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Fountainhead: Correcting computing's wrongs - road to recovery?

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The principle has been known as that of a "computing fabric," first conceived by Vern Brownell , the then-CTO of Goldman Sachs, and later productized by Egenera. Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. An alternative model.

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Fountainhead: "California" is deja vu all over again

Fountainhead

Just in case you want a "preview" of what Cisco is expected to announce on March 16th, you might want to compare their unified computing model to Egeneras Infrastructure Orchestration technology it has been shipping for about 7 years. It all sounds pretty familiar to what Vern Brownell conceived-of back in 2001. Big Data. (6).