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Eric Krapf | December 16, 2011 |

 
 
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Slideshow: Big Stories of 2011

Verizon Buys Terremark
Verizon Buys Terremark

This happened way back in January, so many people may not remember it as a big 2011 event, but it signaled that traditional carriers would have a play for cloud services. Terremark owned and operated the NAP of the Americas, a huge datacenter in Miami (shown above); equally important, Verizon committed to keeping Terremark as a separate business unit, indicating that while the carrier sees cloud as crucial, they're smart enough not to try and force the cloud into a Bell shape.

Verizon Buys Terremark This happened way back in January, so many people may not remember it as a big 2011 event, but it signaled that traditional carriers would have a play for cloud services. Terremark owned and operated the NAP of the Americas, a huge datacenter in Miami (shown above); equally important, Verizon committed to keeping Terremark as a separate business unit, indicating that while the carrier sees cloud as crucial, they're smart enough not to try and force the cloud into a Bell shape.

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In no particular order, what Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya, and the rest of them got up to this past year....




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