Do You Feel ?

I'm not a professional Musician but I feel this music very well...it talks to my mind and body.....try this...fantastic talent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7gaVvMZ3gY

Heavy BIG phones are really a "smart" phone?

Every phone manufactures try to introduce BIG screen (some bigger than palm) smart phones. It is quite difficult to grip the phone using single hand, therefore there is a high risk of fall down and gets damage to the screen or phone.

Earlier day’s phones were small and without touch screen, if it fell down no harm to phone and on the other hand if it broke can buy new one without burden to the pocket. Most important thing is, basic calling function is perfectly work in those phones, high life time in battery.

But now BIG phones are.....expensive, difficult to manage, short battery life (new business developed with a battery bank which is again bulk battery have to carry with phone and these are not environment friendly). And due to smart phones specially unwanted information or communication encourage and that will heavily impact general life of people.

Does latest technology is really improving quality of life?

According to my knowledge that is  doubtful, even though latest diagnostically methods/equipment invented or medicines implemented still humans life expectation  probability goes down and there is a  trend to people are get sick easily, why is that?

Did we hear people who lived in 100 years back were got this much diseases like cancers? Heart attacks? Genetic disorders? Those days we do not even have the high technological equipment like MRI Scanners or other latest medical equipment’s and this much of Medicines.

Every other industries such as Transportation, Agriculture, using advanced technological tools and techniques, exchange lot of information, process lot of information....finally all these use to create happy and healthier human,

 Unfortunately this is not the realistic picture, the naked truth was these activities led the increase of global carbon footprint, create polluted environment.....finally humans are suicide themselves and other living species, is this called "Development"?

 Hence most people live unhappily- working under stress though technology is available, this is the real situation we are experiencing.

Therefore I believe technology bring down the people's life condition.....

On the other hand  people have more free time with effect from latest technological improvements.....most of the activities can be done online such as banking, shopping, studying, working from home etc.

 Then why people are getting sick than past. How people utilize this spare time? I suppose most of the people spend many time with TV and Internet, those days in Sri Lanka only had  limited TV channels and limited telecasting hours, but now a days 24X7 plenty of channels available to watch and Internet  charges are cheap (Free WIFI access areas) therefore people  used more time for these  unnecessary, time wasting things finally they addicted.

 Now People do not get enough natural exercises (due to online services less walking, due to white collar jobs less outdoor working), especially people love to work in Air-conditioned office environment with comfortable chair. People who do exercise (GYM or Jogging track) only in few minutes or an hour is not enough or balance the life.

Therefore think wisely ......don't allow "Technology" to control yourself...always use technology just as a tool....be active during the day....it will help for peaceful mind...finally you will be getting healthier  and long life.

THINK Twice Before Storing....

"Every day, the world generates 2.5 billion gigabytes of data. Also, 90% of the world’s data was generated within the past 2 years."  According to IBM new Power8 article

What is this "Data"? At least 10% of above 2.5 billion is useful as a "Information". In few years back people had a concern when selecting storage medium based on the importance of the data because storage was costly resource but today digital devices/communication are getting cheap and storage medium is very cheap ( and free storage providers) then unlimited storage was open for everybody as a result people store most of the data without filtering and developed applications to upload data even without knowing the device holder.

It's true with increasing population and new business evolution need more data to generate more/useful information for the purpose, to archive these requirements more storage and processing are mandatory requirement. But I'm sure that most of the data load today is a useless/garbage means it won't use to generate information and even generate information, it  will not add value to the progress of human society or any.

Then somebody can argue why not? we are emotionally happy about storing photos, videos, ect with some freely available sites then we can access anywhere at anytime and forever. -----But actually are they referring those data frequently (after storing most of the time don't have time to at least refer what stored )? e.g if you enjoy some video clip shared by somebody then what is the requirement of keeping it forever even with archiving storage.

All those memories are important ? No, even our brain doesn't keep all these thing in memory because naturally it will erase all the unwanted information/data and keep important, frequently access memories.

I saw some community sites and some big web based companies are adding Terabytes daily and increasing processing power, while struggling with fulfilling  additional cooling, power, etc and some moved Data Centers to the north pole( which is very narrow minded decision and nobody is talking about the harmfulness of it ). As a result we are rapidly towards global warming and heavy pollution. Because all these things needs power ( more processing , more cooling , more communication) and other materials to produce equipment.


There are R & D for power efficient DCs, Processing, Communication and storing methods but it's not developing with considerable speed when compared to the Data growing speed. 

Authorities ( very few ) trying to control this Data center environmental pollution by introducing new laws (  Law enforcement for heat generation of data centers )  which is very positive trend and hope other countries also give attention on this very soon.

Anyway as a Human if we discipline our-self by reduceing unwanted data which is the best method to avoid reduce Storage requirement.

We have to protect this world for future ......Please THINK twice before store anything.

Photo source -'Facebook Update' by Marsel van Oosten

Note :- Facts and Stats of World’s largest data centers - http://storageservers.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/facts-and-stats-of-worlds-largest-data-centers/

Proud as a Sri Lankan....

Even introduce by British people, now it's a global language...and I'm proud because....Dananjaya you beat them same as our cricket.

I'm sure they check many parameters many filters to prove not to award this to Asian but this is the first time they couldn't find a fault because its superb talent. It's not just vocabulary maximum personality, stability, clear are ingredients of your voice, I don't know if anybody feels but I feel it's honest talking add beauty to your style as well. Person who doesn't have a good English skills can understand what you say without missing anything therefore this is a "Magic voice".

And I couldn't identify difference between the general conversation and speech on the stage both are same quality. I noticed very few singers have this while they are talking and singing.

According to me, your presentation and speaking style is better than popular political leaders like Obama,  David Cameron ( They may jealous with you...haa haa )because sometimes I miss what they say but when you speak it's like a mother tongue Sinhalese.

If anybody likes to listen 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk8xNZQ3ZwE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbz2boNSeL0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlelekWnfqY&list=PL81i9R2-lF7AXmrcginQdjAEGn6urlIFZ

Before Jump in to the Cloud

What type of Data are you going to store in Cloud or What type of service are you expecting from Cloud SP?

Do Cloud Service Provider discuss about the Data Protection and Security, What did they tell about Privacy?

Where is the mother company of the Cloud Service Provider located ? Why it's important ?

Do you aware about the FISA(Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 1881a) , 95/46/EC and Safe Harbor List?

Any idea how Data store location is relevant with privacy of Data?

What are the security mechanisms available to protect your privacy in Cloud ?

Please read this white paper  "Report on Cloud Data Regulations: A contribution on how to reduce the compliancy costs of Cross-Border Data Transfers " ( http://asiacloudcomputing.org/images/research/APCC-ACCA_WhitePaper_CloudRegulations_2014-cover.pdf ) before implement anything on cloud.

Do Sri Lankans think about GREEN Data Centers?

After the war we are growing fast, means we have to think differently to overcome new challenges in our journey.

I'm only focusing on how are we full-filling growing DC requirement while optimizing power usage or saving the Environment.

We have to plan how optimize DC power management with coming big DCs like e-NIC, Defense and expansion of existing DCs in every aspect.

What is mean by every aspect ? it means not only cooling...have to thinking about energy-efficient cabling(moving UTP to TwinAx and NA to CN Adapters ), lighting, energy-efficient HW( servers, UPSs- Delta Conversion, Processors, ect ) and Virtualization techniques to optimize HW resource utilization.

Why we should concern about alternate power sources ?

Minimize the Energy cost while reducing the CO2 emission in the rapid Data center expansion is a Global challenge. As a Sri Lankans we should have more concern about the power management since presently we are facing a Power Hungry situation and high prices per unit due to that ( not talking about the route cause ).

We heavily depend on Hydro power and now can't expand any more therefore have to select other alternative sources but carefully. Because this is an Island with high population density therefore we have limited natural resources compared to some big countries. We have limited space for cultivation, Forest reserves to support monsoons, Rivers that should be strictly protected to continue general lifestyle then there is a limitation for Coal/Diesel power plants and not possibilities for Nuclear power.

Challenge - Power generation vs protect Environment

We can't move our DCs to Iceland for free cooling :P but we can think about possible alternatives like solar based power generation or natural air to cool and operate the DCs. I visited IBM DC in Bangalore which is using solar power for DC operations, it should be possible in SL since most of the days shinning sun is a default situation in most of the places in most of the days throughout the year but in Bangalore 80 % of the time the sun isn't shining brightly enough...but THEY TRY.

Sri Lankan public/private organizations have to think about how to absorb global accepted standards (e.g EUCoC ) and technologies (cabling, processor, virtualization, ect ) which save power while increasing processing capabilities then redesign old power-hungry DCs and maximize energy optimization in coming DC designs.

By mixing global standards and our own smartness we can archive modern DCs demand with economical price while protecting the environment.