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Sam Dean at OStatic wrote a great post about whether mostly proprietary cloud offerings like Microsoft Azure those provided by Amazon Web Services will be able to compete with open source offerings like Eucalyptus and other emerging products.  I think they can, and I think they might win. There is work being done on clouds standards that will enable interoperability, and that could be enough for many companies. Proprietary software has not died yet, and part of the reason is companies love full-featured, fully supported products — and cloud computing, especially, is supposed to be about making life easier.

Infrastructure Links for this Week

  1. HP Openly Criticizes the Cisco Unified Computing System

    This could get ugly (uglier?). Anticipating an announcement that VMware is officially ditching HP for Cisco servers, HP is going on the offensive.

    Submitted by Derrick Harris

  2. Will Microsoft Azure Promote Efficient Software Development?

    A fair question. When we talk about cloud pricing, the discussion often stops at computing and storage, ignoring the elephant in the room that is bandwidth costs.

    Submitted by Derrick Harris

  3. HP Hoovers Up IBRIX

    This should be a good move for HP's high-performance storage business, as IBRIX's file-serving software is designed for today's hyperscale data centers.

    Submitted by Derrick Harris

  4. Business as Unusual

    Rackable Systems got a legendary name and some great technology when it bought SGI, but it probably wasn't in the market for an HPC line of business, too. Right now, it's best to focus on your scale-out competency and let IBM build supercomputers.

    Submitted by Derrick Harris

  5. Google: Nice Quarter, But …

    It's obvious I'm not an investment analyst, because I would consider Google's steady revenues in the midst of a recession to be a good sign.

    Submitted by Derrick Harris

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