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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

Retail 52
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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. Ride sharing services have added driver/fleet capacity and accelerated speed-of-access for local transportation service.

Energy 52
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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

Intel server processors have historically delivered significantly better single-threaded CPU performance and lower power consumption than competing AMD processors since the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture in 2008. Intel became complacent over the past ten years, and ended up opening up a large opportunity for AMD.

Servers 46