Brad Wurtz, CEO of Power Assure, an energy and data structure infrastructure management vendor, foresees a day when data centers move workloads around the country to take advantage of energy price differences between regions.

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Mr Graham said it was untrue to suggest he had too much personal power and decisions were not taken on a collective basis, saying the Leveson report had not examined its extensive management structure or how responsibilities for both data protection and Freedom of Information had grown.

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Schmidt realized this company loves to talk it out, jettisoning hierarchy, business silos and layers of management for a flatter, "networked" structure where the guy with the best data wins.

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