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Apple confirms it bought virtual reality event startup NextVR

The Verge

Apple has confirmed it did indeed purchase virtual reality company NextVR, which specializes in recording live events like concerts and sports matches to be experienced in VR, according to Bloomberg. Photo: NextVR. The company’s confirmation arrives after 9to5Mac first reported the acquisition in early April.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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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. Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. 。 April 8, 2009 at 12:03 AM.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

The market for using GPUs as general-purpose processors (GPGPUs) really opened up in 2009, when OpenGL publisher Khronos Group released Open Computing Language (OpenCL). 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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Microsoft to permanently close physical retail locations; will incur pre-tax charge of $450M

GeekWire

It opened its first location in 2009. “We will make our digital storefronts the best place to learn, buy, and receive support across software and hardware,” Porter wrote. .” A Microsoft spokesperson said that “all employees will have the opportunity to stay with Microsoft.”

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VMware Cisco EMC VCE Zen and now server storage I/O convergence

Storage IO Blog

In case you have not heard, the joint initiative (JV) founded in the fall of 2009 between Intel VMware Cisco and EMC called VCE had a change of ownership today.

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