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August 5th, 2008

LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 11:00 am

Categories: General, Linux, LinuxWorld, Open Source

Tags: LinuxWorld, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Video, Computing, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Corporate Communications, Financial Planning, Storage Management, Utility Computing

At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Jeffrey Birnbaum, managing director and chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, speaks about using cloud computing to reduce complexities and costs in financial services. He discusses the move away from dedicated machines and why ideas old like virtualization have become useful again.

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RE: LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing
As with most of the posts here, they don't seem to understand Jeff and Merrill's "stateless" vision at all. It isn't about going back to thin-clients, it isn't about eschewing the mainframe and it isn... (Read the rest)
Posted by: wintyr Posted on: 08/22/08 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
This guy has been drinking too much clould computing Kool Aid  P. Douglas | 08/05/08
RE: LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing  mdbobbo | 08/05/08
RE: LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing  Pheck | 08/05/08
RE: LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing  MuraliKaundinya | 08/06/08
RE: LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing  wintyr | 08/22/08

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