Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant | Blogs | Vanity Fair

“You look at the Windows Phone and you can’t help but wonder, How did Microsoft squander the lead they had with the Windows CE devices? They had a great lead, they were years ahead. And they completely blew it. And they completely blew it because of the bureaucracy.” via Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails …

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Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10 | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 11.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. via Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu …

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The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

OpenStack is software anyone can use to build their own version of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, the massively popular web service that gives developers and businesses instant access to virtual servers. The roots of OpenStack stretch back only about four years to a skunk works project inside of NASA via The Secret History of OpenStack, …

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