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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. is access to hardware devices. Delayed five years.

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Strategic IT Does More than Assume Technology Risk, it Mitigates Business Risk

The Agile Manager

This might be a data centre where hardware uptime is guaranteed to process transactions, a timesheeting capability that is available on-demand, or development of a custom application to analyse asset backed securities. Look for another Capital Markets paper in July 2007. Traditionally, IT has been a risk assumer.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Egnyte was founded in 2007.