Two key industries industries face massive disruption in the coming years as
IT becomes ever more strategic to enterprise operating advantage, and IT
infrastructure scales to new levels of complexity and dynamism. The future
of IT will likely be created by those who accelerate the pace of automation
and who build more energy-efficient, scalable data [...]
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Attending the first Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group was a powerful, albeit
surreal experience. Watching Dan Lynch, Bob Grossman and Vint Cerf make the
case for a revolution in networking and moderate a team of industry giants
was more memorable than I could have ever imagined.
Yet I was also impressed with the comments and exchanges between the legends
and the Young Turks who also attended. So I’ve decided to highlight some of
their contributions to the infrastructure 2.0 conversation (and now the
working group).
Chris Hoff has written some of the best blogs on infrastructure 2... (more)
I had the distinct pleasure of talking to the Bob Dylan of Infrastructure
2.0, John Willis earlier.
The result was this podcast on infrastructure 2.0. John has a great IT
Management and Cloud Blog.
You can follow his Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/botchagalupe. John used
the term infrastructure 2.0 about 2 years ago to talk about.
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It has been refreshing to see more coverage in the business and tech press
related to the wholesale data center category, or what Michael Vizard has
recognized as data center warehouses. The concept of a company that builds
and leases data center space in large quantities is unknown to many CIOs and
CFOs, but I [...]
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Last week I had a brief meeting with Yoram Heller of hot cloud player
Morphlabs and we talked about the next wave of cloud innovations. Of
particular interest was the concept of specialized software suites that ride
on top of the commoditized cloud platforms that have so far captured most of
the popular interest in cloud computing.
It is possible, if indeed likely, that most forms of dedicated hardware or
appliances in the network will be replaced by powerful instances, workloads
and or/ boutique platforms that transcend the physical and technical
boundaries that have been in p... (more)