Netflix closes data centers, and - could your iPhone operate your cooling?

This week on White Space, we discuss Netflix closing down its data centers and moving to the public cloud hosted by its competitor Amazon.

Metal Rebel
Metal Rebel – DARPA Robotics Challenge

Max recounts the news from the Flash Memory Summit, including announcements on ReRAM and Phase Change Memory (not face change memory), and asks whether hard drives will become extinct.

Meanwhile Bill looks at a mobile app for HVAC engineers from Munters. The consensus at DCD - it would benefit from ‘gamification’, along the lines of our favorite, Goat Simulator.

We conclude with the Metal Rebel – a celebrity robot that was invited to open Switch’s SuperNAP 9 in Nevada (pictured right).