Capital One publicly announced plans to close data centers at AWS re:Invent
Ashish Thusoo · Making Big Data Accessible Using the Cloud // Ashish Thusoo, Qubole [FirstMark's Data Driven] · Nov 9, 2016 · at 17:38
Ashish Thusoo, CEO and co-founder of Qubole, discusses enterprise cloud adoption at Data Driven NYC, highlighting how Fortune 1000 attitudes toward the cloud have shifted.
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“I think last year in reInvent, right, Capital One was up in the state saying that, you know, I'm going to, we're going to shut down our data centers, move things to the cloud.”
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