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Jeff Bezos to hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5, anniversary of company’s creation

GeekWire

. “We chose that date because it’s sentimental for me, the day Amazon was incorporated in 1994, exactly 27 years ago,” Bezos said, addressing shareholders via webcast during his final annual meeting as CEO, held virtually due to the pandemic. “He has the energy needed to keep alive in us what has made us special. .”

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Interop Liveblog: The Post-Cloud

Scott Lowe

He draws some comparisons between the use of full-machine virtualization (aka VMs) with the use of Linux containers—not that one is better or worse than the other, but that they are different and therefore have different characteristics and different use cases. The next answer was to use multiple virtual servers, for more density.

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Slack deal would pit Salesforce against Microsoft, with Tableau acquisition as a potential blueprint

GeekWire

Slack has partnered with Amazon Web Services to upgrade its video-calling infrastructure, but virtual meetings aren’t a core part of its feature set, leaving an opening for its rivals. billion acquisition of Tableau closed last year. .” Salesforce spent $4.6

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Scott Lowe

Vadim Eisenberg has two articles that describe how to integrate external services into an Istio service mesh. The first article covers integrating external web services ; the second article discusses consuming external TCP services. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Virtualization. Networking.

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Microsoft and Quantinuum report a way to turn down the noise in quantum computing

GeekWire

In a technical blog posting , Microsoft’s Dennis Tom and Krysta Svore wrote that they used a qubit-virtualization system to improve the reliability of Quantinuum’s ion-trap hardware by a factor of 800. . “With this system, we ran more than 14,000 individual experiments without an error,” Zander said.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub. But wait, now Ready Player One isn’t a metaverse and virtual worlds don’t have to be 3D?

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Fountainhead: Follow IT's Money: A Survey of IT Financial.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. CloudRows - (Israel) Provides cost control for Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts; enables you to be sure you are operating within your IT budget, and notifies you before a budget exception is about to occur. Web Services). Virtual Geek.

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