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NGA and DigitalGlobe Release Powerful Application To Community Under Open Source License

CTOvision

From NGA''s Press Release: NGA, DigitalGlobe application a boon to raster data storage, processing. Sharing the application with the open source community helps accelerate its potential to become the standard for storing, enriching and analyzing massive amounts of raster data in a distributed cloud environment. January 13, 2015.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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Army Corps of Engineers closes SpaceX Starbase permit application citing lack of information

The Verge

The US Army Corps of Engineers has closed a permit application for a proposed expansion of SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas — a potential snag in the company’s plans to add new launch and landing pads to the area, as well as substantially grow the site. Without the requested information, the permit process cannot continue.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

NLP applications Machine translation is a powerful NLP application, but search is the most used. Transformer models take applications such as language translation and chatbots to a new level. Licensed by MIT, SpaCy was made with high-level data science in mind and allows deep data mining. Amazon Comprehend.

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HP Awarded $32.4 Million Cybersecurity Contract by U.S. Department of Homeland Security

CTOvision

HP captured the largest portion of the first task order awarded under the DHS CDM program to provide software security product licenses for 33 U.S. Architecture CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Government Application security Government agency HP HP Enterprise Security Products HP Enterprise Services Vulnerability (computing)'

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to contingent labor in particular, CIOs are often paying above-market rates or engaging with a more expensive class of contractor than necessary, says West Monroe’s Tanowitz, whose analysis has revealed opportunities to save between 6% and 30%. Several methods can help IT leaders scour for value leakage in IT services deals.

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Five Shades Darker? – What The Diageo “Indirect Access” Judgement Really Means For SAP Customers

Forrester IT

At last, exactly two years later, the long-awaited sequel to my hit, if overly censored, blog post: Five Shades Of Grey (How software buyers and license managers should be compliant without being submissive). My analysis, subject to the usual IANAL disclaimer, is that the real implications are: Read more Categories: SAP.

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