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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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Involta: On a mission to transform the world through technology

CIO Business Intelligence

Based in Tucson, Arizona, and with more than 240 employees, Involta operates 12 high-performance data centers in Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. One example includes the use of closed-loop, water-free, and refrigerant-based cooling systems in all of the company’s data centers.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: BISNOW Data Center Event.

Cloud Musings

BISNOW Data Center Event Highlights Cloud. A big thank you to BISNOW and my fellow panel members for an outstanding discussion and very informative event, last weeks Data Center Investment Conference and Expo. Reposted from " Habitat for Data-manity ". Saturday, July 28, 2012. We always say: Give a man a.

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NJVC to Spotlight Cloudcuity at Gartner Data Center Conference

Cloud Musings

NJVC to Spotlight Cloudcuity at Gartner Data Center Conference. speak on “Cloud Brokerage Services for Data Center Service Providers” on the afternoon of December 4. is a disruptive business model, and specifically for the data center. threaten traditional data center business models.

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Wells Fargo Consolidates Data Centers, Lowers Carbon Emissions

Data Center Knowledge

Bank has been consolidating IT since takeover of Wachovia during 2008 financial collapse Read More. Consolidation Enterprise'

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Fountainhead: What's your "data center complexity factor"?

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Whats your "data center complexity factor"? Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). What's your "data center complexity factor"? ► 2008. (79). Data Center Design.

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A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

CIO Business Intelligence

These changes were designed to lead to an integrated VCF solution that will bring broader long-term benefits to our valued customers both in their own data centers and in the cloud with increased portability to move workloads among on-premise data centers and supported cloud providers.

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