This week on White Space, Bill talks about his trip to San Francisco and shares his observations on software-defined storage, while Peter discovers the dangers a new type of electromagnetic pulse weapon could pose to your data center.

Have no fear - you can hide from EMP underground. White Space is recorded in a basement.

We also looked into a real underground site - an old millitary facility in Tampere, Finland, which formerly made Soviet planes, and is now (surprise!) being converted into a data center.

We also discuss what effect AWS coming to India will have on data centers there, and Max met the new CEO of NTT Comms.

Finally, we salute the naming conventions of the OpenDaylight project as a new release arrives. There’s even a song about it…