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Comment Re:Today's word..."Cloud" (Score 1) 187

The idea that you can create a bundle of resources via virtualization and a blade center teams with a SAN array creates a cloud that doesn't have to be outsourced. You aren't clustering in this environment so much as generating a lot of resources that are more than simply redundant locally. You could lose 5 of twenty servers all at the same time and if you still have the allocated resources abvailable the pplication maintains its availability. In general, i agree with you that outsourcing to a cloud is what people want cloud computing for, for transfer of risk. Has everyone read "Does IT Matter?"

Comment DC area has lots of gaming companies (Score 1) 225

In addition to Bethesda Softworks (Elder Scrolls), which is in Rockville, Maryland now and Epic Megagames which produces the Gears of War stuff now, and a ton of other cool gaming companies, Maryland and the DC area are host to Sid Meier, probably the greatest game producer of all time. It is still amazing to that in an era where games can be produced anywhere that the DC region (DC, Maryland, Virginia) is responsible for much good stuff.

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