Sun Microsystems Chief Architect Andy Bechtolsheim talks about the SunBlade 6000 Blade system, a blade server platform based on SPARC, AMD, and Intel technology. “It’s just like a rack server, except it’s a blade,” Bechtolsheim explains. There’s also an extended discussion of the system’s I/O design.

On July 24 Cisco Systems introduced Cisco VFrame Data Center, a network-driven service orchestration solution for data center management. This 5 minute video provides an overview of the product and its potential uses and benefits.

On July 24, Cisco (CSCO) unveiled its data center strategy, announcing a collection of products to manage networks and data center assets. With its “Data Center 3.0″ initiative, Cisco will focus on a holistic approach to managing increasingly virtualized data centers. In this 3 minute video, Jayshree Ullal, Cisco’s SVP for Data Center Technology, defines Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 and strategy.

Joe Sura, VP of Information Systems for graphics chipmaker Nvidia provides a tour of the industrial strength data center where the company tests its processors, including a high-density installation with 800 processors in four cabinets. Sura also provides a preview of the next-generation facility. “We’re trying to stay state-of-the-art in all areas,” he says.

WHIR TV interviews Bert Armijo, the VP of sales and marketing from 3Tera, about grid hosting technology, utility computing and the company’s new virtual private data center joint offering with Layered Technologies. The interview was conducted at Layered Technologies’ partner conference LTPact 2007.

Howard S. Lichtman of the Human Productivity Lab interviews Hunter Newby, Chief Strategy Officer of telx on the growing ubiquity and future of IP networks at telx’s carrier neutral interconnection facility at 60 Hudson in New York City. Hunter talks about the history of 60 Hudson Street as a communications hub, as well as how the business model of Telx has evolved along with the telecommunications industry.

This video from APC (American Power Conversion) explains how new servers and equipment are creating high-density “hot spots” within data centers, and looks at options for addressing the issue with air flow strategies, including in-row cooling and hot-air containment systems. APC is a major vendor of cooling equipment based in Kingston, Rhode Island.

VeriSign’s global network of nameservers for the .com and .net domains sees 500,000 DNS queries per second during its daily peak, and 10 times that or more during attacks. Scott Courtney is a principal architect in VeriSign’s Architecture and Technology Services, and in this presentation from Google’s Seattle Conference on Scalability (June 23, 2007) he describes how VeriSign has scaled its systems for scalability and resiliency.

YouTube has grown incredibly rapidly despite having had only a handful of people responsible for scaling the site. In this presentation at Google’s Seattle Scalability Conference (June 23, 2007), YouTube engineering manager Cuong Do Cuong discusses hardware scalability, software scalability, and database scalability in supporting the delivery of 100 million videos per day.

How does Google scale and customize its search services for a huge universe of users? Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, gives a one-hour presentation at Google’s Seattle Conference on Scalability on June 23, 2007.