OpenAIRE builds on well-known and low cost technology for an Open Access infrastructure and bases its activities on the European network of institutional and thematic repositories.

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Asked point blank, last month at the Clinton Global Initiative, if he would open an infrastructure bank in Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter tiptoed around it.

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The AMQP messaging infrastructure is an open source project started by financial services firms.

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When asked about his opinion on VBlock (Cisco, VMware, EMC combined initiative), Stevens said he sees tremendous value in it but historically all vertically integrated stacks have failed and therefore Brocade is taking an open approach to the converged infrastructure idea.

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"Sun is doing more and more with being a provider of open source in this enterprise infrastructure space, " says Raven Zachary, an open-source analyst at 451 Group.

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As the changing needs of users often outpace the implementation of more traditional infrastructure, it has been critical to leverage an open hardware blueprint model to accommodate continuous improvementof the system.

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In driving the building of this infrastructure, the City will first focus on establishing an open, gigabit-speed networks in key innovation areas.

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