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Nike just bought a virtual shoe company that makes NFTs and sneakers ‘for the metaverse’

The Verge

One comparison I’ve heard repeatedly over the last year is that buying NFTs to “flex” on people in the metaverse is just like collecting sneakers, and now Nike is apparently trying to make sure it’s ready for the literal version of that possibility. RTFKT made these A16Z sneakers to celebrate a round of venture capital funding | Image: RTFKT.

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I just earned (and sold) my first Starbucks NFT: How it works, how much I made, and what I learned

GeekWire

After 11 days playing trivia challenges and mini-games, entering a contest to win coffee for life, pledging to spread holiday cheer, taking a virtual tour of a Costa Rican coffee farm, and regularly visiting my local coffee drive-through in real life, I finally earned a Starbucks digital stamp Monday afternoon. Then I sold it.

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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience

CIO Business Intelligence

In comparison, a multicloud-by-design model helps overcome the challenges that may arise while operating a multicloud environment. By enabling their people to focus on what matters, the respondents achieved 12% faster development lifecycles and consistently higher net revenues. Multi Cloud

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Jeff Bezos to hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5, anniversary of company’s creation

GeekWire

. “We chose that date because it’s sentimental for me, the day Amazon was incorporated in 1994, exactly 27 years ago,” Bezos said, addressing shareholders via webcast during his final annual meeting as CEO, held virtually due to the pandemic. In his remarks, Bezos addressed Amazon’s proposed $8.45

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The good and the bad of Citrix XenDesktop

Virtualized Greek

I plan on during a full comparison of View and XenDesktop. But, before I do a comparison I thought I’d share what I like and don’t like about XenDesktop. Integration with XenApp – A VDI solutions is not just about virtualizing the desktop but also about providing access to applications. Virtualization Citrix VDI XenDesktop'

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Technology Short Take 131

Scott Lowe

Quentin Machu outlines a series of problems his company experienced using Weave Net as the CNI for their Kubernetes clusters, as well as describes the migration process to a new CNI. The article doesn’t go deep on any of them, but does provide some useful information and comparison of the various mechanisms. Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own. Virtualization.

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