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Data Center World 2020

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Keynote: How Dropbox Reduced Costs Significantly by Optimizing its Data Center Footprint

Latane Garetson (Head of Datacenter Physical Infrastructure, Dropbox)

Location: Lila Cockrell Theatre

Date: Thursday, March 19

Time: 8:00am - 9:00am

Pass Type : All Access, Standard

Track : Keynote Programming

Session Type: Keynote

Vault Recording: TBD

In a dramatic move last year, Dropbox optimized its data center strategy, resulting in a significant cost savings year over year. In this presentation, Latane Garetson, Head of Datacenter Physical Infrastructure at Dropbox, will discuss the strategy of the company’s data center footprint, and how they optimized their west coast strategy to align with these goals. He will also share details around execution of the plan on a tight schedule, and some of the challenges that Dropbox faced along the way.