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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Modernize cloud operations to transform the way you work

Dynatrace

But modern cloud infrastructure is large, complex, and dynamic — and over time, this cloud complexity can impede innovation. When the federal CIO Cloud-First Initiative came out in 2011, VA decided to start migrating applications to the cloud. Development teams can innovate faster with higher quality.

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Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)

All Things Distributed

In 2011, AWS was the first cloud provider to launch an isolated infrastructure Region designed to meet the stringent requirements of government agencies and other highly regulated industries when it opened the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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Tasktop’s Bookshelf

Tasktop

“In this leader’s guide to digital transformation, you’ll get practical, actionable information on building an employee and customer-obsessed culture that drives speed and efficiency while leveraging technology to sell better products and services.”. For more information, visit: [link]. Author: Eric Ries. Authors: Eliyahu M.

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Everything as Code

Dynatrace

And with today’s increasing financial, availability, performance and innovation requirements meaning applications need to be geographically dispersed to constantly changing dynamic powerhouses, it has become simply not possible to provision, update, monitor and decommissions them by only leveraging manual processes. Interested in next steps?

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Embark on a journey towards Autonomous Cloud Management with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

At Dynatrace, we went through such a transformation ourselves, back in 2011 when we saw the need to create a new platform that was purpose-built for these dynamic, cloud-native IT environments. The Dynatrace journey. But when we first embarked on this journey, we looked like a very traditional software company: Two releases per year.

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