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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. The next year was when they first got serious about moving their company’s applications into the cloud.

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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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Elon Musk’s SpaceX inks satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud

The Verge

Google said on Thursday that it signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use the space company’s growing satellite internet service, Starlink, with its cloud unit. The Google-SpaceX deal marks another competitive win for Google in its own rivalry with Amazon’s behemoth cloud services unit, Amazon Web Services.

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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. There is a talent war going on,” Hoag says.

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AWS Re:Invent Recap – Hybrid Cloud is Real. Even Amazon Says So.

The Investing Edge

At $27B in Q3 2018 run rate revenue, representing 46% year over year growth, and holding a 51% market share, Amazon Web Services has maintained and defended its dominant position in the public cloud. In fact it wasn’t until 2015 that Netflix announced the closing of their last data center.

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AWS Re:Invent Recap – Hybrid Cloud is Real. Even Amazon Says So.

The Investing Edge

At $27B in Q3 2018 run rate revenue, representing 46% year over year growth, and holding a 51% market share, Amazon Web Services has maintained and defended its dominant position in the public cloud. In fact it wasn’t until 2015 that Netflix announced the closing of their last data center.

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AWS Re:Invent Recap – Hybrid Cloud is Real. Even Amazon Says So.

The Investing Edge

At $27B in Q3 2018 run rate revenue, representing 46% year over year growth, and holding a 51% market share, Amazon Web Services has maintained and defended its dominant position in the public cloud. In fact it wasn’t until 2015 that Netflix announced the closing of their last data center.

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