Environment

First International IEEE workshop on Cloud Computing

This is a great place to not only exchange ideas but also get the bright minds together to build Cloud infrastructures for the NGCC. There are many topics which I personally see of great interest myself. Some of the authors are known to me [including the Chair] and I am keen to meet the rest.
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Tales from Uganda - WiMAX/Virtualization project

Pictures I took and animotized for you guys here. The project ends in 2010 and it has been good to have contributed to the project. These pics are from 2006/2007. I’ll post 2007/2008 pics soon.

SAS spends $70 Mn for a Cloud facility; Could they have done it cheaper?

I certainly think so. I am building prototypes with some researchers across the planet and also talking to some NGDC builders to see what they are spending in building the containerized “DC-in-a-box”.
Key is to build a NGDC-in-a-box with the following in mind:
- High-density (packed volumes should be efficient)
- Portability and transportability
- Pluggability (move containers across [...]

2020: World-wide Data Center Crisis?

We wrote an IEEE paper where I will be talking about it in June. We are proposing an extensible architecture in which we propose to connect the APIs (Power/MDM APIs, Data Center APIs and Consumption-based Open Standards API etc) through and through the whole value chain. With more and more Data Centers being built and [...]

IEEE Vision Paper on “Smart Metering the Clouds”; Attend the workshop in The Netherlands

We are proud to have delivered our first research paper and have it accepted by the IEEE council. This paper, which will soon be published by the IEEE, is about CSER and about energy evangelism. We focus and propose our model that revolves around two spectrums. Spectrum one is about the advanced metering techniques that [...]

Green Grid paper: Data Center Efficiency using Virtualization

The paper is written by VMware, so don’t be surprised if you only see VMware’s name in it.

Virtualization is a mature technology that works well and is here to stay. It saves energy and money in
your utility bill, increases computing throughput, frees up fl oor space, and facilitates load migration and
disaster recovery. The virtualization savings [...]

Rise of Scotland: Cloud Computing Hub to run on tidal power

You can’t get any greener than this. Use water energy to run those CPU cycles inside the data center. I wonder how they are working on the conservation/preservation of consumed power and offsets of it such as warmth etc. Will they sequester and use the emitted energy for other local purposes such as empowering [start [...]

Global Warming could choke our oceans for 100,000 years!

I have covered some alarming data in the past on my blog. Once in a while a “true reminder” like this always helps. I have spoken about Global Warming and CO2 emissions [one video is there on the blog to your right] on many occasions, both nationally and internationally. We really have to realize that [...]

2009: An important year for Apple and Cloud Computing?

Apple is plagued by several challenges. Steve Jobs’ deteriorating health, his possible announcement of retirement in the offing and an arrival to the state-of-flux after having dished out some really cool devices in the past couple of years. I strongly believe that Apple has the stage set to be the true underdog on Cloud Computing, [...]

IBM helps Highmark with Green Data Center

IBM’s technologies and services are aimed at helping clients sharply reduce data center energy consumption. The data center is an area of information technology (IT) that can reap substantial and lasting benefits by using ‘greener’ technology. IBM’s analysis of Highmark’s data center included a data center energy efficiency assessment and a thermal analysis using IBM’s [...]