New pastures

Today is my last day as an employee at IBM. Its been fantastic. I’ve had a great experience to learn about this business of scale-out computing. I’ve met with some bright minds and gained experiences I could have no where else.

I’ve been able to visit data centers of nearly every big company in the industry and see how they opperate: Boeing, Toyota, Honda, JP Morgan Chase, Visa, Bank of America, NYU, Ohio State, USC, Google, NERSC, Berkeley, UCLA, Blizzard, Acxiom, Shell, BEA, IPICyT, iStockPhoto, Latisys, Lego, Lockheed Martin, NASA Goddard, NAVO, UNF, NetApp, Omniture, Adaptive Computing, PayPal, eBay, PNNL, SafeCo, SciNet (University of Toronto), Sony, Warner Brothers, Threshold, Synopsys, TV Guide, HBO, University of Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, ARL, Voonami… and I’ve configured machines for dozens of places I never visited.

So I’ve gained a very good perspective as to what people are doing and how the manage things. This perspective has given me more confidence than ever as to what kind of solutions people are looking for and what solutions I can deliver.

So I’m striking out on my own to deliver these solutions. Fortunately, I’m not entirely alone. I’ve got a good group of people at ThinkAtomic that will be teaming up with me to make this happen. I look forward to sharing more as things develop!

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