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Netflix Closed Their Last Data Center – Should You Do The Same?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The Netflix announcement back in August of 2015 wasn’t a very big deal. The company sent an email out that announced that in a month they planned on shutting down their very last operational data center. Netflix’s plan to shut down their last data center makes them unique. How did they do it?

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

2015 PREDICTION TIME!! Their individual effect on society and commerce will become moot as these technological capabilities merge to deliver products and services straight out of Star Trek! The Microsoft-IBM Cloud Computing Alliance will be model as other IT behemoths partner to take down Amazon Web Services.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO Business Intelligence

I’m not in the business of managing infrastructure,” says Kirkland, whose previous stints at GoDaddy and Intel helped build the technology acumen he parlays in a new type of industry he joined in 2015. “I Choice closed one data center last year and plans to close its second data center in 2023.

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Understanding Cloud Computing for Your Business

CTOvision

Over the last decade, cloud computing has gone from being a buzzword to an essential component of web technology. Businesses, enticed away from traditional data center models by lower upfront capital costs and simpler solutions to scaling and reliability issues, have been adopting cloud technology in droves.

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Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Ellison Disses IBM, SAP as ‘Nowhere in the Cloud’

Data Center Knowledge

Says Oracle competes with Amazon Web Services in the cloud and "never sees IBM" Read More.

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Buyer’s guide: Data protection for hybrid clouds

Network World

Data is now scattered across internet of things (IoT) devices, remote endpoints, edge locations, and several types of cloud providers. According to the Thales Group, a defense-, security-, and aerospace-focused technology firm, 60% of corporate data now resides in the cloud, up from 30% in 2015.

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud networking comprises three layers: first from on-premises data centers to the cloud, then within a cloud that has multiple accounts or virtual private clouds, and finally, between individual clouds in a multicloud environment. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says.

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