Always love some funny writing, eh? Since Google’s (virtualized) cloud is itself built on top of Linux containerization, this means developers will enter into the paradoxical situation of running a container-based OS on a hypervisor on top of a container. “M.C. Escher’s cloud”

Google: ‘EVERYTHING at Google runs in a container’

New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories

Ford Continues With Open Source Strategy To Attract Developers and Connect Cars In China

Also, [see this other story on the topic](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DataCenterKnowledge/~3/KIgB7EGoc6A/). HP Orchestrates Datacenters With OpenStack, Chef

LiveOak raises more than $100 million to back Texas startups

This is the common staffing benefit of new technologies: As such, Redmond says, the result is not that IT becomes redundant; it becomes more strategically important than ever. And, significantly, it goes from being a department that normally says “no” to user requests to one that can start saying “yes.” Even comparatively minor things, such as the vast 50GB inbox quota that Office 365 offers will, for many, be a breath of fresh air.

Steady Growth in Corporate Cloud Spending

Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done