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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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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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Happy 15th, Tasktop! Happy 5th, Tasktop Hub!

Tasktop

“Connecting the world of software delivery” and “Software Lifecycle Integration” and “Value Stream Integration” In 2011, driven by customer demand in conjunction with Sales and Presales at Tasktop, an MVP of what would eventually become our initial integration technology, Tasktop Sync was created.

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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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What is Kubernetes?

Dynatrace

When I first started working at Dynatrace in 2011, our customers were using the Dynatrace solution to get deep end-to-end visibility into environments we now refer to as monolithic. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure.