An example Humor is viral, Organizational Chart post traffic 112,024 views in 6 days

One of my loyal followers sent me the post about a bunch of high tech companies and their org charts.  A bunch of other people reposted this blog post. My friend sent me the post on June 29, but it took me a few days, 6, to get around to thinking how I wanted to post.  Below is a Google search on "organizational chart microsoft google apple."  You can see the posts are all dated June 29 or 30, except mine which is Google #7, posted on July 5.

1. Funny Organizational Chart for Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon ...

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   Jun 30, 2011 – Organizational Chart for Apple Amazon Facebook Google Microsoft and Oracle Funny Organizational Chart for Apple, ...

2. Organizational Chart for Apple Amazon Facebook Google Microsoft

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3. Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle Org Chart

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   Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle Org Chart. By Adron Hall on June 29, 2011. AMZN, MSFT, GOOG, and other org Charts (Click for full ...

4. Apple, MS, Google Etc. Imagined As Fun Org Charts | Cult of Mac

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   Jun 29, 2011 – Posted in Mac, News | Tagged: Apple, google, microsoft, Org chart, tech company org charts | Comment on this article ...

5. Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Org Chart | Obama Pacman

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   Jun 29, 2011 – Funny interpretation of Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Oracle organization charts. Org Chart of Apple, Google, & Microsoft ...

6. Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle Org Chart ...

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   Jun 29, 2011 – Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle Org Chart. June 29th, 2011 § Leave a Comment. AMZN, MSFT, GOOG, and other org Charts ...

7. Organizational Charts- Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Oracle ...

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   Organizational Charts- Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Oracle, and Microsoft. Date Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 1:48PM. Here is a post a a friend shared on ...

So, how much volume did I get to move to position to #7?  Here is a Feedburner report.

This blog post distorts now my normal traffic as you can how the traffic blows away my normal view volume.

An Example of why I blog, gaining insight to how important topics are

I come up with all kinds of ideas and many times I wonder whether others think the ideas are any good.  In the old days, I would test an idea by sharing them with others and see what they had to say.  Now, I can write a blog entry and see the traffic numbers.  Some may say the comment are what people read, but  I don't spend time on the comments as moderating comments takes up just as much time as writing blog entries if not more and is much more frustrating.

Here is an example.  Before going to 7x24 Exchange I saw Domenic Alcaro from Schneider was to present on the idea of Human Error in the Data Center.  I had talked to Domenic on the phone and met him in person for the first time at Uptime Symposium in May.  I asked Domenic if I could get a copy of his presentation before hand to see what he had to say.  This gave me time to think about what he was presenting and how his ideas could be applied.  I posted Domenic's talk here.

Curious I wanted to see what traffic was.  On Feedburner I got these numbers.  The 192 is the peak read on the first day.  Domenic presented to 100 people at 7x24 and I double the reach with one blog entry in one day.

In addition I had another 200 hits, so metrics were about 900 view/clicks.  The raw number isn't as important as how this compares to my other entries.  This one is in top group of interest.

Google search "human error data center" and my entry is #1.

So why blog all this.

1. I want to share these results with Domenic, and it takes me just as much time to write a blog entry as writing an e-mail.
2. It is good once in a while to see what my readers think is important.
3. It explains part of the reason why I am a pervasive blogger, and what I learn from sharing ideas.

Solar Flares/Storms affect on Data Center is not known, an answer with data collection

One of the great talks at 7x24 Exchange was given by Alex Young on a subject few have thought about.

NASA - The Influence of Solar Flares and Solar Storms: Why We Should Care About Space Weather

The Sun produces solar storms in the form of intense radiation and fast moving material. These storms can interact with the Earth to create electric currents in our atmosphere. The study of space weather developed to predict solar storms and understand their impact on our technology. The world's electrical grids-that fundamental technology enabling modern society-are vulnerable to these currents. While most days the sun's impacts are minimal, large solar storms have the potential to have a devastating impact on mission critical systems. This talk will present an overview of Space Weather to help your business begin to prepare for worst-case scenarios.

C. Alex Young, Ph.D., Solar Astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center with ADNET Systems Inc. and the SOHO/STEREO Science Team

Here is a video of Alex discussing the Solar Flare on June 7, 2011.

What are potential affects on the infrastructure is shown here.

So what?  Check out this picture of what happened to a $10 Million power transformer in 1989.

And what is the affect on the electrical grid.

So other than risk of power outage what is the risk to a data center?

Luckily I sat with Alex at the speaker dinner and had a chance to chat much more and another data center executive joined in the discussion on what you could do about a solar storm that could last for days.

One choice we discussed is you could hope the arrival of solar storm is timed when it is night time and the storm strikes the other side of earth, but some storms last for days.  You could turn off the servers which is a strategy used by some satellites, but not a top choice.

So what could we do?  Here was my idea.  Why doesn't NASA notify the data center run by a company that is fanatical about data collection and tell them is the exact time when a solar storm will arrive at the data center site.  The data center operator then shares information back to NASA on error statistics that are potentially caused by the electromagnetic radiation storm.  Keep running this experiment to get data to answer the question of what happens to a data center during an electrical storm.

We moved to the Data Center Social 2.0 event and continued the discussions. One idea the data center executive came up with is can we collect information about the solar storm at the data center.  Alex said yes and pointed to Stanford Sudden Ionosphere Disturbance (SID).

So what is the plan.  The data center executive is going to back circulate the idea which we both agreed there would be two dozen data geeks who instantly jump on the idea.  Start the data collection and sharing with Alex at NASA, so he can start to answer the question of what is the effect on Solar Storms on a data center.

And, we may start an knowledge exchange that will get the data center industry ready for the peak in solar storms in 2013-2014, and answer the question what is the effect of a solar storm on a data center.

IP Network Discovery as a way to manage Data Center Power, joulex

I had a chance to talk Tom Noonan, President & CEO and Tim McCormick with joulex to discuss their data center power management solution.  What caught my eye is Tom's ME background and experience in systems engineering and real-time process control systems.

Tom Noonan
President & CEO

Tom Noonan assumed the role of president and CEO at JouleX in 2010 and also remains a partner at TechOperators, an early-stage investing firm he co-founded in 2008. He is the former chair, president and CEO of Internet Security Systems, which was acquired by IBM for $1.5 billion. Prior to ISS, Noonan held senior positions at Dun and Bradstreet Software, where he was vice president, worldwide marketing.  

After graduating from Georgia Tech with a Mechanical Engineering degree, Noonan joined Rockwell Automation as a systems engineer specializing in real-time process control systems for industrial automation applications. Noonan founded two successful control systems technology companies while residing in Boston: Actuation Electronics, a precision motion-control company and Leapfrog Technologies, a software development environment for real time process control and automation applications.

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Tim McCormick
Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Tim McCormick brings over 25 years of marketing, sales and business development experience in both enterprise security and application software. Prior toJouleX, he was vice president of the Business Solutions Group at IBM Internet Security Systems. He also served as vice president of marketing for Lancope, a leading network behavior analysis and anomaly detection provider, and at ClickFox, a customer behavior intelligence solution provider.

One of the things that impressed me is JouleX uses an IP discovery strategy that allows an agentless approach to discover the inventory of power devices in the data center.  Note the Routers and Switches which are in the center of this diagram.

Working with other systems that has information about IP devices makes the discovery easier by communicating with devices that manage other devices.

This approach allows JouleX to create graphs like this on where the power is being used based on the IP addresses inventoried.

12.5% of Internet use Chrome, but 22.3% of GreenM3 use Chrome

CNET news had an article making the point that Chrome is used by 1 out of 8 Internet users.  But I knew the GreenM3 visitors are different and there was a much higher use of Chrome, 22.3%.

One out of eight people now use Chrome

by Stephen Shankland

Chrome is still the third-ranked browser in terms of worldwide usage, but its share is steadily climbing.

(Credit: Net Applications)

Chrome is now used by one out of every eight people on the Internet, new statistics show, but Microsoft's newest browser is showing signs of steady growth, too.

Specifically, Chrome usage increased from 11.9 percent in April to 12.5 percent in May, according to statistics released today by Net Applications. The company bases its measurements on population-adjusted measurements of visitors to Web sites using its analytics tools.

Here is another interesting part of the GreenM3 visitors.  The #1 browser is Firefox - 30.9%. #2 is IE 28.6%. #3 is Chrome 22.3%, and #4 is Safari with 14.4%.

One year ago IE was #1 with 38.7%, then Firefox and Chrome.

Here is the OS breakdown for the May 2011.  I am surprised the amount of users who are using iPhone, iPad and Android.