"But with this enormous success comes a whole new set of computing problems, and James Hamilton is one of the key thinkers charged with solving such problems, striving to rethink the data center for the age of cloud computing. Much like two other cloud computing giants — Google and Microsoft — Amazon says very little about the particulars of its data center work, viewing this as the most important of trade secrets, but Hamilton is held in such high regard, he’s one of the few Amazon employees permitted to blog about his big ideas, and the fifty-something Canadian has developed a reputation across the industry as a guru of distributing systems — the kind of massive online operations that Amazon builds to support thousands of companies across the globe."Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Excerpt from a James Hamilton profile
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