Structure 08

Tue. Jul. 01, 2008

 Following CloudCamp last week was Structure 08, a new conference from GigaOM centered on the hyperscale infrastructure powering the clouds.  There is plenty of coverage of the event already out there so I won't waste digital ink here on everything that was discussed.   But the key takeaway: infrastructure matters.  A lot.  That was the message from speaker after speaker in the keynotes and panel discussions.   Why it matters:

1. TCO-advantaged infrastructure is a competitive differentiator for cloud operators.

2.  Infrastructure and application comprise one large machine and must be designed and managed together.  Infrastructure as an afterthought is a recipe for disaster.

This event brought some well-deserved attention to the hard work going on in the boiler room of Web 2.0.  Hats off to the team at GigaOM and all the participants.

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Only published comments... Tuesday, July 01, 2008 04:22 PM
by Todd Brannon, Dell Data Center Solutions

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buda said:

It is a disgrace that Dell is trying to trademark cloud computing phrase. Dell's offering in cloud computing is nothing but a repackaging of whatever services they have always offered. They are not offering any real IP to the space and it simply shameful they want to trademark this phrase...

August 5, 2008 1:50 AM

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