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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

GeekWire

It should be able to produce at least 50 megawatts of power following a yearlong ramp up period (by comparison, the average wind farm in Washington has about a 150 megawatt capacity). The company is also working with partners to develop large-scale hydrogen-powered generators for data center backup. gigawatts of power.

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Military Tips On Business Resiliency

Cloud Musings

Years of conflict have taught the military how to build resiliency and researchers with the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have actually developed a scale to rate psychological traits that promote resilience. So how should a company build up resilience against a cyberattack?

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Weekly Update 6-17-2019: All About Ansible

Linux Academy

Ansible uses YAML to describe your automation jobs, which is easy to learn in comparison to other languages because it looks very similar to plain English. Apple is shaking up the foundations of UI development with SwiftUI and raising developer eyebrows with a new default shell on MacOS. Why is it considered to be the simplest?

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Apple iPad vs the Blackberry Playbook

Sean Daniel

and I thought it would be great to do a little bit of a comparison now that I’ve played with it for a bit. So let’s get down to business, my impressions and comparisons between the iPad (3rd generation) and the Playbook 2.0. RIM needs to incent developers. This comparison is helpful. 2/05/2013 8:10 AM.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership. Saving money.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008.

Sean Daniel

Today we see a lot of partners put WHS v1 into small business for the PC Backup integration. Breckenridge fills this gap for businesses allowing you to Domain Join Breckenridge to your SBS 2008/SBS 2011 Standard domains to allow backup for up to 25 computers, and additional storage for up to 25 users. Posted by Sean Daniel.

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Why a “room-temperature superconductor” would be a huge deal

Vox

But the science of why it matters is, by comparison, relatively simple. The ability of these systems to instantaneously release a huge amount of power makes them useful as a backup in cases where there’s a sudden loss of power from more ordinary sources.

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