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Drones, radars, pizza makers among finalists for Hardware of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

The finalists for this year’s hardware and gadget category at the GeekWire Awards run the span of aviation to anchovies. On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. Community voting, which closes on April 30, will be factored in with feedback from more than 20 judges.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

SoC helps reduce power consumption, and can help ensure devices require less space and cost less to build from discrete components, making it an appealing choice for businesses developing technical hardware.

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Fountainhead: Egenera creates physical & virtual servers.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Virtualization. (31). Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Ken Oestreich. 、????,???????,?????????,??????。

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Then in 2006 Nvidia introduced a new GPU architecture, CUDA, that could be programmed directly in C to accelerate mathematical processing, simplifying its use in parallel computing. Nvidia says its hardware, software, and services can cut early-stage drug discovery from months to weeks. Nvidia gets two bites at this market.

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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

According to IBM’s official mainframe life cycle history , each generation of hardware typically remains on sale for 4.1 years after its launch in June 2006. Wazi is a suite of tools IBM introduced back in 2020 with which developers can write z/OS applications and then test them in a z/OS sandbox on their own x86 hardware.

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Fountainhead: Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Enter Virtualization. Somewhere around 2007, OS virtualization began to go mainstream. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, January 24, 2011.

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Apple’s M1 Mac design emphasizes continuity over complexity

The Verge

But you’d never know it by looking at the new MacBook Air , MacBook Pro , or Mac mini , which all look virtually identical to their Intel-based predecessors. The hardware may be new, but the new Macs are still, well, Macs. Apple has released the first of its new Macs with the company’s custom-designed M1 Arm processor. Image: Apple.

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