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Data Center February 22, 2016 5 lessons IT learned from the Netflix cloud journey Netflix recently completed migrating their streaming service with AWS. Keith Townsend shares insights for enterprises considering a cloud move. Resource of the day Whitepaper: Seven Ways to Reduce Waste and Accelerate Software Delivery This paper will explore best practices for identifying and eliminating seven types of waste: Waiting, handoffs and task switching, motion, extra processes, extra features, partially completed work and defects. Additional TechRepublic resources Researchers devise method to detect location spoofing by calculating network delays Public cloud crushing private cloud in growth and revenue IPv6: The smart person's guide All-flash arrays: The smart person's guide Featured Webcast Live Webcast: Avoiding Big Data Headaches: Moving Hadoop to Production Open source big data analytics such as Hadoop and Spark, are important tools for gaining insight into a variety of large data sets. Despite the promise of easy deployment, there is a challenge to meeting enterprise requirements. Big Data reliability, data consistency, security and efficiency are rarely met in the sandbox environment where the project starts. In this webinar, join John Webster of The Evaluator Group while he outlines how the choice of a storage solution can address enterprise requirement or increase the complexity of an enterprise big data project. Register now! Featured multimedia 10 of the latest security products that help you fight bad guys Today's recommended downloads Whitepaper: Seven Ways to Reduce Waste and Accelerate Software Delivery (IBM Corp.) Big Data Analytics Infrastructure for Dummies (IBM Power Systems) Making Continuous Delivery Possible (CA Technologies) Agile Infrastructure Monitoring for the Application Economy (CA Technologies) How Dropbox Business helps IT reduce risk (Dropbox) A special feature from TechRepublic and ZDNet VR and AR: The Business Reality Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are going to be useful for far more than just gaming. We explore the ways the technology will be used for training, marketing, product design, and much more. Special Offer Web Hosting Solutions Check out CNET's list detailing some of the best Web Hosting companies for 2016. Find Web Hosting providers using price comparisons, specials, coupons and find hosting for specific needs like Wordpress, PrestaShop, along with green energy hosting, drag-and-drop website builder and more. TechRepublic newsletters Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Click the newsletter title below to subscribe. Election Tech 2016 TechRepublic Cover Stories Connect with TechRepublic Visit the Subscripton Center to get other free newsletters, manage your account settings or to be removed from TechRepublic communications. The e-mail address for your subscription is habib2best@gmail.com. Unsubscribe | Send Feedback | FAQ | Advertise | Privacy Policy © 2016 CBS Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved. TechRepublic is a registered service mark of CBS Interactive, Inc. TechRepublic 235 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 U.S.A.