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The box is open: AWS Center for Quantum Computing is definitely alive at Caltech

GeekWire

Quantum computing aims to take advantage of weird phenomena on the quantum scale that could address problems that are judged to be virtually unsolvable using classical computing’s binary, one-or-zero paradigm. Another Caltech luminary, John Preskill, joined Amazon’s quantum research effort last year. ”

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Fed Tech Roundup July 30

CTOvision

Emerging Threats: Provider of Open Source Threat Intelligence. AlienVault: Providing An Open Threat Exchange. FireEye: Purpose-built, Virtual Machine-based Security Platform. Data Act implementation hung up on definitions - FCW.com. InternetIdentity: Provider of ActiveTrust cyber threat data exchange.

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How Can CIOs Avoid Getting Locked Into One Vendor’s Cloud?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Making use of open source standards to write code is one way to prevent vendor lock-in. A lot of firms are moving down the abstraction scale and are familiar with containers and virtual machines. One thing a company can do to address the lock-in issue is to evaluate a more “uncoupled” architecture.

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My API story: Vodafone's API Architecture Guild

TM Forum

It is created on the open-source behaviors of transparency, participation, and efficacy with a role to provide the people, processes, guidelines, and tools to increase and support the adoption, usage, and development of TM Forum's industry-standard Open APIs across our digital landscape.

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Embracing public cloud isn’t easy for telcos

TM Forum

“We definitely need an end-to-end orchestration and automation platform.” “The challenge we face here is: How do you differentiate if we’re all running open source with standard interfaces…and we’re all going to look the same?” ” he asked. ” Watch the webinar:

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Using Puppet for Account Management

Scott Lowe

It’s been over four months since my last post on open source Puppet , when I posted some updated multi-OS Puppet configurations. The key to making it work is the idea of a virtual resource. The Puppet Labs site does a much better job of explaining virtual resources. Realize the virtual user resources where needed.

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Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated — remotely — from Y Combinator

GeekWire

Silicon Valley-based YC accepted a record 350 new companies for its winter program, which participated in a virtual Demo Day March 23. What was it like going through the Y Combinator program virtually? Building features and support onto their open-source model is a big part of what differentiates them from their competitors, they said.

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