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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

GeekWire

” It’s called the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, using the industry lingo for a basic type of hardware that relies on cloud-based storage and processing rather than a beefy CPU and hard drive on a traditional computer. Customers can choose to pay either fixed monthly subscription fees or usage-based costs based on hourly metering.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Thus, these services will begin to commoditize, and with the popularity of multicloud, core services such as storage and computing will be pretty much the same from cloud to cloud.” Most recently the company launched gen AI-based services aimed at healthcare and life science organizations.

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The University of Phoenix and Expedient: Making the Transformation from a Legacy Datacenter to Software-Defined Excellence

CIO Business Intelligence

John Sperling in 1976 to help working adults enhance their carriers, the University of Phoenix offers accredited online courses through 18 academic programs, including ones for business, counseling, education, and healthcare. The team also had to address the very old versions of Linux and Oracle still in use.

Software 104
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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

CTOvision

Dr. Daniel Duffy is head of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS, Code 606.2), which provides high performance computing, storage, networking, and data systems designed to meet the specialized needs of the Earth science modeling communities. High Performance Computing Lead, NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS). Eddie Garcia.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

CTOvision

Dr. Daniel Duffy is head of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS, Code 606.2), which provides high performance computing, storage, networking, and data systems designed to meet the specialized needs of the Earth science modeling communities. High Performance Computing Lead, NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS). Eddie Garcia.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). So, not only can you define a virtual server instantly, you can define a *physical* server (maybe a virtual host, or a physical machine) down to I/O, NICs, Storage and Network.

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NFS could be the librarian you are looking for

Dataconomy

It paved the way for seamless file access, akin to how local storage is accessed, even when the files are physically stored on remote servers. NFS defines a standardized method for storing and retrieving files from various storage devices across a network, promoting interoperability and efficiency. Let’s find out!

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