A lot has occurred since my last blog post. I am continuing the development of my technology and working in the Cloud, however I have chosen to do this with a great team at Dell. I was approached a while back about this opportunity and as I dug deeper and saw the potential I began to buy in. Finally after meeting the great team of experts involved behind the scenes I decided to join them.
I have worked with some of the team members before including Rob Hirschfeld. Rob and I founded both ProTier (note that PODS ran on VMware’s ESX) and co-founded Surgient together (interestingly Surgient announced its acquisition by Quest Software last week). Rob and I have created a great deal of IP (Intellectual Property) in the past together, including the First Patent around Cloud Computing (This was filed as a Provisional Patent in 2001 and a Full Patent in 2002). Our time at Dell should produce some new and great work in the Applied Architectures and Intellectual Property sides.
Update: Special thanks to Alessandro for the mention on Virtualization.info
Data Gravitas 
OMG – I am amazed at how much fun it is to be working w/ you again. Time to open up that can of kick ass that I’ve been saving in the cooler. Sort of like that bottle of champaign that we toted around until Patent 1 was granted. Except, this time we’re not going to wait to open it, we’re just going to start kicking ass right now.
http://robhirschfeld.com/2010/08/15/juxtaposition/