Will be a busy couple of weeks, and I’m fully expecting to go blog silent for a little bit, so am getting a bunch out…… 1) A great new ESG analysis of what we’re working on, and how it fits together here: 2)  we held a recent 3-way conference call to share some of the things that we’ve been working on, answer some questions.   Was insanely popular (we had 500 or so spots on the con call, and it over-booked.  We will hold an ongoing series of webcasts.   Here’s the description. Please join Chuck Hollis, EMC VP – Global Marketing Chief Technology Officer, as he leads a discussion of the key principles around private clouds with Doug Gourlay, Cisco Systems, Vice President, Data Center Solutions; Dr. Stephen Herrod, VMware, Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer; and Chad Sakac, EMC, Vice President, VMware Technical Alliance. Join to hear industry experts share their private cloud perspectives These concepts include how enterprises can achieve: * Economies of scale * Simplified and standardized service offerings * Scalable growth * Increased efficiencies * The new role of service providers If you want to listen to the recording – it’s here: