Links for March 9th through March 21st

• Dell: We’re Building Data Centers in 10 Countries
• Eclipse Foundation Launches Open Beta of OrionHub
• Complete Integration Of Google Voice And 50 Million Sprint Customers, Plus 4G Nexus S
• Zenoss Takes Cloud Management To The Next Level
• Microsoft’s cloud buzzword of 2011: Hybrid
• Zenoss Delivers Datacenter Insight — ServerWatch.com
• Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive
  Complaining about free Internet services is the new complaining about offensive stuff on TV. Just change the channel.
• Cities with the Most Energy Efficient Buildings: L.A., Houston, Detroit, Dallas
• Alex Payne — Not A Waste
  One take on the “change the world, and profit too!” philosophy. Cf. Apple.
• IBM: Our appliance servers smoke Ellison’s ‘phony baloney’
• HP is Betting on the Cloud and WebOS
  “HP’s strategy seems to require customers wanting to utilize the HP cloud to use an HP device running WebOS.”
• US Army developing mobile apps for soldiers in the field
  “They [the mil i tary] are using $10,000 wire less receivers today, but with mobile devices cost ing $400, those can be ruggedi zed [with cases and other gear] and the costs are minimal,” said John Delay, direc tor of archi tec tures for emerg ing busi ness at Harris.
• The Current, Future State of Cloud Computing #sxswi
• A cacophony of clients
  “Deloitte predicted that 50 per cent of endpoint devices sold in 2011 would not be PCs; they’d be smartphones and tablets. Some 25 per cent of tablet purchases will be by enterprises, the firm says – and that doesn’t account for the many that consumers will bring into the enterprise themselves. That bears out figures from Apple suggesting that iPads have made it into around 65 per cent of the Fortune 100 in some shape or other.”
• Hey SpiceRex, don’t use all the soap! – Spiceworks Community
• IE9 Release Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses – IEBlog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• SXSW Bummer! AT&T Implements Broadband Caps
• Windows Phone 7 marketplace hits 10,000 apps, WP7 updates still way outnumbered
• Nokia: Transition to Windows Phone to take about two years | ZDNet
• SAP Does NoSQL
• New in Gmail Labs: Smart Labels (Gmail Blog)
• Apotheker: webOS Installed on Every HP Computer in 2012

Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned.