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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The balance between software and hardware in cars is also changing dramatically since software is increasingly developed internally and built into the cars. We haven’t won by reducing governance and control, but by seeing that it’s important to set up frameworks, with clear principles and guidelines, so teams know what to do,” says Altehed.

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Who wants to pay $3,500 for Apple’s new goggles?

Vox

Apple still has an admonition in its developer guidelines, written in 2010, telling programmers that it has all the fart apps it needs, thank you very much. So what’s an additional piece of hardware to strap to their face? Developers didn’t make apps for the iPhone for a year following its debut.

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

Fountainhead

However, certain environments are inherently bound to hardware and/or tested for performance, and these may need to remain "in-house" on specific hardware (see below) Inherent application functionality N Apps that are inherently "internal" Such as internal back-up software, "edge" applications like printer servers, etc. ► 2010.

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Five Key Trends in DCIM » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. December 2010 (119).

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My Advice to Engineering Undergraduate Students - Social, Agile.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Perhaps more than any other industry, field or time in history, during this time in computer hardware engineering there has been more advancement and evolution than ever before or anywhere else. ► 2010. (14). Labels: about me , cio , startup cto. Visit our website for more details. ► October. (2). ► September. (2).

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The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. For example, software-defined networking has been coined as an approach in which networking control is decoupled from hardware and controlled by a software application. It must be hardware agnostic.

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5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2010 (119). November 2010 (121). October 2010 (99). September 2010 (152).