Wednesday, July 18th, 2018

Time	Event
12:05p	Google’s Cloud Data Centers for Hollywood Come Online in Los Angeles Google has launched a cloud availability region in Los Angeles • It is marketed primarily to the area’s media and entertainment industry • The company says the vertical’s bursty workloads are uniquely suited for cloud • Users in California can now enjoy lower latency if they choose L.A. over the previous closest region in Oregon (Comment on this)
4:45p	Managing Unstructured Data at Scale As-a-service delivery means that IT staff can minimize the time they spend on non-strategic tasks such as executing backup and archives. (Comment on this)
6:39p	LinkedIn Joins OCP, Continues Open19 Deployment in Its Data Centers LinkedIn has joined the Open Compute Project, the Facebook-led open source data center initiative • OCP has lots of answers to LinkedIn’s questions about scaling its infrastructure to support exponential traffic growth • LinkedIn continues charging ahead with its own open source data center standard, Open19 • While there is some overlap between OCP and Open19, the two are fundamentally different (Comment on this)
9:01p	Google Cloud Has Disruption, Bringing Snapchat, Spotify Down Issues with Google's cloud service disrupted some popular applications, including Snapchat and Spotify, Tuesday • The outage was resolved less than an hour after it started • Google hasn't explained the cause of the issue, but a status report points to a problem with the global load balancing service (Comment on this)

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