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Find your perfect escape from your everyday life while satisfying your need for adventure. Whether you're looking for solitude or socialization on your next vacation, we've got great ideas for your upcoming trip. Choose what you'd like to do, from fishing to skiing, hiking to horseback riding and we'll help you decide how to get there. Our travel packages offer a wide range of activities across a multitude of destinations - which means you're guaranteed to find the perfect escape from your everyday life on your next vacation.
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Pastor Builds Thriving Church On Diversity
When the Rev. Cecil Williams was a child, one of his favorite games was "funeral."
He and his six siblings would kill cockroaches, round up decaying rats and gather stiff birds to provide them with proper burials. Williams always played the role of pastor.
"We were having two or three funerals every day," he remembers with a laugh.
There was a twist, though. Unlike most services in his hometown of San Angelo, Texas, Williams' makebelieve funerals were integrated.
He would assign each of his brothers and sisters a race - red, yellow, white or black. Together, they would sing hymns, pray and give their insect or rodent friends a proper send-off.
From such humble beginnings, Williams went on to become a preacher of national stature. His goal is to create a model that churches of all denominations can use to integrate their congregations.
He teaches by example. Williams ministers to San Francisco's largest congregation - nearly 6,000 homeless people, prostitutes, drug addicts, gang members, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, who crowd into Glide Memorial United Methodist Church every day for free meals, self-help classes, sermons and inspiration.
Alongside society's castoffs sit some of the city's wealthiest residents, most powerful politicians and Hollywood stars.
His "feel good" gospel cum revival services on Sundays have standing room only. Some of the celebrities joining in the whooping and hollering and singing and dancing have included poet Maya Angelou, comedian Bill Cosby, talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey and John F. Kennedy Jr.
Even President Clinton has attended Williams' Sunday sermons. He was so impressed that he called Williams on Thanksgiving to congratulate him and his army of 1,300 volunteers on the hard work they would do that day to feed 6,500 meals to the city's down-and-out.
For those reasons and more, these are heady days for a man who moved to the West Coast 32 years ago to take over a 35-member, all-white, middle-class Methodist congregation in the middle of a deteriorating neighborhood.
The church's members didn't take well to Williams' egalitarian views, but he defied their prejudice and invited in the destitute from the strip clubs, X-rated movie theaters and flop houses that surrounded them in the city's infamous Tenderloin.
Within a month, he was involved in a battle to protect prostitutes from police brutality and became active in the homosexual community. Eventually he began offering classes to help people kick drug and alcohol habits.
Those grew to include 37 programs teaching everything from computers to anger management.
Glide eventually became the city's most comprehensive nonprofit provider of human services, feeding meals to 3,500 people who every day form a line that snakes around the block. Adding to the services it offers, Glide will break ground in the fall for a $9 million homeless shelter next door.
Williams, now 66, hopes his empire will one day become a model and training center for other churches, where ministers, priests and rabbis can learn to promote the diversity and tolerance he thinks is essential to the nation's - and the church's - survival.
"It seems to me that Sunday morning is still the most segregated hour in America," Williams said. "That really does speak against what the church should be doing.
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Wind Capacity Adds Could Fall 5 GW if PTC Not Extended
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory analysis of the production tax credit (PTC) shows that it has been critical to the development of the wind power industry and the deployment of wind generation in the United States.
Implications of a PTC Extension on US Wind Deployment was recently released.
From 2006 to 2012, wind power capacity has grown at an average annual rate of about 30 percent, and the costs of new installed wind have dropped by 22 percent. Components supplied for wind turbines from domestic manufacturers have risen to more than 70 percent of equipment installed at US wind farms, up from 25 percent in 2006.
The PTC provides a tax credit for every unit of energy produced by a qualifying facility for the first 10 years of commercial operation.
The study found:
- Under a scenario in which the production tax credit is not extended and all other policies remain unchanged — and in which, as anticipated, there is little to no growth for electricity in the US — wind capacity additions are projected to fall to between 3 GW and 5 GW per year from 2013 through 2020.
- Reduced domestic wind power deployment is likely to have a direct and negative effect on US-based wind turbine manufacturing production and employment.
- Production tax credit extension options that would ramp down and end by 2022 appear to be insufficient to support recent levels of deployment.
- Of the scenarios considered in the report, extending the production tax credit at its historical level could provide the best opportunity to sustain strong US wind energy installation and domestic manufacturing.
The Senate has passed a two-year extension of the PTC, retroactive to January, but the House has not yet taken up the legislation.
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CARLSBAD, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/03/12 -- MaintenanceNet, Inc., the leading provider of product and service annuity solutions, has introduced new guidelines that offer manufacturers and their channel partners insight into the value of leveraging installed base data to build stronger service renewal programs that fuel substantial new recurring revenue streams. The information is detailed in a new white paper titled "Why Service Sales Programs Fail," which is now available at no charge on the MaintenanceNet website at http://www.maintenancenet.com/the-value-of-installed-based-data-white-paper.
Installed base data is information companies already have about their customers, encompassing everything from contact information, to purchase and transaction history, to more granular details such as contract expiration dates, product serial numbers and even the last date and mode of communication a customer had with a company.
The premise behind the white paper is that all of this data offers a wealth of information on how an organization can better serve customer needs while also driving revenue growth through more effective service contract sales. Although service and maintenance contracts are attached to nearly all products sold in the IT sector, when these contracts come up for renewal, nearly one third of the $60 billion market opportunity goes untapped.
"The reason service sales programs fail is simple -- the time and sales costs associated with tracking and managing installed base data can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, most service sales solutions on the market focus solely on providing a nice user interface, and do nothing to connect the isolated data repositories or resolve the data issues that present obstacles to renewal sales," said Kelly Crothers, vice president of marketing for MaintenanceNet. "With a single source of truth, manufacturers and their channel partners can turn this data into millions of dollars in new revenue streams each quarter."
When quality data serves as the backbone of service renewal initiatives, sales teams can more effectively monitor service expirations and manage product and service life cycles. In addition, they can automate tedious tasks to significantly reduce the cost of sale, and turn service sales into a low-touch or even no-touch process, Crothers added.
For more information on MaintenanceNet and its complete line of product and service annuity solutions, visit www.maintenancenet.com.
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MaintenanceNet empowers the world's leading manufacturers and their channel partners to expand the scope and success of their service sales initiatives. The company has delivered billions of dollars in service revenues, while also improving overall customer satisfaction and retention for the businesses it serves. The key to MaintenanceNet's success is its proficiency in turning incomplete or inaccurate customer data into actionable business intelligence that drives revenue and profits for manufacturers. MaintenanceNet's Service360 cloud-based platform and Auto Quote solution expedites and automates sales processes, and provides a channel-friendly approach to service quoting, ordering and renewing. For more information, visit www.maintenancenet.com or call 866-699-7212.
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Organizations that are seeking to deploy cloud-based business models for their infrastructure face unique capacity management challenges. This article will review these challenges to enable cloud providers, either public or private, to avoid the pitfalls of improper capacity management. While the article discusses both types of clouds, the needs of private cloud providers will be especially highlighted due to the unique challenges they face with this business model.
IT Becomes a Business within a Business
For years, we have been hearing "IT must behave more like a business." A hypervisor's ability to deliver utility computing moves this vision closer to reality. Using hypervisors to deploy an infrastructure cloud fundamentally changes the relationship between IT and their customers. Application portability combined with competing cloud offerings from companies like Amazon change the dynamic between application owners and corporate IT. If end users can't explicitly move their applications between cloud providers, they can at least compare prices and service levels between providers. Right or wrong, Amazon S3 becomes a measuring stick in price, performance and service for IT organizations.
To deliver an Amazon S3 experience requires significant retooling in IT processes. Capacity management is one of the areas requiring retooling. Virtualization alone causes changes to capacity management (for more information, see http://www.vkernel.com/solutions/capacity-planning). But virtualization deployed as an infrastructure cloud adds nuances to the capacity management problem. Capacity management for cloud providers is unique for the following five reasons:
- Capacity monitoring in addition to planning
- Chargeback is mandatory
- Efficiency drives return on assets
- Tenant reporting requirements are unique
- Optimization is a value add
Variable Demand Drives Criticality of Capacity Monitoring
Cloud deployments of virtualization technology introduce many operational changes for IT administrators. The first is a change in the amount of control IT has over the loads deployed on their hardware. With cloud deployments, either public or private, end users deploy applications using self-service portals as they see fit, load them as they desire and consume resources at whatever pace they need.
Hence, unlike the careful P2V sizing process undertaken for the first wave of virtualization where applications are sized, scheduled and deployed in a methodical manner, clouds have no careful sizing or timing that the cloud operator is aware of. Applications of unknown sizes appear, consume resources, and may just as quickly disappear. Without adequate capacity, these applications will fail to perform to customer expectations. Without real-time capacity monitoring, application deployment can dramatically impact other applications.
Hence capacity planning, a well-thought-out process for making sure there is sufficient capacity en masse, must be supplemented with capacity monitoring. Capacity monitoring is a real-time process that takes raw performance and utilization data and transforms it into actionable information concerning system-level capacity requirements. Without capacity monitoring, system administrators are left to interpret real-time utilization metrics from individual virtual machines. VKernel's research has shown that properly monitoring capacity in real time involves collecting over 20 metrics per VM at least 10 times per hour, and keeping this information for at least 30 days. A 100 VM environment would require about 17 million data points to accurately monitor capacity in the environment. This capacity monitoring, however, is a must-have to augment standard capacity planning and prevent performance issues from impacting the cloud.
Chargeback Matters
For any cloud where resources can be deployed in a self-service fashion, charging back for resources becomes a necessity. Without a method to chargeback or show back, self-service clouds would quickly find themselves at capacity since resources are essentially free.
But chargeback is a tricky area. For commercial cloud and private cloud operators, charging back for allocated resources is fairly straightforward. But, since the private chargeback operator is simply shifting costs insides the company and not impacting the bottom line, the motivations for chargeback are different. The public cloud operator is indifferent to allocated resources and utilized resources. If the public cloud operator is charging for an allocated resource pool, they make money. In fact, the higher the ratio between allocated and utilized, the more over allocation of resources is possible and the higher the profit margins. For private cloud operators, however, the goal is to actually lower the costs for the company. Hence, the private cloud operator wants the allocated resource usage to be very close to actual usage to drive resource efficiency. Highlighting the difference between actual resource usage and allocated resource usage shows internal business units the amount of corporate resources they are wasting. This motivation can then be used to right size environments and reduce overall IT spend.
While chargeback is important, cloud operators need to be mindful of what they charge. For public operators, there are competitive pressures. For private operators, charging provides a way to directly compare internal IT costs vs. external costs such as Amazon.
Is a simple $/CPU comparison between internal clouds and Amazon a fair comparison? Does Amazon contain the same level of compliance? Of control? Is the company comfortable with data outside the company firewall?
More important, chargeback for private cloud operators is primarily a means to minimize the difference between allocated and utilized resources to drive up efficiencies and VM densities. Chargeback or showback becomes a control mechanism as opposed to an actual financial transfer mechanism. Hence the rate of chargeback is not as important as the difference between allocated and actual usage.
Even here, the challenges for private cloud operators are greater. Let's assume a private cloud operator hosts 200 internal customers. Assume each of these internal customers is wasting 50% of their resource allocation. On an individual basis, the absolute value of the wasted resources may be insignificant. But across all 200 customers, the magnitude of the IT spend could be quite large. The greater good theory for IT would require that IT actually reduce resource usage for all the internal customers to claim additional savings for the company despite what the internal customers want. Private cloud operators must operate not only for their internal customers' needs, but also for the company's needs.
Setting rates for chargeback is the final tricky area for cloud operators. For a public cloud operator, the rate needs to be competitive, provide some profit margin and match customer's value. Easy enough. But what about private cloud operators? Once again, being a private operator makes things difficult. What are the rates for chargeback for a private cloud operator? Is the goal to set rates to make an internal profit when 50% of the VMs slots are filled? 75%? But if the internal cost center is making a profit, is that the right thing to do from a budgeting standpoint? Is the goal cost reclamation or efficiency?
The net of this is that for cloud operators, chargeback is critical. For private cloud operators, chargeback's purpose needs to be clearly defined to align IT not only with their customer's goals, but also the broader corporate goals.
Capacity Planning Impacts Revenue and Cost
Customers expecting to use a cloud service have high expectations with regards to time to deploy a service. For public clouds, this expectation will be a nearly instant deployment after the service request. Private cloud operators may not have quite an instantaneous expectation for their customers. Either way, the "acceptable" wait time of several weeks to deploy a new server is gone. Immediate is the word, not days.
To enable this immediate capability, sufficient capacity must be on hand to deploy new virtual machines based on both steady state and unexpected increases in demands. To meet this accelerated time duration, a high degree of capacity planning must take place to predict future capacity needs ahead of demand and allow for the slower process of procuring and installing physical servers, networks and storage.
It's easy to meet rapid deployment expectations by over procuring hardware. The danger here is that over procurement impacts cash flows and profitability for a cloud. Having large amounts of depreciating assets sitting around is not a sound business strategy. If these assets are plugged in and configured, the added power costs worsen an already bad situation. Under procuring hardware is just as bad since cloud operators will be unable to meet customer needs should their systems not have available capacity. Hence the goal is to have a solid understanding of consumption and then apply a safety factor to allow for unexpected demand.
Understanding capacity needs across the entire IT infrastructure is important. But it's just as important to understand where there are available VM slots for the best placement of VMs from a performance and a capacity standpoint. Utilizing available VM slot reporting ensures the performance of the running VMs and increases the VM density per host, which is critical to achieving a high return on assets.
Capacity planning is critical to cloud operators to generate a high return on assets while also meeting customer demand for near instantaneous deployment requests.
Tenant Reporting
With a standard virtualized environment, the IT organization may report on environment status to a few senior IT leaders. Not so with an infrastructure cloud. For public clouds and private clouds, there is a greater expectation of visibility into the environment. Reporting for cloud tenants could involve availability, resource allocation, resource utilization, current charges, and pricing plan. The amount of information revealed to a customer could depend on the business philosophy or type of cloud. For a private cloud, revealing differences between allocated resources and utilized resources and the savings a customer could achieve by reducing their resources allocation makes sense for a company trying to save money. For a public cloud provider, however, suggesting ways to reduce resource allocations may not be in the provider's interest.
Beyond questions around what type of information to provide is the manner in which information is provided. For public cloud operators, online portals are most likely the reporting distribution mechanism of choice. For private clouds, however, information needs to flow seamlessly into the enterprises existing reporting infrastructure. This could involve connections with SharePoint, with IT service management frameworks, internal portals, or simple email distribution of reports on an ongoing basis.
Optimization Is a Value Add
Many times, when virtual machines are first deployed, they are over allocated CPU, memory and storage. In a cloud deployment, this over allocation does not cost the cloud operator revenue. In fact, just the opposite occurs. The cloud operator deploys the requested resources, but despite not being used, the cloud operator still collects the revenue. As discussed earlier, the cloud operator can decide whether to reveal this to the tenant or not.
While the cloud operator may not care about wasted resources to an application, the end customer does as does the firm's CFO. Decreasing requested CPU, memory and storage reduces monthly tenant costs. Hence, optimization becomes an optional value-add service for the provider to offer tenants to reduce spending. This would be the equivalent of your cell phone company contacting you to suggest a lower monthly plan. While it lowers the monthly revenue of the cloud operator, it dramatically improves customer loyalty.
Because of the increased need for chargeback, monitoring, capacity planning, and reporting, capacity management takes on added urgency for cloud operators. Capacity management performed correctly enables cloud operators to maximize compute cycles delivered to a customer at the lowest possible cost and, thus, capacity management is a key building block for any cloud implementation.
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