Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2024

Servers/Hardware Alex Ellis provides some details on his workflow for booting Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe. Tom Hummel finds himself veering back into a hardware-based home lab (instead of a cloud-based lab). A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

The first is to run transaction-intensive banking applications, including bank statements, deposits, mobile banking, debit-card processing, and loan payments. The second is to host mobile applications, containers, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications — what Sonnenstein calls “acting as a full-fledged member of the modern universe.”.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Built upon the foundational research powering Google’s impressive Gemini models , Google Gemma AI is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to open-source AI development. Google Gemma AI represents a suite of lightweight language models released for open-source use. What is Google Gemma AI?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

As with many data-hungry workloads, the instinct is to offload LLM applications into a public cloud, whose strengths include speedy time-to-market and scalability. Inferencing funneled through RAG must be efficient, scalable, and optimized to make GenAI applications useful.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Maximizing machine learning: OctoML uses machine learning to help organizations build machine learning and AI models and applications. The University of Washington spinout helps optimize and fine tune performance of such applications.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The open-source nature of Ferret invites collaboration and contributions from the AI community, fostering innovation and development in multimodal AI ( Image credit ) What is Apple Ferret LLM? Ferret, an open-source multimodal large language model (LLM) developed by Apple Inc.

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CTOvision

MARCH 12, 2015

With its efficient use of commodity hardware and its ability to scale linearly, open-source Apache Hadoop is an ideal platform upon which to offload many data processing workloads. All reference using Hortonworks Data Platform to build an enterprise-level Hadoop platform. You can download this white paper by clicking here.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This week, Groq’s LPU astounded the tech community by executing open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) like Llama-2, which boasts 70 billion parameters, at an impressive rate of over 100 tokens per second. Furthermore, it demonstrated its prowess with Mixtral, achieving nearly 500 tokens per second per user.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The most popular LLMs in the enterprise today are ChatGPT and other OpenAI GPT models, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama 2, and Falcon, an open-source model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi best known for its support for languages other than English. Salesloft uses OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 to write the email, says Fields.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. I also enjoyed Ivan’s realistic take on rollbacks in a network automation environment. (TL;DR:

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CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2016

If those options weren’t enough, here comes the open hybrid cloud. An open hybrid cloud leverages the benefits of accessing data and processes across private and public implementations, while facilitating open source development. Providers are now offering services that combine IT assets in an open hybrid cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

For the enterprise, planning edge strategies and reaping their rewards is often a complex and challenging process, with myriad applications to deploy, a proliferation of hardware devices to manage, multiple data types and sources to integrate, and significant security risks to avoid.

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Kitaboo

MAY 23, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the fascinating world of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and explore how it is implemented in software applications. Gone are the days of clunky hardware-based DRM solutions that relied on physical tokens or specialized hardware components.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2017

As more and more of Facebook’s users are sharing online video and using games and other applications that require high-speed communications the need to interconnect their data centers has grown. This transmission rate is equivalent to what the major hardware vendors are currently offering. What All Of This Means For You.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 6, 2024

The reduced resource requirements of 1-bit LLMs could enable AI applications on a wider range of devices, even those with limited memory or computational power. cleverly uses components similar to the open-source LLaMA model for easy integration ( Image credit ) See the detailed formula on Microsoft’s 1-Bit LLM research paper.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

These leaders succeed with these real-time AI capabilities in large part because of their ability to aggregate massive amounts of real-time data from customers, devices, sensors, or partners as it moves through applications. And they all rely on the open-source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ®.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The open source ko project has applied to become a CNCF Sandbox project. Operating Systems/Applications. Mike McQuaid talks about entitlement in open source. I think some of the lessons in this article could apply to a lot of different scenarios, not just open source usage.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2013

WiFi, RFID, Z-Wave, Zigbee, Bluetooth, cordless phones, and many, many more applications and appliances operate on these frequency bands. In addition to the hardware, very effective and fairly robust software has been released as well (GnuRadio).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Further improvements can be made by restricting queries to proven prompts as well as incorporating open source tools such as Langkit and Guardrails, or proprietary products like Galileo. Workflows, user-training and technological path-dependency act as brakes on the deployment of new hardware and software solutions.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Access security requirements define what individual users and applications can do with the data they receive. The goal is to provide unified authorization for all Hadoop services and third-party applications (such as Spark, Pig, MR, BI Tools, etc). Navigator Encrypt runs transparently to the applications running above.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2022

Just a few years ago, data scientists worked with the command line and a few good open source packages. The notebook code itself is open source, making it merely the beginning of a number of exciting bigger projects for curating data, supporting coursework, or just sharing ideas. The scale is also shifting.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Microsoft is also promising to update this kernel through Windows Update, and it will be open source so developers can create their own WSL kernel and contribute changes. WSL 2 won’t include Linux GUI application support or GPU hardware acceleration just yet, as Microsoft is promising both of these features for future Windows updates.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2021

.” That makes the International Space Station an extreme case study for edge computing, the concept of bringing storage and processing closer to the source of data to improve speed and reduce the bandwidth needed for cloud computing. Microsoft Azure corporate vice president. “And space, of course, gives you a great understanding.”

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A quantum hardware engineer works on one of the dilution refrigerators used at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. “We’re in the building,” Painter, the AWS center’s head of quantum hardware, told GeekWire. Reducing the error rates will be a requirement for many of the applications for quantum computers.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. This post on using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and Envoy together shows how to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) for a simple application. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 19, 2024

NVIDIA’s strategic goal with NIM is to foster a network of AI-prepared containers that are built upon its hardware infrastructure, with these specialized microservices acting as the principal software component for organizations eager to accelerate their AI initiatives. What does NVDIA NIM really do?

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Kitaboo

MAY 19, 2020

The Open Source Foundation aims to develop technology for expediting the adoption of ePUB3 and the Open Web Platform by the Digital Publishing Industry. It strives to deliver leading-edge functionality that is fully specified, free, open, and interoperable. x, audiobooks, Web Pub, and image-based books such as Manga.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Whether you’re in the process of developing web applications, mobile apps, or any other software solution, it’s crucial to recognize that performance and scalability are intertwined. Performance testing can help answer questions such as: How fast does the application respond under different levels of user traffic?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Swiber shows how to use Postman to deploy an application onto a Kubernetes cluster. Operating Systems/Applications. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. LaunchBar is, in my opinion, an extremely useful macOS application.

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Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. This is especially true when compared to making a virtual machine with its own OS for each application.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 2, 2009

In this environment, it sure is tempting to chuck Microsoft’s Office and web products and their complicated Enterprise and Select Agreements in favor of open source equivalents. And the software for open source is on the web and freely available for such hackers to view! But this developer community is nebulous.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

But despite all the money flowing into ML projects, most organizations are struggling to get their ML models and applications working on production systems. . These problems are exacerbated by a lack of hardware designed for ML use cases. A partial solution lies in the adoption of MLOps.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2020

” WiBotic’s power management software can work with the hardware to optimize battery use for whole fleets of robots, without a human ever having to handle a plug. “We have customers in about 13 countries across five continents, from drones to mobile robots to unique battery-powered IoT applications.”

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2016

From their manual that includes: Machine intelligence : Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, including both core technologies and industry applications. New organizational models: Bringing software development methodologies to other applications (e.g., Media distribution: Over-the-top television.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

In the past, one option was to use open-source data analytics platforms to analyze data using on-premises infrastructure. Taking this a step further, organizations can achieve the holy grail of hybrid cloud with applications and data that can be moved, managed and secured seamlessly across locations to provide the best of both worlds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s also a new adoption dashboard for Microsoft Viva to help track how the introduction of Copilot features in Microsoft 365 applications is changing the way users work. Enterprise Applications, Generative AI, Microsoft Here’s some of the top AI news CIOs will want to take away from Microsoft Ignite 2023.

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