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IPvSexy, Yes You to can get there too.
Today we celebrated going live with IPV6 versions of many of our top rated sites. The work was done in advance of our participation in the IPV6 Launch Day. For the uninitiated, IPv6 Launch Day is the...
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DataCentres 2012 – Nice,France
This week I am headed off to France to be a keynote speaker at DataCentres2012. In my opinion this event is the pre-eminent infrastructure and operations conference across the whole of Europe if not...
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Sites and Sounds of DataCentre2012: My Presentation, Day 2, and Final...
Today marked the closing lot of sessions for DataCentres2012 and my keynote session to the attendees. After sitting through a series of product, technology, and industry trend presentations over...
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Budget Challenged States, Data Center Site Selection, and the Dangers of Pay...
Site Selection can be a tricky thing. You spend a ton of time upfront looking for that perfect location. The confluence of dozens of criteria, digging through fiber maps, looking at real estate,...
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AOL’s Data Center Independence Day
Yesterday we celebrated Independence Day here in the United States. It’s a day where we embrace the freedoms we enjoy as a country, look back on where we have come, and celebrate the promise of the...
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The AOL Micro-DC adds new capability
Back in July, I announced AOL’s Data Center Independence Day with the release of our new ‘Micro Data Center’ approach. In that post we highlighted the terrific work that the teams put in to...
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Pointy Elbows, Bags of Beans, and a little anthill excavation…A response to...
I have been following with some interest the series of articles in the New York Times by Jim Glanz. The series premiered on Sunday with an article entitled Power, Pollution and the Internet, which was...
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Insider Redux: Data Barn in a Farm Town
I thought I would start my first post by addressing the second New York Times article first. Why? Because it specifically mentions activities and messages sourced from me at the time when I was...
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On Micro Datacenters, Sandy, Supercomputing 2012, and Coding for...
As everyone has been painfully aware last week the United States saw the devastation caused by the Superstorm Sandy. My original intention was to talk about yet another milestone with our Micro Data...
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Lots of interest in the MicroDC, but do you know what I am getting the most...
Last week I put up a post about how AOL.com has 25% of all traffic now running through our MicroDC infrastructure. There was a great follow up post by James LaPlaine our VP of Operations on his blog...
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2014 The Year Cloud Computing and Internet Services will be taxed. A.K.A Je...
Its one of those times I really hate to be right. As many of you know I have been talking about the various grass roots efforts afoot across many of the Member EU countries to start driving a more...
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IPv6 to IPv4 Translation Made Business Beautiful. Think an Easy, less painful...
I am a lover of simple, efficient, and beautiful things. Ivan Peplnjak of ipSpace gets The Loosebolt’s Oscar Award for Elegance and Simplicity in a Complex Network Application. There may not be a...
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Google Purchase of Deep Earth Mining Equipment in Support of ‘Project Rabbit...
(10/31/2013 – Mountain View, California) – Close examination of Google’s data center construction related purchases has revealed the procurement of large scale deep earth mining equipment. While the...
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Bippity Boppity Boom! The Impact of Enchanted Objects on Development,...
I have been spending a bunch of my time recently thinking through the impact on what David Rose of Ditto Labs and MIT Media Lab romantically calls ‘Enchanted Objects’. What are enchanted objects?...
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Industry Impact : Brothers from Different Mothers and Beyond…
My reading material and video watching habits these past two weeks have brought me some incredible joy and happiness. Why? Because Najam Ahmad of Facebook is finally getting some credit for the...
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On the Move: First Data
Well after a bit of time in stealth I am finally able to announce that I have taken the position of Chief Technology Officer at First Data. After being asked to join the Turn-Around team at AOL and...
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Pointy Elbows, Bags of Beans, and a little anthill excavation…A response to...
I have been following with some interest the series of articles in the New York Times by Jim Glanz. The series premiered on Sunday with an article entitled Power, Pollution and the Internet, which was...
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Insider Redux: Data Barn in a Farm Town
I thought I would start my first post by addressing the second New York Times article first. Why? Because it specifically mentions activities and messages sourced from me at the time when I was...
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On Micro Datacenters, Sandy, Supercomputing 2012, and Coding for...
As everyone has been painfully aware last week the United States saw the devastation caused by the Superstorm Sandy. My original intention was to talk about yet another milestone with our Micro Data...
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Lots of interest in the MicroDC, but do you know what I am getting the most...
Last week I put up a post about how AOL.com has 25% of all traffic now running through our MicroDC infrastructure. There was a great follow up post by James LaPlaine our VP of Operations on his blog...
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