Posts Tagged ‘efficiency’

James Hamilton: Data center infrastructure innovation

Summary from James’ keynote talk at Velocity 2010 Pace of Innovation – Datacenter pace of innovation is increasing.  The high focus on infrastructure innovation is driving down the cost, increasing reliability and reducing resource consumption which ultimate drives down cost. Where does the money go ? 54% on servers, 8% on networking, 21% on power [...]

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Understanding Cloud computing efficiency

Picking a cloud service at times, unfortunately,  is far more complex  than picking up a brand new car. I remember how torn I was between a honda-hybrid, which came with some tax rebates and a carpool sticker and a non-hybrid one which was significantly cheaper. Understanding the short term and long term benefits is the [...]

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