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

Cloud Musings

2015 PREDICTION TIME!! Customers will act on market shifts that makes the purchase and resale of hardware and software no longer viable opting instead for the integration of cloud-based services. 2015 will also be a time of turmoil and retrospection as nefarious and evil forces leverage the power of technology against civil society.

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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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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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Breakfast Discussion 22 Oct on Empowering Cloud Utilization in the Federal Market: Increasing Utilization While Driving Down Risk

CTOvision

For our readers in the DC area, please consider joining us for a breakfast discussion on empowering cloud utilization in the federal market on 22 Oct 2015. Bright Computing provides comprehensive software solutions for provisioning and managing HPC clusters, Hadoop clusters, and OpenStack private clouds in your data center or in the cloud.

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Coldest Data Center in the World – Ice Cube Lab

Galido

Negative 40 degrees… So cold, they have to heat the air used to cool the data center. The Ice Cube Lab data center has over 1,200 computing cores and three petabytes of storage and tethered to the IceCube Observatory, a neutrino detector with strings of optical sensors buried a kilometer deep in the Antarctic ice.

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

The Investing Edge

In fact it wasn’t until 2015 that Netflix announced the closing of their last data center. Almost 100% of our investments are SaaS and on the cloud and there is indisputable data that more enterprises are moving to the cloud, for the flexibility, cost reduction, ease of management, etc. Even Amazon says so.

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

The Investing Edge

In fact it wasn’t until 2015 that Netflix announced the closing of their last data center. Almost 100% of our investments are SaaS and on the cloud and there is indisputable data that more enterprises are moving to the cloud, for the flexibility, cost reduction, ease of management, etc. Even Amazon says so.

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