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"The company said that Bluehouse would combine social networking and online collaboration tools to help organizations to share documents, contacts, engage in joint project activities, host online meetings, and build social networking communities through a Web browser."

"Another aspect of the data center that will change dramatically as clouds become more pervasive is the whole idea of capacity management, according to RedMonk IT analyst Michael Coté. In the cloud, capacity restraints aren’t caused by limitations in physical resources, but the speed at which new services can be deployed. It takes time to initiate new systems, transfer data and applications, test them, and finally connect them to existing services. He recommends that enterprises heading into the cloud concentrate on ensuring that new services can be enacted quickly and then establish proper workflows to manage those new assets."

On capacity management mixed with cloud computing: "from my pov one of the upsides of cloud/virtualisation is not having hardware procurement on the critical path of big projects."

"Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"

This begs the suggestion: all vendors should have a "trial this on EC2" button on their product list (where it works) so people can easily try it out.

Details on how Google runs it's data centers, mostly in numbers not so much specs and practices.

"Setup and Manage 1 to 1000+ Servers on AWS!"