Burton Group has a number of interesting blogs, and one of them on data centre topics is here.

Dell is emerging as a major player in the cloud. Keep up with their developments and thoughts on their blog.

James Hamilton is a data centre design guru who recently jumped ship from Microsoft to Amazon Web Services and his blog is here.

Intel visionaries and scientists “poised at the very cutting-edge of technology, blazing new trails into the untamed jungle of the future.” This is their blog.

Loose Bolts is a blog by Microsoft’s Michael Manos on cloud, infrastructure and data centres.

Simon Phipps is Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, and his personal (non Sun) blog is here.

Robin Bloor is a veteran IT analyst and his blog is here.

Rodrick is a techie working on Wall Street, so his blog is a bit geeky. But it’s worth reading here.

Analyst firm IDC is all over cloud computing these days, at the IDC eXchange.

The CloudPundit blog is written by Gartner’s Lydia Leong and covers “the business of Internet infrastructure, cloud computing, and virtual worlds.”

Jayshree is the very new CEO at Arista Networks, and her blog is here.

Check out Amr’s blog. He used to work at Yahoo and now has a new company called Cloudera, which he is founding along with people from Google, Facebook and Oracle. It’s a kind of Red Hat for Hadoop. Hadoop is an Apache project focused on developing open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing, with a focus on storage.

Billy Marshall is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at rPath and he writes about virtualisation and virtual appliances here.

Roberto Galoppini blogs on Commercial Open Source Software here.

As one might expect, CloudAve is a blog all about cloud computing

Chris Keene is the CEO of WaveMaker Software, and he blogs here on Web 2.0, Ajax and SaaS. Many may remember Chris as CEO of Persistence Software, which signed up several Wall Street firms as customers before being acquired by Progress Software.

Tom Foremski is a former FT journalist and a blogger from the early days. His blog is here.

Darren is CTO of SunGard, and his blog covers a range of enterprise topics, including SOA, BPM and “everything” as a Service.

It’s great to get the perspective on new technologies from someone who is very much engaged in how they are relavent to the financial services world.

This Labor Day, we are introducing a new weekly feature to highlight third party blogs that focus on enterprise IT and infrastructure issues.

We begin with Marc Adler’s Magmasystems blog. Marc works for a major investment bank as the technology head of their complex event processing initiatives.

Check out his blog at magmasystems.blogspot.com.