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How Much Integration Is Too Much in the Cloud?
GigaOM (May 30 2010)
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If you’ve been following the data center hardware space for the past year, you might be under the impression that integrated stacks are the future of IT. After all, Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems was all about integration and HP and Cisco appear locked in a death match over which one of them is best equipped to handle your server, storage and networking needs. However, as detailed in my weekly column on GigaOM Pro, IT spending is ramping back up after the economic meltdown, and it doesn’t look like customers are buying into the promise of having just one throat to choke.
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