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Apr, 2016 : Mark Thiele Decides to Join Cloud Startup
📅 - Mark Thiele, a very well-known data center guru, has decided to join Apcera, a cloud technology startup. He was the executive vice president of ecosystem development for Switch, which is responsible for some of the largest data center campuses in the world.
Along with joining Apcera, Thiele is the founder and president of Data Center Pulse, which is a non-profit in charge of promoting the use of the best practices between companies and data center industry. .
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