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The rumors of a Cisco-EMC joint venture are heating up, and I can’t help wondering if Cisco is undertaking a big risk by burning its bridges with IBM and HP. There are no glaringly obvious reasons why the rumored “Alpine” venture should fail, but if it or Cisco’s UCS strategy do end up falling flat, Cisco’s former partners might not be too keen on realigning themselves with the data center networking leader. Cisco seems to be engaging in some high-risk, high-reward activity during a particularly uncertain economic period.

Infrastructure Links for this Week

  1. The big data conundrum

    As Andreessen Horowitz invests in Platfora, fund general partner (and new Platfora board member) Scott Weiss discusses the challenges and opportunities of big data.

    Submitted by Paul Miller

  2. Ubuntu deploys cloud-ready Ocelot beta

    Ubuntu Linux continues to strengthen its cloud-powering credentials with Oneiric Ocelot.

    Submitted by Paul Miller

  3. There Is No ROI in Cloud Computing

    "Sorry Virginia, there is no ROI in cloud computing. If you want to compute the value of using cash to acquire a service versus doing it in-house, that would be a risk/reward or opportunity cost analysis, not an ROI." And it's clearly past time for me to find out who this Virginia person is that everyone keeps apologising to.

    Submitted by Paul Miller

  4. Enemies in the cloud: virtualisation is the enemy of visibility

    When something breaks in a virtualized environment, how do you rapidly track down the offending piece of hardware or software?

    Submitted by Paul Miller

  5. Getting PaaS’d infrastructure as a service

    More rapidly provisioning "a server," either physically or virtually, may be getting easier... but is it really a sensible thing to do?

    Submitted by Paul Miller

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