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Riddle Me This: Cloud Sprawl
Riddle me this: Imagine taking a dollar bill and cutting it up into four pieces. Each piece is placed inside different containers that are identical. Carry the 4 containers together in a bag and their...
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VMware and SpringSource; Getting Warmer
VMware announced the acquisition of SpringSource for a total of around $420 million. SpringSource provides a opensource Java development platform but they also own Hyperic an opensource management...
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Why Cisco should fear HP
Earlier this year, Cisco made headlines with their UCS B-Series Blade Servers. They followed this up with the Nexus 1000v and several other announcements including a partnership with BMC. At the time...
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Is Cisco for or against automation?
Cisco has long understood the need to market to the Executive/Board Room as-well-as to the Network Engineer; Wall Street and Main Street. Throughout the years, we have watched John Chambers and...
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AT&T & iPhone: “Can you hear me now?”
AT&T Wireless has become the company that we love to hate. After-all, they are the 2nd largest wireless carrier in the United States and maintain exclusive rights to the Apple iPhone....
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Note to Juniper: Wake Up!
If anyone knows how to compete against Cisco, it’s Juniper. Juniper redefined core routing and forced Cisco to re-invent their aging portfolio of core devices. My affection for Juniper runs deep. From...
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2009: We Fooled You
As 2009 comes to a close, below is my very incomplete list of top “we fooled you” moments of 2009. Cloud Computing trumps everything Virtualization renders the OS irrelevant Google “does no evil” Cisco...
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The bamboozle is over: Google’s Mantra is BS
Google is scary on many fronts; from the information they collect about their users to how they use their size/power to bully their way into markets. While Platen has written about the evils of...
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Yahoo: Goodbye Bartz Hello Baidu or Apple
In yet another mystifying move, Yahoo’s board fired Carol Bartz and ended her three year tenure as CEO. Over the last three years, Bartz has had to clean up after the less than stellar leadership of...
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Myth Debunked: Open Source Equals No Vendor Lock-in
As an open source advocate and former head of a successful open source project, I find it troubling that there is a trend within the industry of declaring “no vendor lock-in” for open source or...
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