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VeriSign On Data Consolidation
Forbes.com (Feb 4 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
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VeriSign is a billion-dollar company that provides identity and Internet infrastructure services to businesses. Chief technologist Ken Silva spends about half his time working on internal IT projects.
One of Silva's main goals is to reduce the overall number of computers and applications it takes to run VeriSign's ( VRSN - news - people ) various services through "data center consolidation," the process of taking many small data center setups and combining them into a larger, more centralized operation. Silva talked with Forbes about winnowing its infrastructure and what that means for employees and customers.
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