If you happen to be following the news around Digital Realty Trust you may have seen the recent announcement of our Pod Architecture Services (PAS) offering. Although the response has been deafening there seems to be a lot of questions and confusion around what it is, what it is not, and what this ultimately means [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Changing An Industry of Cottage Industries
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Computing, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, tagged Cloud infrastructure, Cottage Industry, Data Center, Information Sub station, PAS, Pod Architecture, POD Architecture Services on August 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Cloud Politic – How Regulation, Taxes, and National Borders are shaping the infrastructure of the cloud
Posted in Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Data Center Industry, Data Center Regulation, Google Data Centers, Microsoft Data Centers, Modular Data Center, tagged Azure, Canada, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Cloud Compute, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services, Google, Microsoft, Patriot Act, Waxman-Markey bill, Yahoo on August 6, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Most people think of ‘the cloud’ as a technical place defined by technology, the innovation of software leveraged across a scale of immense proportions and ultimately a belief that its decisions are guided by some kind of altruistic technical meritocracy. At some levels that is true on others one needs to remember that the ‘cloud’ [...]
