas for Google

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-79043452928740532292009-12-27T22:15:00.005-06:002009-12-27T23:27:49.244-06:00

Smart Grid is a topic captured my attention late last year and I have been (loosely) following the topic ever since. A Google Insights graph shows that I am right in line with everyone else and that 2009 was a big year for smart grid. In April 2009 I started collecting a few links on smart grid and this past summer I had every intention on posting a few links out to the things I had been

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-85951460944436320582009-12-24T14:27:00.004-06:002009-12-24T14:47:30.843-06:00

Over a month since my last blog post .... wow. Between the holidays, being busy at work and busy at home, I just have not found the time to blog. However, one main reason I haven't posted much here lately is the 'other' blog I write for. If you follow the data center industry then surely you have seen -- I am a contributor to the editorial team at the one and only Data Center Knowledge blog.I

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-76395406229958262642009-11-03T00:54:00.004-06:002009-11-03T01:06:59.429-06:00

I have been thinking about an update to my now 2 year old white paper on data center site selection. Many blog posts and articles on the web this past year have prompted me to think of many new additions that could be integrated in to it.For instance -- TreeHugger.com reported today on a very interesting story about the 100-Mile Diet for Electricity? It discusses a new/second version of a study

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-26681583971142264972009-11-03T00:30:00.002-06:002009-11-03T00:52:35.945-06:00

Although originally reported over a month ago at Data Center Knowledge --- CNet has a photo tour (follow-up or re-hash story) of the new Microsoft data center in Chicago today. I am still hopeful that the data center Microsoft is planning for Des Moines will be their generation 4 data center model. I am extremely curious to see that in action. I've analyzed the video and pictures that they

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-40016996981662044232009-10-27T00:22:00.003-05:002009-10-27T00:45:06.956-05:00

Mergers and acquisitions are always fun to speculate on. In this industry it seems like a week doesn't go by where some M&A activity is happening. With the recent Equinix acquisition of Switch and Data I have to wonder if more data center industry acquisitions will happen before the end of the year. Both Google and Cisco have said that shopping sprees will continue to gain speed in 2010.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-66310410127524210632009-10-24T22:24:00.002-05:002009-10-24T22:54:48.503-05:00

There was an interesting development in the Equinix acquisition of Switch and Data late this last week. Kendall Law Group announced a shareholder investigation into Switch and Data Board of Directors in connection with the proposed acquisition by Equinix.Their release states:"Kendall Law Group’s investigation concerns whether the consideration to be paid to shareholders below the fair or

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-44718034496281085492009-10-21T07:43:00.004-05:002009-10-21T08:00:11.630-05:00

The Wall Street Journal reports that Iowa has become the second largest producer of wind power in the U.S.. Tax breaks, cost recovery assurance and few zoning regulations for wind turbines are cited as reasons for the ranking.At the end of the second quarter of 2009, Iowa had 3,043 megawatts of total wind capacity, compared with 8,361 megawatts in Texas and 2,787 megawatts in California,

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-73733051631219537842009-09-30T00:07:00.005-05:002009-09-30T00:27:17.663-05:00

Quite the news day this Tuesday, September 29, 20091. Google Wave will send out 100,000 invitations to Google Wave tomorrow. This is shaping up to be 'the' killer app of the year/decade. With the hype machine in full swing we'll see if it lives up to the promise. I have my request in for an invite!2. BIG wave : after a magnitude 8.0 earth quake was recorded near American Samoa, a Tsunami

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-18928146160148605312009-09-16T22:06:00.003-05:002009-09-16T23:02:49.150-05:00

Just a quick link to an outstanding blog post by Irving Wladawsky-Berger. I've linked to him before, because I thoroughly enjoy his thoughts and analysis. Among the amazing amount of cloud computing hype out there, Irving truly gets it and shows us how clouds and computing have evolved and will continue to.Check out his August 31 post on The Data Center in the Cambrian Age. He compares cloud

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-21851528009415411782009-09-09T00:59:00.002-05:002009-09-09T01:09:40.114-05:00

The Broad Group has announced the "World's first global data centre market performance index". The index is a partnership with Data Centre News and AHV Associated LLP, a corporate finance advisor based in London. The index is a capitalisation-weighted index of large companies in the data center sector from all over the world. The index has shown so far that the U.S. dominates companies in the

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-76220815007898802132009-09-03T23:24:00.003-05:002009-09-03T23:38:18.344-05:00

As a follow-up to my post yesterday on BBN -- I found this article at ComputerWorld about the Internet turning 40. September 2, 1969 (very good year) computer scientists at UCLA created the first network connection between two computers. Companies present during this exciting time were GTE Corp., DARPA, Honeywell and Scientific Data Systems.The article interviews UCLA distinguished Professor of

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-29206365572549873542009-09-02T23:38:00.004-05:002009-09-03T00:16:22.405-05:00

Government contractor Raytheon has acquired BBN Technologies. Most people (I think) won't even recognize the company name BBN Technologies. I've been in IT long enough (barely) that I remember BBN from the very early days of the Internet. BBN is a Massachusetts company known for the development of packet switching, including work for the ARPANET; predecessor to the Internet. They also

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-88617581579363781192009-08-25T23:50:00.004-05:002009-08-26T00:10:31.909-05:00

Earth2tech has an excellent article on smarter storage -- how data storage can account for up to 40 percent of the energy consumed by a data center. GigaOm's Tom Trainer offered data de-duplication and thin provisioning as technologies that were helping the greening efforts. 3Par is a leader in thin provisioning, which is a "mechanism that applies to large-scale centralized computer disk

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-2963147768192191042009-08-24T00:16:00.003-05:002009-08-24T00:29:03.958-05:00

As I approach almost a full year of tracking my data center stocks, I thought I would post the chart for the wild ride it has been. I think for the most part these stocks have weathered the recession pretty well, and as you can see, they are doing quite well lately. Reference this blog post to see what stocks are included in my capitalization-weighted index.Here is the October 2008 through

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-49222672637312183732009-08-10T23:19:00.003-05:002009-08-10T23:35:17.298-05:00

Ok, so those 3 things aren't related -- I just had a couple of things I ran across tonight that I found interesting....1. Cisco looks to ride smart-grid data deluge. This one is pretty apparent if you follow the Cisco news and EnergyWise software announcements. I keep waiting for a Cisco acquisition -- particularly in this space.2. HP's vision of building City 2.0. HP Labs sustainability

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-39823392071779342112009-08-08T22:18:00.003-05:002009-08-08T23:26:01.225-05:00

The DataCenterDynamics site has an article I really liked, titled The American Clould's Weakest Link. It covers the sobering speech given by Allied Fiber CEO Hunter Newby at the Seattle DataCenterDynamics conference Thursday. Newby said "Moving apps into the cloud is very dangerous if you don't know your physical fiber route". How very true -- I almost think people take the physical

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-57756428974910858472009-08-06T23:31:00.003-05:002009-08-06T23:59:59.795-05:00

Renewable Energy World reports on the DOE $57 million to fund smart grid development yesterday. The original announcement was back on July 20th and included more than $47 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and $10.5 million to increase the nation's energy security. Wednesday Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of more than $47 million in funding.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-4208277103900740302009-07-26T23:27:00.003-05:002009-07-27T00:15:26.166-05:00

nextgov.com reports that a NASA cloud computing model, called Nebula is being looked at by NASA and the Obama administration for federal agencies to outsource IT services to a shared platform. "A significant journey ahead" may be an understatement -- an estimated 10 year migration would have several hurdles to manage. NASA's Chris Kemp is working with the federal government's could computing

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-51637642745635761412009-07-21T00:26:00.004-05:002009-07-21T01:00:27.484-05:00

Today I attended the open house for the new Emerson Global data center in St. Louis. The data center and presenting staff were both very impressive. The data center, like many corporate initiatives we’ve heard about in recent years, was a consolidation project. Emerson consolidated over 100 data centers they had around the world in remote offices, acquired companies and such and made the St.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-36627010085946334502009-07-19T21:23:00.004-05:002009-07-20T10:00:48.931-05:00

Communications provider Paetec announced Thursday that they are opening an advanced data center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania."The 6,500 square feet of space available for customers includes the newest advancements in equipment with connectivity up to 10 Gbps, more energy efficient devices, higher cooling capacity to meet the increasingly powerful applications and a new Bi-Fuel power system

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-157181482291869742009-07-15T21:17:00.007-05:002009-07-15T22:35:42.883-05:00

I've run across several items recently of interest in terms of smartgrids, new energy sources and reports on renewable energy.Blue is the new GreenTHE man, Mr. Bob Metcalfe (small invention known as Ethernet) -- is a partner in Polaris Venture Partners, a group of "experienced venture capital investors and technology executives." Polaris backs many IT and life science businesses and has an

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-10543921412866430532009-07-08T22:47:00.002-05:002009-07-08T22:58:46.670-05:00

Superb Internet announced the opening of a new data center today, located in Springfield, Virginia. DCA3 compliments its two existing data centers in McLean, VA and Seattle, WA. The new facility will facilitate a continued strong demand for data center space and they will offer dedicated servers as well as colocation services.Check out the press release here.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-53410477339901053292009-07-08T22:24:00.003-05:002009-07-08T22:44:14.628-05:00

SGI/Rackable has some new media on their site for the ICE Cube Modular Data Center. I think this container has been one of my favorites ever since I saw it at a DataCenter World conference. It is really pretty unique in the container market -- if you get SGI servers inside. They take the fans out of the servers and are able to get amazing density: 1400U of available space and up to 22,400

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-56843165247326633822009-07-06T20:54:00.003-05:002009-07-06T21:27:34.915-05:00

SGI performed quite well in the semi-annual ranking of the world's TOP500 Supercomputer sites this past June. They had the #4 supercomputer -- the Pleiades - Altix ICE 8200EX at the NASA/Ames Research Center. Although not an official award, they also were heralded as the industry's "greenest" supercomputer, as measured by performance efficiency. Performance efficiency, or “LINPACK efficiency,

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-40304518131123156312009-07-05T20:29:00.003-05:002009-07-05T21:02:58.279-05:00

It's always fun to speculate about IPO's, mergers and acquisitions. In the tech industry it happens so often it's hard to keep track of who bought who and how long ago it was. My current train of thought on the topic surrounded the recent news of CoreSite. CoreSite is a Carlyle Group company, which as I mentioned before is a HUGE global private equity company. I wondered if CoreSite would do

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-46648653658705034702009-06-30T22:44:00.005-05:002009-06-30T23:08:34.761-05:00

I've always been pretty impressed with CoreSite (formerly CRG West). They've been a solid company, in the data center business for quite some time, and they stay innovative. A few months back they announced a partnership with Verari and the FOREST containers. Recently they re-branded to CoreSite, a Carlyle Company. I remember many years ago asking my boss who the Carlyle Group was, and he

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-88509353307071386322009-06-30T21:37:00.003-05:002009-06-30T22:33:14.849-05:00

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Energy Summit, held yesterday, gave Equinix the Power Energy Innovator Award. The ceremony held at Stanford recognized their nearly $1 million in rebates received from the city of Santa Clara for energy efficiency measures implemented. Equinix optimized efficiencies at its Silicon Valley 2 (SV2) data center."As a part of Equinix’s expansion at its SV2 center,

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-6499178940656417062009-06-15T23:32:00.002-05:002009-06-15T23:42:02.262-05:00

The Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2009, or H.R. 2428, would "require many of the so-called 'shovel-ready' projects funded by the stimulus bill earlier this year to also lay conduits capable of carrying fiber optic cables." Two Democratic Senators announced a measure today that would require states to build 'tubes' for internet fiber optic cables under every bit of highway they build or

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-68800450417722414742009-06-15T23:03:00.003-05:002009-06-15T23:07:09.709-05:00

Forbes has a very nice article on i/o Data Centers - the cool company in the hot Phoenix desert. They interview President Anthony Wanger and ask why the Phoenix area has been such a hot bed of activity for corporate data centers and i/o Data Centers growth.Check out the article here

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-82350978847662454762009-06-11T22:12:00.003-05:002009-06-11T22:31:01.958-05:00

A 160k square foot retrofit will be the home of the first data center for Global Datacenter Trust. The company announced ground breaking for the facility, dubbed Phoenix NAP on Thursday. The facility will have more than 20 megawatts of power, 2N redundancy all the way back to the substation, a 3000 sq. ft meet-me room, and modular chilled water plants.Although this is the first data center for

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-49654327126331805842009-06-11T22:04:00.002-05:002009-06-11T22:09:20.347-05:00

Lightreading.com has an excellent article about the tests they ran against Cisco IP video infrastructure, applications, and data. The report is broken out into the various areas and equipment, and disects the claims that Cisco makes on their hardware and software.Storage Area NetworksUnified FabricVirtual Machine RelocationData Center ConvergenceIn-Service Software UpgradeControl Plane

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-50613143359905980392009-06-09T23:46:00.000-05:002009-06-09T23:53:29.306-05:00

The Environmental Leader site has a nice story on data center cooling methods. The main part of the article talks about the GlaxoSmithKline data center in Brentford, UK that installed a water chiller cooled by the Grand Union Canal that runs along side the building. The article also discusses Sentialla's Energy Manager For Data Centers. Very interesting read -- check it out here.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-40492926281093906812009-06-09T23:22:00.000-05:002009-06-09T23:27:13.546-05:00

Cisco and Duke Energy announced a partnership today to fast-track the development of Duke Energy's smart grid. Duke serves 11 million people over 5 states and later this year will launch a five year mass deployment of smart grid technology."Cisco, working closely with Duke Energy, will develop a highly refined, end-to-end, smart grid communications architecture – one that both companies believe

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-5250234892263493092009-06-09T22:31:00.004-05:002009-06-09T23:13:50.427-05:00

Cisco announced today that they will build a 140,000 - 160,000 square foot data center in Allen, Texas. The facility is reported to cost $500 Million, employ 100 people and (wait for it....) Cisco will receive tax incentives. Cisco stock closed up 1.06% today at $20.08The Allen Economic Development Corporation has a nice report on the the Data Center proposal for the Stacy Road location that

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-51004120371535410512009-06-08T23:51:00.006-05:002009-06-09T00:07:22.377-05:00

At an estimated value of around $4 Billion Qwest announced today confirming that they will not be selling their long-haul network. I have to agree with the Telecom Ramblings blog in that this was just a trial and if they didn't like the bids today, it won't stop them from reconsidering an offer later in the year.Check out the Qwest Press Release hereThere is a nice history lesson of the 1984 AT&

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-84021937765217825062009-06-03T21:51:00.004-05:002009-06-03T22:16:05.170-05:00

Like I was saying in my last post -- the data center news is getting predictable:____insert city name here____ is poised to become a high-tech hub, thanks to a change in state law that allows __________.This time around: Northern Inidana, where they have passed a law that allows for personal property tax exemptions on data center equipment. The announcement is complete with benefits for Metronet

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-43732725919546341962009-06-02T22:07:00.002-05:002009-06-02T22:13:14.566-05:00

Get ready for the shocking news... :) NC House passes tax code that could bring Apple data center. It seems like these mega data center announcements are pretty cookie-cutter as far as 'how' the deal goes down. Months and months of stealth mode, a "leak" of information, tax breaks written for data center "companies" and so on. The funny thing in this arstechnica article is that "the bill

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-40588681480359170712009-05-26T22:48:00.003-05:002009-05-26T23:03:30.597-05:00

I have followed i/o Data Centers for a while now. Today I ran across a press release that furthers my theory about containers and the colocation market, as well as supporting the overall container momentum.SGI / Rackable announced that it recently shipped its ICE Cube modular data center to i/o Data Centers to address clients' evolving data center needs. The press release is about 95% marketing

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-23563160785984751552009-05-26T21:24:00.003-05:002009-05-26T22:42:02.939-05:00

Just a couple of items I noticed today in regards to the data center stocks I monitor. First, is an update to the data center stock index I started last year. It has been a roller coaster -- here is the latest graph:More details on what the index is comprised of can be found here.The Dow Jones Internet Composite Index has also been graphing quite nicely the last 3 months.The second story was

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-49849405540604051892009-05-26T00:06:00.004-05:002009-05-26T00:23:39.206-05:00

Nope -- not a blog post about temperatures and cooling in the data center -- this time I'm talking about educational degrees. ITJungle.com reports on Metropolitan Community College (MCC), in Omaha reinventing its General IT curriculum. They are adding specialized course work realting to the IBM Power Systems i Platform - and launching a two-year educational track called Data Center Management.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-14505403304739232242009-05-09T22:32:00.002-05:002009-05-09T22:45:54.369-05:00

Apparently Freemont, Nebraska lost out on a bid for a Yahoo data center.  A study was then done to determine whether Fremont was a suitable location for a data center.  The study findings show a spot on the north edge of town that would be idea.  The main selling point for the city is power -- 30 megawatts.  While it may not have been enough for Yahoo, they point out it is perfect for the smaller

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-71462468517080716452009-05-09T21:52:00.002-05:002009-05-09T22:09:45.997-05:00

It looks like Yahoo is planning another mega data center, this time in Western New York.  The Wall Street Journal reports that state officials are working with Yahoo to establish the new data center and that the Governor asked the Power Authority to come up with low-cost power (which is why I was suprised to hear the news in the first place).Late last month Yahoo reported a strong balance sheet

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-90852737853954165852009-05-07T21:06:00.002-05:002009-05-07T23:18:19.253-05:00

For the most part I stay away from articles or links about cloud computing -- it's just too crowded right now and I have too much to read, let alone write about.  I have, however run across several good links lately that I wanted to share:Many sites and blogs have coverered the move from Microsoft to Digital Realty Trust for Michael Manos.  I thought the May 5th post on his blog - Forecast Cloudy

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-8673330975639093972009-05-03T23:48:00.003-05:002009-05-04T21:19:03.689-05:00

For anyone that has read my blog for a while, you will know that I have a side interest in Wind Energy. Power and renewable energy sources are obviously huge issues for the data center industry and since I live in one of the top wind energy producing states, it has always been of interest to me. Tonight I read two lines from an article about a Berkshire Hathaway meeting that piqued my interest.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-82448524689288832132009-04-29T21:59:00.004-05:002009-04-29T22:29:58.816-05:00

I have run across several news items about Intel Inc. lately and thought I would share.  The first was a ComputerWorld article last week about the EPA Study on energy saving opportunities in servers and data centers.  Intel has been working closely with the EPA to develop the new data center energy performance rating.  About a month ago Intel launched their 5500 series processors and their Data

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-51502528219257305422009-04-27T21:00:00.004-05:002009-04-27T21:13:27.141-05:00

When I did my site selection white paper I loved looking at various maps of the U.S. to depict a number of different things.  Tonight I ran across a new set of maps and very interesting information (link courtesy of my  brother-in-law).NPR is running a series titled "Electricity in America".    This map, Visualizing the Grid, shows power lines, power plants, sources of power and other data

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-69570361798815197702009-04-22T23:00:00.004-05:002009-04-22T23:42:02.975-05:00

Equinix announced their first quarter 2009 results today. Proving that the demand for colocation and data center services is still high, they had some good numbers:Increased quarterly revenues to $199.2 million, a 4% increase over the previous quarter and 26% increase over the same quarter last year."Capital expenditures in the first quarter were $75 million, of which $10.3 million was

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-19184329004294038062009-04-08T13:02:00.003-05:002009-04-08T13:08:13.358-05:00

I found a couple of YouTube videos (link from Mauricio Freitas) that were pretty interesting.First -- Mauricio has a few pictures from a HP Storage POD - filled with 22 racks, each containing 160TB of storage. Just park that in my back yard and I'll be good to go!Also on his blog he has videos of the HP Factory Express:and information about the re-architected HP Servers (pretty cool stuff here):

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-52673546292077224312009-04-06T23:05:00.003-05:002009-04-06T23:10:16.906-05:00

Just a quick post about an interesting documentary video on the Iceland Data Center Market (link from the Green Data Center blog). I know there have been many skeptics about this area being good for data centers, but they certainly have a lot of things coming together recently that make a case for them.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-81862231873008141652009-04-06T22:16:00.002-05:002009-04-06T22:50:08.705-05:00

"Level 3 Financing, Inc., has received commitments from lenders to increase the borrowings under its existing $1.4 billion senior secured credit facility through the creation of a $220 million Tranche B loan"That quote was from the StreetInsider.com article on the Level3 announcement. The loan is reported to be used for "general corporate purposes". I'm a techie - so I had to Google what "

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-21205022884893007962009-04-06T21:51:00.002-05:002009-04-06T22:02:27.639-05:00

Xerox will pay $100 Million over six years for HCL Technologies to manage disaster recovery preparation and consolidate data centers across North America and Europe.This article over on MarketWatch has the details and quite the discussion thread to follow.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-19975858125097966162009-03-31T23:03:00.003-05:002009-03-31T23:15:56.421-05:00

As I read the Pingdom article about "8 ways to make data centers less boring"....I recalled a TED talk I watched recently. The talk was from Don Norman, and I later learned that it was a speech from 2003! Anyway, it was a Really good talk and made me think about the overall design of a data center and how it makes you feel when seeing it.I work in the colo industry, so we have to sell the data

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-79518649715327919892009-03-30T22:39:00.004-05:002009-03-30T23:49:21.914-05:00

LOTS of news today, and not much time, so here you go.....NYT: Rackable vows to outlast price war with Dell. Interesting story about Rackable and their history and strategy against Dell. I like Rackable....I don't think they are the right solution for 'everyone', but there is a lot of potential. Rackable, along with Intel, Netapp and Akamai have probably bought a few steak dinners for Facebook

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-73627441298012912022009-03-24T21:51:00.002-05:002009-03-24T22:08:53.227-05:00

Yesterday GE Digital Energy (a division of General Electric) announced that its 750kVA SG Series Digital Energy UPS has been certified as an Ecoimagination product. “As the IT industry’s demand for data storage grows significantly each year, so does the amount of energy needed to run servers and data centers,” said Larry Sollecito, President and CEO, GE Digital Energy. “GE’s

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-20327003859279821272009-03-23T23:36:00.003-05:002009-03-23T23:50:25.587-05:00

Just some quick links to things I found on the net today -- no time to comment; just things I found to be interesting.....Check out the drawing in this IEEE Spectrum article. It looks like another approach to the Microsoft 4th Generation data center (outdoor container park)! The article is good also --- although it is kind of a summary of what has gone on the last 6-12 months....nothing

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-2526499073198252562009-03-21T23:20:00.003-05:002009-03-21T23:39:25.786-05:00

On Friday Charlotte based data center operator Peak 10 announced the opening of its second world-class data center, located in Tampa, Florida. The 15,400 square foot facility will bring their total footprint to more than 30,000 square feet."Like all Peak 10 facilities, the new Tampa data center is engineered with multiple levels of security, uninterruptible power, HVAC systems, fire

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-73876880252220874562009-03-11T22:16:00.002-05:002009-03-11T22:30:09.456-05:00

Just a quick link to an article I liked about Verari Systems, maker of the FOREST data center container. It was on the Xconomy | San Diego site and is an interview with two execs from Verari. The article discusses gree technologis, efficiencies, financial aspects of containers and overall energy-saving approaches.Check it out here.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-35618307779642978272009-03-10T22:13:00.005-05:002009-03-10T23:14:21.509-05:00

Data Center Knowledge had an interesting article today on the AST-Global data center container, displayed at CeBIT. Does anyone know what the tie is between AST and IBM (i.e.: the IBM PMDC container is made by AST, or the AST container is made by IBM)?I did a search for AST-Global, not being very familiar with them and found an interesting Power Point presentation by Pablo Fernandez of AST.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-37533051455540146502009-03-09T23:06:00.003-05:002009-03-09T23:22:40.054-05:00

Remember the part about the economy getting worse before it gets better? Well.... the data center stock index I started back in October continues to set new lows. Today's value was $16.41. I also started tracking 4 colocation companies in a separate index; Equinix, Terremark, Savvis and Switch and Data. Here are my Google Spreadsheet charts for those indexes:DataCenter Stock IndexColocation

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-10262708292450696892009-03-05T22:50:00.003-06:002009-03-05T22:54:38.227-06:00

Since most of my blog activity lately is 'reading' them instead of posting to my own, I thought I would update my blogroll. Check it out on the right column a little ways down ----->I also wanted to say Happy Friday with a video (below) I found on Steve Clayton's blog.Absolutely hilarious!!

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-77065525262032593732009-03-01T22:46:00.004-06:002009-03-01T23:18:41.700-06:00

34 days and 20 hours left until the opening night of Major League Baseball!Outside of the fun little newspaper generator mentioned above, I ran across a number of interesting stories this weekend....The Data Center Pulse Summit presentations and videos have been graciously posted on their site. There are a number of interesting things mentioned here. NetworkWorld also has a nice write-up of the

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-8655482214305433552009-02-28T22:30:00.003-06:002009-02-28T22:45:23.770-06:00

Yesterday I watched a little bit of the Ustream of "Whose Cloud Is It Anyway" - a round table and meetup in Mountain View. The discussion, while interesting, was a little dry. I actually enjoyed tweets from Christofer Hoff and James Urquhart much more.Today I ran across a presentation by Dan Kaminsky - a name I hear a lot (mainly on TWiT I believe). His presentation, below - is titled When

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-34253581362136101762009-02-19T21:51:00.004-06:002009-02-19T23:47:05.752-06:00

I wasn't planning a part 4 to my GreenTech week, but as I mentioned, there is a LOT of Green news out recently. Here are just a few more goodies I ran across today:The Uptime Institute released its Global Green 100 List today. Many familiar names in tech are on the list including all of the companies I mentioned in GreenTech Part 2.GreenBiz.com notes that Green, Tech and GreenTech are on the

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-13679689672461485102009-02-17T23:26:00.006-06:002009-02-18T00:19:51.165-06:00

For part 3 of my GreenTech week, I have a number of miscellaneous links. I'll keep posting Green links as I run across them, but the following items were pretty interesting.EWeek's 10 Things You Need to Know NOW About Green ITComprehensive (as in 45 page) report from Rackable and the BPM (Business Performance Management) Forum: IT Sustainability Imperatives in Internet and Ecommerce Business.

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-81970186053274120352009-02-16T21:49:00.004-06:002009-02-16T22:33:45.244-06:00

Continuing where I left off yesterday with GreenTech..... today I'll cover what the big companies are up to with environmental sustainability, greentech, etc....Cisco:Just a few short weeks back Cisco announced EnergyWise. I haven't had a chance to get 'really' familiar with the technology yet, but it seems pretty cool on the surface. A TMCnet blogger has his thoughts on the Cisco "energy tax"

John Rathhttps://profiles.google.com/114652095293173842962noreply@blogger.com1