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Greg Ness (@Archimedius)

Twitter Bio:: Networking, security, virtualization, cloud computing, data centers. Personal side: compulsive reader and traveller, USTA tennis, Kriya Yoga practitioner.
Location:: San Jose, CA
Website:: http://www.gregness.wordpress.com

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Surprise! VMware will join OpenStack

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Never say never. VMware is about to join the OpenStack Foundation, a group initially backed by other industry giants as a counterweight to VMware’s server virtualization dominance. Intel and NEC are also on deck to join as Gold OSF members.

Just in time for VMworld, VMware is about to join the OpenStack Foundation as a Gold member, along with Intel and NEC, according to a post on the OpenStack Foundation Wiki. The applications for membership are on the agenda of the August

On Cloud And Disruption

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CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can subscribe here.Recently at Box’s BoxWorks event, I had the good fortune to hear Clayton Christensen, author of such seminal innovation books as “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” present about disruption in technology generally. Anyone remotely involved in plotting strategy for either existing or new companies needs to read Christensen’s work. Anyway,

Could VMware Beat Amazon in the Cloud?

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Over the last four years Archimedius has tracked the evolution of VMware from server virtualization leader to private cloud leader and the rise of Amazon as a public cloud leader. Earlier in December I predicted the rise of the hybrid cloud in 2012, and later discussed the implications in greater detail in Top Five Cloud Predictions. In short, I think that hybrid cloud promises to transform the way that enterprises and service providers deliver IT services, and the way that vendors develop and bring to market their products and services.Over the next five years we will watch IT move from a feudalistic, hardware-bound model to a service and

A rare look inside Facebook's Oregon data center [photos, video]

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Follow along our tour as we take you on a rare journey through Facebook’s first data center in Prineville Oregon, which houses its Open Compute servers. We’ll bring you along the air flow route, and down into the secret server room:

Prineville, Oregon: When the temperature creeps above 90 degrees in this rural community, it’s the perfect time to see why Facebook decided to build its first data center here. That’s when the outside air cooling system — which collects the cool, dry Oregon air and pushes it through filters and misters to chill the thousands of servers that hold all those Facebook Likes and photos — has to work

Escaping the Public Versus Private Cloud Trap

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While enterprise marketers and pundits fight over the superiority of public versus private cloud computing, maybe it is time to recognize that both fall short of the ultimate cloud promise, the hybrid cloud. The hybrid cloud can make a data center essentially boundless, allowing IT teams to optimize apps at unprecedented levels of scale, efficiency and security. The public cloud combines with the data center and the private cloud to form a single dynamic pool of resources, which is utilized as needed, where needed, without lock in.Data centers are certainly feeling the pressure of cloud computing, despite today’s shortcomings; they are getting

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