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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Perforce Software buys Puppet. Perforce Software, a privately held provider of software development tools, has agreed to buy the infrastructure automation software platform Puppet. Perforce already owns development tools such as Helix and the testing tools, including Perfecto and BlazeMeter.

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What a Zoom cashier 8,000 miles away can tell us about the future of work

Vox

Happy Cashier’s “virtual assistants” make $3 per hour, according to the New York Times. It was around this same time that offshoring , or sending jobs overseas, started to come into fashion. One potential target is software development, says Sytsma. Or, these days, the Philippines.)

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Dissecting Alstom’s three-part IT strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI is very fashionable at the moment. We’ve also been using immersive virtual reality and augmented reality technologies for a long time. In fact, in Madrid, we have one of the main centers of excellence in software development. Can it also help you? What other disruptive technologies are you involved with?

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Top 10 Transformational Impacts of the Cloud in 2013

Cloud Musings

20, 2012 — NJVC ® , an information technology solutions provider headquartered in northern Virginia and supplier of Cloudcuity™ AppDeployer , and Virtual Global , a provider of cloud-enabled enterprise IT solutions based in northern. software developers will turn to PaaS for integrating disparate Web.

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Full Stack Journey Episode #3: Jonathan Frappier

Scott Lowe

It seemed to Jonathan that supporting virtualization and public cloud environments was the direction to head, and he needed to get a better grasp on software development. He recommends access to hands-on learning on some form or fashion for everyone (home lab, cloud resources, lab at work, etc.). Divide and conquer.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. The German startup SimScale makes use of this trend.

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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack

Virtualized Greek

We aren’t looking at developer heavy environments such as Paypal, Netflix etc. We are looking at the enterprise that is highly virtualized, which looking at the market means VMware or Hyper-v with or KVM and others to a much lessor extent. I believe OpenStack see’s application developer’s as the ultimate customer.

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