Go Daddy Ad Drives Huge Traffic Spike
Data from content delivery provider Akamai shows an enormous spike in Internet traffic late in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s Super Bowl, and domain registrar Go Daddy says the burst of traffic was tied to its ad spot during the two-minute warning. That’s the moment at which Akamai’s Net Usage Index surged to nearly double its highest previous level during the big game. Go Daddy has become one of the most recognized advertisers in recent Super Bowls with its trademark “edgy” commercials.
Internap Shares Jump on Investor Stake
Shares of Internap Network Services (INAP) are higher this morning, apparently due to growing interest in the company’s shares in investment funds.
A Closer Look at CloudSwitch
We’ve previously written about CloudSwitch , a Boston-area startup that has raised $15 million to develop a software appliance to simplify the deployment of cloud computing applications.
Google’s Mystery Domain, IPv6 Traffic Spike
Google (GOOG) drives an enormous amount of traffic around the Internet – so much so that changes in its network gain attention. Here are several examples from this week.
Avatar, Hollywood and the Data Center
A look at some of the high-density server and networking gear inside the Weta Digital data center used to render the animation for the new James Cameron movie “Avatar.” Back in December we shared some details about the powerhouse data center at Weta Digital , which is responsible for the digital effect featured in the 3D sci-fi epic ”Avatar.” The stunning visual effects produced at Weta have won several awards in past years and Avatar is nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Art Direction, Cinematography, and Visual Effects. As the movie continues to generate awards and attention, IT vendors are sharing details of how their systems played a role in creating “Avatar.” Last week NetApp outlined details of how its storage systems helped reduce Weta’s data management overhead by 95 percent and increased storage price-to-performance ratio by 40 percent.
Cisco OTV: Virtually Spanning Data Centers
In the beginning, there were text files. As the Internet evolved, the files moving across the network grew in size – first photos, then videos, then widgets.
Data Center Haiku Contest
Look what Jonathan Schwartz has wrought! By resigning on Twitter via a haiku tweet, the former Sun Microsystems president have focused fresh attention on haiku , the three-line Japanese poetry form. This has inspired the folks at newScale to start a Data Center Haiku Contest for those inspired to pan gems such as: Be strong, blade server Stay in your rack and burn hot You are beautiful The contest runs through Feb. 15, and you can submit via Twitter (@CarolDirig ) or by emailing your entry to marketing@newscale.com . The winner receives a coffee mug emblazoned with their winning data center haiku.
Bick Group Acquires Cloud Consultants
Data center design/build firm Bick Group has announced the acquisition of Blue Mountain Labs (BML), a consulting firm focused on the adoption of cloud computing within enterprise and government organizations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. BML was founded by David Linthicum, a well known thought leader in the cloud computing and service oriented architecture (SOA) space, and the author of the best selling cloud computing book Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in your Enterprise…a Step-by-Step Guide .
Scientists Offered Free Access to Azure Cloud
Microsoft is giving scientists and researchers supported by the National Science Foundation free access to its Azure cloud computing platform for three years.
HPC Customers Get a Cloud Computing Option
Six months after launching its Penguin on Demand (POD) cloud computing service, high-performance Linux cluster provider Penguin Computing said up to 200 of its 2,000-strong customer base are using its on-demand offering, including some new customer wins in the life-sciences sector. POD is a complete high-performance computing (HPC) system in the cloud, but no virtualization technology is used because Penguin wanted to offer each of its HPC customers dedicated servers to ensure optimum performance
Virginia, NC Battle for Microsoft Data Center
Will dozens of these Microsoft data center containers soon be filling a facility in Virginia or North Carolina? The two states are battling for the project.
Video: Inside IBM’s North Carolina Data Center
IBM has published a video offering a closer look at the operations of its $360 million data center at IBM’s Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus in North Carolina, where Big Blue has implemented its latest energy efficient design features. IBM, which owns or operates more than 450 data centers worldwide, has submitted the facility for Gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating from the U.S
Should You Build or Outsource Your Data Center?
Jeff Hinkle is a data center industry veteran and president and owner of Global Net Access , AtlantaNAP and NetDepot . JEFF HINKLE AtlantaNAP The modern-day IT executive has become an integral part of any business
Data Center Jobs: Columbia University
At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have several new job listings from Columbia University , which is seeking a Lead Deployment Analyst and a Supervisor of Computer Operations . The Lead Deployment Analyst will will analyze and design enterprise wide deployment tools and processes to support business applications, while the Supervisor of Computer Operations will manage and oversee TIO support activities in a 24
IBM Opens Cloud Data Center in Research Triangle
The interior of the $360 million new IBM data center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. IBM.com has a new home. Big Blue’s web site now resides in a huge new cloud computing data center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, where IBM is investing $362 million to build out more than 100,000 square feet of data center space. The company held a ceremony Thursday to mark the opening of the first phase of data center space. The new facility also houses the US Open web site for the United States Golf Association (USGA), as well as a cloud computing application that allows students from a high school in Durham to access course materials and software from North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and NC State.
Layered Tech Gets $20M in Equity Funding
Layered Technologies has received a $20 million equity investment from an investor group led by Accel-KKR, which will help fund growth initiatives for the Texas hosting and IT infrastructure provider, which could include acquisitions. Accel-KKR, a private equity firm, was joined in the funding by Layered Tech’s two primary existing investors, Enhanced Equity Fund, L.P., and Pangloss International Layered Tech, which is based in Plano, said the funding will be used for continued growth and expansion of its dedicated hosting, managed services and cloud computing offerings, as well as enhancing support of its existing customer base. Layered Tech has a track record of moving quickly to put its funding to work.
Paetec Plans Data Center Near Boston
ISP and hosting provider PAETEC Holding Corp. (PAET) has announced plans for a 92,700 square foot data center in Andover, Mass., north of of Boston. PAETEC says the Andover facility will be the first step in a national expansion of its data center network, which currently includes sites in Bethlehem, Pa. and Conshohocken, Pa. The Andover center is scheduled to open in June 2010
Report: Yahoo Hosting Unit No Longer for Sale
Back in September, when Yahoo was intensifying its efforts to sell assets and refocus its business, there were reports that the company was trying to sell its Yahoo Small Business web hosting unit for between $350 million and $500 million. Apparently few buyers surfaced, and this week DailyFinance reported that Yahoo has called off the sale effort and will hold onto its hosting business. ”We are focused on competing and winning in Yahoo Small Business,” Yahoo’s Brian Nelson told the news site
The Green Grid Plans More Online Tools
A screen shot from a PUE calculator that will soon be released by The Green Grid. The Green Grid said today that it will release more online tools to build upon the group’s introduction of free cooling tools in 2009. The new calculators will be available by the end of March, and were announced during the Third Annual Green Grid Technical Forum in San Jose, Calif., where the group also outlined the availability of several educational resources.
Cloud Monitoring Services: A Resource Guide
The cloud computing market has spawned an ecosystem of third parties that provide tools that monitor the performance of your hosted apps in the cloud, or keep a watch over public clouds (notably Amazon EC2) for breaks in service-level agreements. Some cloud computing monitoring services provide a single dashboard for SysAdmins to check the status of all their different clouds, whether public or private
Data from content delivery provider Akamai shows an enormous spike in Internet traffic late in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s Super Bowl, and domain registrar Go Daddy says the burst of traffic was tied to its ad spot during the two-minute warning. That’s the moment at which Akamai’s Net Usage Index surged to nearly double its highest previous level during the big game. Go Daddy has become one of the most recognized advertisers in recent Super Bowls with its trademark “edgy” commercials.
Shares of Internap Network Services (INAP) are higher this morning, apparently due to growing interest in the company’s shares in investment funds.
We’ve previously written about CloudSwitch , a Boston-area startup that has raised $15 million to develop a software appliance to simplify the deployment of cloud computing applications.
Google (GOOG) drives an enormous amount of traffic around the Internet – so much so that changes in its network gain attention. Here are several examples from this week.
A look at some of the high-density server and networking gear inside the Weta Digital data center used to render the animation for the new James Cameron movie “Avatar.” Back in December we shared some details about the powerhouse data center at Weta Digital , which is responsible for the digital effect featured in the 3D sci-fi epic ”Avatar.” The stunning visual effects produced at Weta have won several awards in past years and Avatar is nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Art Direction, Cinematography, and Visual Effects. As the movie continues to generate awards and attention, IT vendors are sharing details of how their systems played a role in creating “Avatar.” Last week NetApp outlined details of how its storage systems helped reduce Weta’s data management overhead by 95 percent and increased storage price-to-performance ratio by 40 percent.
In the beginning, there were text files. As the Internet evolved, the files moving across the network grew in size – first photos, then videos, then widgets.
Look what Jonathan Schwartz has wrought! By resigning on Twitter via a haiku tweet, the former Sun Microsystems president have focused fresh attention on haiku , the three-line Japanese poetry form. This has inspired the folks at newScale to start a Data Center Haiku Contest for those inspired to pan gems such as: Be strong, blade server Stay in your rack and burn hot You are beautiful The contest runs through Feb. 15, and you can submit via Twitter (@CarolDirig ) or by emailing your entry to marketing@newscale.com . The winner receives a coffee mug emblazoned with their winning data center haiku.
Data center design/build firm Bick Group has announced the acquisition of Blue Mountain Labs (BML), a consulting firm focused on the adoption of cloud computing within enterprise and government organizations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. BML was founded by David Linthicum, a well known thought leader in the cloud computing and service oriented architecture (SOA) space, and the author of the best selling cloud computing book Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in your Enterprise…a Step-by-Step Guide .
Microsoft is giving scientists and researchers supported by the National Science Foundation free access to its Azure cloud computing platform for three years.
Six months after launching its Penguin on Demand (POD) cloud computing service, high-performance Linux cluster provider Penguin Computing said up to 200 of its 2,000-strong customer base are using its on-demand offering, including some new customer wins in the life-sciences sector. POD is a complete high-performance computing (HPC) system in the cloud, but no virtualization technology is used because Penguin wanted to offer each of its HPC customers dedicated servers to ensure optimum performance
