In his view, the growing adoption of hybrid cloud architectures has resulted in the need to mange a new cloud IT mission and the launching of cloud-enabled business services.

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It means that a whole world of new consumer applications and services is being enabled by the easier-than-ever ability to aggregate, standardize and present data from disparate sources.

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Once upon a time, Netflix was proud enough of its public API which enabled third-party services and apps to serve up its data and content in different ways that it opened a gallery to display them.

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