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Facebook names a new CTO with a major focus on hardware

The Verge

Facebook is serious about being a long-term player in hardware. On Wednesday, the company promoted Andrew Bosworth, the current head of its hardware division that makes Oculus and other consumer devices, to the role of chief technology officer, replacing outgoing CTO Mike Schroepfer when he becomes a senior fellow next year.

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How Far has Face-Tracking Technology Come in 2016?

CTOvision

This is the technology behind Snapchat’s filters, impressive on mobile hardware, and it points to the most promising aspect of face-tracking technology: its implications for socializing in the digital sphere. Where do you think face-tracking technology will go towards the end of 2016? That is exactly what Veeso is working on.

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APM Is Hot. Don't Laugh, I'm Serious.

Forrester IT

In September Forrester published The Forrester Wave™: Application Performance Management, Q3 2016. For a bigger list of vendors, see the Forrester report Vendor Landscape: Application Performance Management, Including Mobile APM, Q2 2016. · of software, hardware, virtual-ware, and cloud.

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On-Premise Hadoop Just Got Easier With These 8 Hadoop-Optimized Systems

Forrester IT

Hadoop-optimized systems (aka appliances) make on-premises deployments virtually instant and blazing fast to boot. Unlike generic hardware infrastructure, Hadoop-optimized systems are preconfigured and integrated hardware and software components to deliver optimal performance and support various big data workloads.

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Updated Software Defined Data Infrastructure Webinars and Fall 2016 events

Storage IO Blog

Here is the updated Server StorageIO fall 2016 webinar and event activities covering software defined data center, data infrastructure, virtual, cloud, containers, converged, hyper-converged server, storage, I/O network, performance and data protection among other topics.

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September and October 2016 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

Welcome to the September and October Server StorageIO Update Newsletter covering IT and Data Infrastructure spanning hardware, software, cloud, managed and software defined data infrastructure topics. The post September and October 2016 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Gaming Trends of the Past, 2016 and Beyond

Galido

Virtual Reality and Immersive Gaming. With improved hardware capabilities, 3D technologies and virtual reality is becoming more and more popular in gaming. With improved hardware capabilities, 3D technologies and virtual reality is becoming more and more popular in gaming.

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