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“Like a lemming at the proverbial sea cliff, however, the enterprise would do well to avoid blindly following the group. With data infrastructure becoming so fungible these days, the ability to craft optimized solutions is cheaper and easier than ever, even on traditional data center infrastructure." Arthur Cole at Tesora picks apart the Cloud by the Numbers.

You probably spotted the story on Walmart and Openstack, but did you catch the part about what it means for the career trajectory of their engineering team?

"So the ability of the shiny new OpenStack systems to interface with infrastructure that’s been in place for decades or so — some for as much as 50 years — is critical. It also spells the full employment act for all those @WalmartLabs engineers." Gigaom.

Nextcast has got a great interview with Joe Arnold, CEO of SwiftStack the first public OpenStack launch of Swift independent of Rackspace. Arnold, aka "the nicest guy in open source," tells how his early tech exploits almost him put on probation and threatened with lawsuits by college officials.

"What comes next is more cloud, more advanced cloud and more advanced management technology, just be forewarned and forearmed," writes Adrian Bridgewater on Red Hat and advanced clouds at Forbes.

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