Cross-post: GigaOm - Interop Vegas, Land of the Inexpensive and Powerful

A pervasive theme at Interop this year is using inexpensive and powerful hardware for networking. Hard for me to argue there! You can read the post over at GigaOm here.

Cross-post: GigaOm - Wanted: Virtualization Engineer, Referee Exp. Pref.

Is it time for a virtualization engineer? Here are my thoughts on this topic, posted over at GigaOm.

Argentina goes Open!

Interesting news from Ostatic that Argentina may be the first country to regulate that all government offices use open source. For those that know me well, you know that my godson is from Buenos Aires and that I've spent my fair share of time crossing 9 de Julio. I have lots of good memories of BA and this news just reaffirms my desire to spend more time in this great country eating milanesas and alfajores de Havanna.

Cross-post: GigaOm on The Music Industry

Nothing gets me revved up faster than a double shot of espresso than more the stupidity of the music business. You can read my latest rant on this topic over at GigaOm. You really don't want to see me after the espresso :)