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> I may never know if this picture and/or article ever happened, but it does raise an interesting point. If the only thing keeping you the only player in a cert
by mbrumlow 9y ago
> I may never know if this picture and/or article ever happened, but it does raise an interesting point. If the only thing keeping you the only player in a certain market is ignorance of how you built your environment, just how long do you think that will last?
As a note, it lasted long enough for the guys to make a very very healthy exit and for the data centers to eventually transition into the backbone (along with a bunch of other - mostly non profitable data enters) of Soft Layer now owned by IBM.
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Also here are some pictures of the place.
http://www.datacenterpics.com/displayimage.php?album=3&pid=614#top_display_media http://www.datacenterpics.com/displayimage.php?album=3&pid=6...
Picture in question:
http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/node/102155/print http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/node/102155/print
https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2006/05/08/story4.html https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2006/05/08/story...
- mbrumlow 9y agoAlso should note that at the time this strategy allowed the company to host about 1% of the internet at the time.