What’s next after Dell Via Nano Server?

The XS11-VX8, Dell Via Nano Server is getting lots of news and blog coverage.

My blog works well for google search on “XS11-VX8”.  Giving me #2 in search results, and I only posted my blog entry yesterday even though news has been going on for the past 3 days.

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Energy efficiency is a new focus for many, and much to the  frustration of Intel, AMD, and Server OEMs, not everyone wants a multi-core high cost chip.

So, what’s next?

ARM based servers that can be even higher performance per watt.

Don’t know who has done this, but given the hardware ecosystem, there are people who have experimented with this and Linux OSs.  The popularity of ARM chips in mobile devices is where the knowledge exists for low power solutions.

Why not take a mobile device, an iPhone and turn it into a server.

In fact, talk a game changing move by Apple.  What if Apple shipped a server appliance that had all your music, video, on a home server, running on an ARM chip.

The problem as one friend mentioned with a Netbook type iPhone is the power consumption as low as it is for an iphone, when you are browsing the web you are drawing more power than talking on the iphone, so a netbook use is harder than talking on the phone. So, in the short term, why not ship a server?

What if Apple made the quantum jump from iphone/ipod to iServer 500 GB of your media ready to follow you.  Can Apple create the home media server hub better than Microsoft did with Home Server?  Well, yes.

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Another GreenM3 Google Search Result

It’s been a while since I looked at my web metrics, but I was curious what is driving my site traffic.

Here is an interesting one that makes me wonder how google search works.  google search “water drought in california” and I am #2.

  Results 1 - 10 of about 2,790,000 for water drought in california. (0.23 seconds)

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  1. Drought Conditions

    California is facing the most significant water crisis in its history. After experiencing two years of drought and the driest spring in recorded history, ...
    www.water.ca.gov/drought/ - 26k - Cached - Similar pages -

  2. Green Data Center Blog: California Water Drought Spurs Farmers to ...

    Jan 23, 2009 ... Water is a scarce resource, and besides being critical for data center operations is an essential for farming. MSNBC.com has a post on the ...
    www.greenm3.com/2009/01/california-water-drought-spurs-farmers-to-slash-planting.html - 36k - Cached - Similar pages -

Anyway I am in Cambridge visiting MIT to discuss environmental engineering and data centers with a bunch of professors. If I learn anything interesting hopefully I’ll get permission to blog.

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Finally, GreenM3 Beat My Own TechNet Post for “Green Data Center”

Well, it took me a year, and I finally worked my way up to the top of Google Search for “green data center,” beating my own TechNet article on “Build a Green Data Center.”

I used iwebtools’ google data center search tool to track my results across multiple google data centers.

This has been a fun year, and I’ve learned a lot writing this blog.  One of the things I enjoy most in life is learning new things, so you can count on much more for the next year.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

-Dave Ohara

PS, I do think it is appropriate that Google found my post on ISO 26000 as this is a subject I think will have a big impact on Social Responsibility/Green efforts around the world.

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