John, Derek, Mike, and Steven are back to finish up the topic of Small shop design, but only after they review the weekly news: Goodbye Yahoo ;(, hello Openstack alternate to vBlock, and Google apparently fails at config automation.

Newsy News

Wanna buy Yahoo? Better get your bid in soon.

Google Compute Engine takes a sh*t when their config management software retracts all BGP routes from the internet

Red Hat and Quanta’s QCT partner to produce a whitebox and Openstack version of the converged infrastructure vBlock

Topic: Small Shop Design Part 2

Compute (Hyper-V? VMWare? Maybe KVM?)

Storage (FreeNAS and OpenFiler can be good options)

Collaboration (IM, Email, VOIP…)

Security (Just go find PacketPushers show 260 with Jay Swan)