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SUMMARY:Is the data center industry heading for a quartz crisis?
DESCRIPTION:In the 1970s and 1980s the Swiss watchmaking industry went
  almost extinct as Asian companies such as Seiko moved to factory mass
  manufacturing of the new, cheaper and more accurate quartz watch move
 ment. The Swiss industry shrunk rapidly, most of the brands went under
  or were sold and had to find a new way to survive. The Swiss survived
 , at much smaller volume, by producing high cost mechanical watches wh
 ich were expensively marketed as luxury items, a type of positional go
 od (a good whose value is determined by its desirability to others) an
 d creating an artificial scarcity.We have a similar economic event hap
 pening in the data center market today. The design, construction and o
 peration of a data center to the minimum TCO has become commoditised, 
 suppliers and operators no longer have any “secret sauce” or knowl
 edge that enables them to substantially outperform the market, at the 
 same time cloud technologies are driving down the market price at a hu
 ge rate thanks to the uber operators such as Google and Amazon.\nSign 
 up for intriguing Brighttalk webinar with our CTO here\n\nFor more in
 formation visit http://www.datacenterprofessionals.net/events/is-the-d
 ata-center-industry-heading-for-a-quartz-crisis
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20140514T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20140514T140000
CATEGORIES:webinar
LOCATION:London
WEBSITE:https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/540/107707
URL:https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/540/107707
CONTACT:
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Latham":http://www.datacenterprofessionals.net/prof
 ile/PaulLatham
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ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Paul Lat
 ham":http://www.datacenterprofessionals.net/profile/PaulLatham
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