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		<title>My Thoughts on Steve Jobs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanted to share some thoughts about Steve Jobs&#8217; passing today.  In my lifetime I won&#8217;t see another &#8212; at the same level as Steve influencing both business and technology.  The tweets I&#8217;ve seen today from my tech friends and cycling friends have told the impact. I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d see the second coming of Apple.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archmatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9738616&amp;post=113&amp;subd=archmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 in review</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Minty-Fresh™. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2010. That&#8217;s about 4 full 747s. &#160; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archmatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9738616&amp;post=107&amp;subd=archmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Development and Getting it Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of thoughts ruminating the last week or so on the kick off of a new development project, and how to get it right. I&#8217;m reminded of some quotes from books or key folks in this space (e.g. Steve Jobs) that help form my thoughts around execution: Real Artists Ship &#8212; Steve Jobs Thrash Early [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archmatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9738616&amp;post=95&amp;subd=archmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Keynote from Ethernet Alliance &#8211; Next Gen Network and System Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while but wanted to post my presentation from this event &#8212; Great mix of chip designers, network engineers, and great session on TRILL vs SBP and status in these areas. The entire afternoon was spent discussing impact of virtualization on networking. Extreme networks highlighted the 1-2 additional layers in the network after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archmatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9738616&amp;post=93&amp;subd=archmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regulating Scale and Velocity &#8212; Wall Street vs Clouds Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the &#8220;sell-off&#8221; and market hiccup that occurred Thursday last week formed an analogy to cloud computing for me. Trading is now a distributed process, something we were reminded of last Wed. Trades occurred, perhaps erroneously, perhaps not, that spanned various exchanges under &#8220;rules&#8221; apparently set by those who know best but seemingly find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archmatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9738616&amp;post=88&amp;subd=archmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Cloud Data Center Networking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Corollary: &#8220;Impossible&#8221; exists only because we haven&#8217;t stated or re-factored the problem so it is &#8220;possible.&#8221; I have thought for the last few years that in virtualized and larger density data centers (a PDF link) there has to be a better solution than MAC and IP. IP is challenged by having location embedded in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archmatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9738616&amp;post=81&amp;subd=archmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What You Don&#8217;t Want &#8212; the Cloud and Cost to Deliver</title>
		<link>http://archmatters.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/what-you-dont-want-the-cloud-and-cost-to-deliver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Providing cloud computing at scale is about economics. The delivered services have a narrow range of margin over the first 2-3 years, as to be expected when you outlay some cash for infrastructure, design, implementation etc. Hopefully after year 2 you achieve positive margin and start to pay yourself back. This works well in an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archmatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9738616&amp;post=78&amp;subd=archmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IT, Complexity, and Clouds Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: I listed to Dr. Paul Borrill&#8217;s (exSun DE, VP, Veritas CTO) talk at Stanford on itunes the other day. I loved it. My favorite statement was on TIME = CHANGE. It&#8217;s exactly in line with much of my thinking and observations after life in IT for 15+ years. I and some other smart people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archmatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9738616&amp;post=74&amp;subd=archmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Requirements for a real-time cloud marketplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been lots of press (AWS&#8217;s SPOT Instances, Zimory, here&#8217;s one from Vinton Cerf) the last few weeks about cloud moving towards becoming an interconnected set of compute/data processing infrastructure. One step towards that is certainly some level of interoperability to be able to deploy apps &#8212; e.g. what Rightscale does essentially today or libs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archmatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9738616&amp;post=71&amp;subd=archmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Part 3- Cloud&#8217;s Impact on Data Center Architectures</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 3 if my work in progress that I hope to release in more detail as a paper! Find Part 1 and Part 2 here. ITArchitecture and the Business It is often said that architecture is a study in tradeoffs. Perhaps its best to look at this architecture problem from the perspective of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=archmatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9738616&amp;post=61&amp;subd=archmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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