– 90 per cent of today’s organisations now have cloud-based apps- But there are concerns over managing the increasing number of cloud apps & duplication of app functionality – Responsibility for purchasing & managing cloud-based apps is increasingly shared between IT & business usersCentrix Software, a leading expert in workspace management, today revealed results of…
Month: January 2015
Libreboot X200 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom
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This is the second Libreboot laptop from Gluglug (a project of Minifree, Ltd.) to achieve RYF certification, the first being the Libreboot X60 in December 2013. The Libreboot X200 offers many improvements over the Libreboot X60, including a faster CPU, faster graphics, 64-bit GNU/Linux support (on all models), support for more RAM, higher screen resolution,…
Internet of Things Supply Chains By @Microsoft | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
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Disruptive macro trends in technology are impacting and dramatically changing the “art of the possible” relative to supply chain management practices through the innovative use of IoT, cloud, machine learning and Big Data to enable connected ecosystems of engagement. Enterprise informatics can now move beyond point solutions that merely monitor the past and implement integrated…
Netflix on How to Build Services That Scale Beyond Millions of Users
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How Netflix plans to use microservices as it redesigns its cloud-based systems to cope with exponential growth in its userbase. Read more at TechRepublic Cloud Source: Linux
The Call for the Developer Hero By @Bonitasoft | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
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What is a hero? Well, to me, it’s someone who takes the right action when it’s needed and steps up to save the day. Are there heroes in the workplace? People whose actions save the day? People who commit great acts of organizational excellence? I would say that there are. And more, I believe that…
Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation gains 4K, Thunderbolt 2 and Ubuntu Linux options
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Dell makes damn good consumer computers, but the company really shines in the enterprise. Along with HP and Lenovo, the firm makes very solidly built and dependable workstations. Source: Tech
Use Case: Spark Performance Monitoring By @MLnick | @CloudExpo [#BigData]
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At Graphflow, our mission is to empower online stores of all sizes to grow their businesses by providing them access to the same machine learning and Big Data tools used by the largest and most sophisticated tech players in the market. To deliver on this mission, we decided from the very beginning to go ‘all…
MapR Offers Free Hadoop Training
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MapR Technologies just offered a big gift to IT employees who have been looking to improve their big-data skills. The company, which provides a top-ranked distribution of Apache Hadoop, announced Tuesday that it would begin offering free, on-demand training for the open-source software framework for developers, analysts and administrators. Source: Tech
Ex-Opera chief launches Vivaldi browser for 'power tab' rockers
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FORMER OPERA CEO Jon von Tetzchner has launched a browser called Vivaldi designed for people “who have problems” fitting all their open tabs onto one screen. A bare bones technical preview of the browser, named after composer Antonio Vivaldi, is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Source: Tech
pompei 0.1.03
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Pompei is a python package and command line utility to generate photo mosaics from movie frames, like this one: It is an open-source software originally written by Zulko and released under the MIT licence. Source: Tech