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Will Charnock discusses how The Planet was able to integrate Cisco's next-generation Nexus 5000 switches in just two weeks.
A roundup of data center links from this week, including several stories about the colocation market, naming conventions for Unix servers, and trends in data center site location.
Alistair Croll says the value of metadata in cloud computing platforms may become an issue in migrating applciations from one provider to another.