During the 1990s, there was a boom in corporate technology spending as companies upgraded their computing infrastructures to compete in e-business.

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Using this basic approach along with a variety of extensions, Puppet allows the components that comprise large computing infrastructures to be defined.

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The Open Compute Project was the result of an activity at Facebook to build the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.

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Two recent events reminded us this spring that cloud computing infrastructures are vulnerable to the same genetic IT flaw that plagues traditional data center operations: everything fails, sooner or later.

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Today, we are increasingly moving towards more distributed forms of computing, including the use of grid and cloud computing infrastructures (also similar to what BU, MIT, Harvard, Northeastern and UMass are doing with the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center).

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Additionally, data center infrastructures need to enable shifts towards cloud computing and enhanced mobility, and applications will need to follow suit.

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When implemented properly, the cloud computing economic model can drastically reduce the operations and maintenance cost of IT infrastructures.

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