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Battle for Market Share in Cloud Platform Services
27th March 2016
It would be easy to assume that the internet behemoth Google would stand head and shoulders above others in providing cloud platform services. In fact Amazon Web Services is - for the moment - well out ahead of Microsoft, IBM and Google. That however might be about the change. By the end of 2017, Google plans to build 12 new huge state of the art data centers around the world in an investment of more than $10 billion. Google has just released a video in that takes you through its data center in The Dalles, Oregon.
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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