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

The Accidental Successful CIO

The company sent an email out that announced that in a month they planned on shutting down their very last operational data center. Netflix made the decision to move all of their IT operations into the cloud after the company experienced a major hardware failure back in 2008. How Netflix Moved To The Cloud. How did they do it?

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO Business Intelligence

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural framework used for software development that focuses on applications and systems as independent services. Average salary for expertise: $132,666 Average salary for regular use: $116,897 Difference: $15,769 8.

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Oracle adds compute services to its Cloud@Customer offering

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle is adding a new managed offering to its Cloud@Customer platform that will allow enterprises to run applications on proprietary optimized infrastructure in their own data centers to address data residency and security regulations and solve low-latency requirements. The infrastructure will be managed and operated by Oracle.

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Fountainhead: A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The structure, the architecture, the even the color scheme is all for a purpose - to communicate attention to detail. and only 20% of data centers scoring better than 2.0 Data Center Density. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. Photo: Intel).

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EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. The new products cut across the company’s market leading Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy product lines. Modular Data Centers.

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Hybrid Cloud Means Slower Sales Growth for Equinix » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Colocation facilities like this Equinix data center are key components of many hybrid cloud infrastructures. Colocation centers are key components of many hybrid architectures, providing third-party space to securely host corporate infrastructure, as well as ultra-fast connections to public clouds like Amazon Web Services.