Yahoo may have just sent a cold chill across the data center industry at large and begun a stifling of data center innovation. In a May 3, 2012 article, Forbes did a quick and dirty analysis on the patent wars between Facebook and Yahoo. It’s a quick read but shines an interesting light on the [...]
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Patent Wars may Chill Data Center Innovation
Posted in Data Center Industry, Data Center Processes, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Data Center Technologies, Green IT, Open Source Data Centers, Data Center Patents, Technology Leadership, Cloud Infrastructure, Yahoo, Open Compute Project, tagged Michael Manos, Yahoo, open compute project, facebook, data center innovation, patent wars, OCP, Glasnost on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Open Sourcing our Operational Scale Tools–Meet Trigger
Posted in AOL, AOL Data Centers, AOL Open Source, Cloud Operations, Infrastructure, Michael Manos, Open Source Data Centers, tagged AOL, AOL Open Source, Cloud Computing, Network Tools, Open Source, Scale Computing, SocketStream, Trigger on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Not that long ago we made a decision to begin Open Sourcing some of our internal products and tools into the community at large. There are some really interesting benefits for open sourcing some of these internally developed tools and as a company we begun to do some very interesting work in this space. Some [...]
Open Source Data Center Initiative
Posted in Carbon Cap and Trade, Chiller Side Chats, Cloud Computing, container data center, Data Center Contracts, Data Center Industry, Data Center Metrics, Data Center Processes, Data Center Regulation, Data Center Site Selection, Green Grid, Green IT, Modular Data Center, Open Source Data Centers, Uptime Institute, tagged Data Center Pulse, data centers, Green Grid, Linux, Open Source Data Center Initiative, Uptime Institute on March 3, 2010 | 12 Comments »
There are many in the data center industry that have repeatedly called for change in this community of ours. Change in technology, change in priorities, Change for the future. Over the years we have seen those changes come very slowly and while they are starting to move a little faster now, (primarily due to the [...]
