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I’m the almost business guy, so don’t expect a lot of technical information as you read this. However, there are some interesting Magento / Environment things happening in our office that are worth mentioning. I’ll do it, since the real technical people are busy changing the world.

Our big push right now is extending the limits of Rackspace’s cloud environment. We’re finishing an enterprise ecommerce deployment that’s fully scalable, billed only for the hardware / bandwidth usage (which means automatically down to 1 web server at night, up to 6+ during peak traffic) in a totally secure, redundant cloud environment. Amazon has tools that make this possible, but the business guys for this large client said “No” (some sort of corporate jockeying).

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