OMG, data center god is identified, clients include Apple, Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft - Scott Noteboom leaves Apple to start his own company

Digital Journal covers the press release Scott  Noteboom leaving Apple to be CEO of Litbit.  Scott has god-like powers serving Apple, Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft.

Noteboom will serve as founder and Chief Executive Officer, bringing to LitBit global experience of having led development and/or operations of many of the world's largest and most innovative data centers, which have served companies including: Apple, Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft.

Noteboom can provide a 10x lower environmental impact.

Our goal is to enable the next billion users of digital technology to emerge with a 10x lower environmental impact than the first billion," said Noteboom.

Keep this date in mind.  It is the birth of Christ.  The enlightenment of Buddha.  A data center god has struck out on his own.

Note: the Litbit service looks like it is just for the emerging markets.  So, those of us in USA and Europe will find it difficult to see the data center powers demonstrated.

LitBit was created to bring next generation converged infrastructure technology into emerging markets that require cleaner environment, greater efficiency and lower economics.

Looks like Scott is in China according to his LinkedIn profile.

Scott NoteboomLast day at Apple, last Friday. Already attacking new gig in China by Sunday. No rest for the jet lagged :-)

Amazon's A9 creates a video that tells the story of what it is like working for the company

Here is a video about Amazon.com's A9.  This video has only 392 views and is a humorous spin on working for A9.

What is most interesting to the data center crowd is their technical operations team.

Technical Operations

Our global team keeps Product Search and other services running 24x7.

 

Infrastructure That Scales.

Search and several related services we support are at the core of the Amazon business: they help customers find the items they want to buy. We are always online and ready to respond. 

Our globally distributed team oversees the smooth-running of all search system operations on Amazon sites in North America, Europe and Asia; our Client Services group provides hands on support for those that depend on A9’s search systems.

Besides our ultra-high availability frontline operations, we plan and scale with the fast-paced growth of search. We look at the data; we determine what services are needed; we implement solutions and we manage deployments. We are responsible for thousands of servers handling 100s of millions customer searches daily.

We stay agile so that we can adapt to unexpected change and exponential growth. We are ready when peak traffic surges, and we understand that yesterday’s record is going to be tomorrow’s average, so we always stay ahead with our infrastructure.

Collaborating across time and space.

The Search Operations team builds and runs the world's largest e-commerce product search. 

Our "follow the sun" operation is based in three locations: Palo Alto, Dublin, and Tokyo. Each of our teams can, during their work hours, address any issue in any locale as soon as it arises, giving it full attention.  

No matter what the volume of traffic, the conditions on the ground, or the intricacy of the systems, our services perform seamlessly for our customers, 24x7.

We manage critical capabilities—high availability, cross-platform, scalable product search and an advertising platform that serves advertisers and publishers alike—for our parent company Amazon and other clients.

What is next for Steve Ballmer? Sports Team, An Island, Ballmerville? (humor)

There is so much news about Ballmer's retirement it is numbing.

Here is a fun discussion.  I live in Redmond, WA, so I am surrounded by Microsoft employees.  I left Microsoft 7 years ago, so I can joke about things like Microsoft. 

What will Ballmer do next with his Billions of dollars?

One of the easy ones is Ballmer will bring an NBA basketball team back to Seattle.  This follows the footsteps of Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder who owns the Portland Trailblazers and Seattle Seahawks.  

Steve Ballmer-led group to buy Sacramento Kings, bring basketball back to Seattle

Rumors are that Alan Mulally was leaving Ford to be CEO of Microsoft.  A job exchange?  Ballmer runs Ford. and Mulally runs Microsoft.

Mulally says no plans to leave Ford early

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BERLIN (AP) — The chief executive of Ford Motor Co. says he has no plans to leave the company early after reports that he might be tipped to take a leading role at software maker Microsoft Corp.

Buy an Island.  Larry Ellison has already done that.

Larry Ellison's Fantasy Island

One of the world's richest people, Larry Ellison is known for his colorful exploits. Now he's tackling one of his most ambitious and expensive projects yet: rejuvenating one of Hawaii's smallest inhabited islands.

One of the funnier ones would be if Steve bought a city.  What city?  How about his hometown of Detroit.  Price is at an all time low.

Ballmer was born in Detroit, the son of Beatrice Dworkin and Frederic Henry Ballmer, a manager at the Ford Motor Company.

And Steve could rename the town Ballmerville.  All computers will run Microsoft software. Only Windows Phones will run.  It will be a utopian society for an executive with 33 years of experience at Microsoft.

Another candidate for future Microsoft CEO, HAL 9000

GigaOm's Barb Darrow does a good job of identifying possible candidates for CEO of Microsoft.

With Ballmer ceding Microsoft’s top job, let the handicapping begin

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Who’s your pick for next Microsoft CEO? Now’s your chance to weigh in…. Insider? Outsider? Young un? Veteran? Sheryl Sandberg? Paul Maritz? Steven Sinofsky? Satya Nadella? Who?

It is phenomenally complex to run a company than size of Microsoft.  With the one million servers Microsoft has imagine if HAL 9000 could be set up to be the CEO running on let's say 10,000 servers.

Can you imagine if a CEO was replaced by HAL 9000.

HAL's capabilities, like all the technology in 2001, were based on the speculation of respected scientists. Marvin Minsky, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and one of the most influential researchers in the field, was an adviser on the film set.^[18] In the mid-1960s, many computer scientists in the field of AI were optimistic that machines with HAL's capabilities would exist within a few decades. For example, AI pioneer Herbert A. Simon at Carnegie Mellon University, had predicted in 1965 that "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do",^[19] the overarching premise being that the issue was one of computational speed (which was predicted to increase) rather than principle.

If you don't like the HAL 9000 persona, you can use the Wizard of Oz version.

Following Eric Schmidt's fact check idea, shows Al Gore is either Blind or just trying to make his point

Al Gore spoke at the "How Green is Internet?" event at Google, and at the 1:10 mark he says that he doesn't see the word "climate" in the word cloud for the event.  Which then gets Al Gore launching into how important the climate is.

During Eric Schmidt's talk he starts out saying how great Google is because "anybody says something slightly off ... you check. What a way to live your life. ... someone says something, and you say oh that's kind of a surprise let me check and see if that is true."

Al Gore starts his talk looking for a way to say how people don't pay attention to climate.  Eric Schmidt starts his talk with the culture of questioning what others say.

Below is the word cloud that Al Gore refers to.  In alphabetic order right after change and before cost is the word "climate".  Climate is small, and Al Gore says it may be too small to see.  Al said he couldn't see it.  The list is alphabetical order, not random.

This illustrates a point that Eric Schmidt is to imagine what could happen with climate change if people had a culture to check the facts others say.

Some people are big Al Gore fans.  I think I am more of a fan of facts and data. :-)  I can see "climate" pretty clearly in the above graphic.  How many attendees or watchers of Al Gore's video would accept as a fact that "climate" was missing or too small to read.