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Would Uber be so intriguing if we thought of it as the next American Airlines?

The Agile Manager

Suppose for a minute that self-driving cars become commercially available. The fleet owners - firms like International Lease Finance - are asset-heavy companies that buy and insure aircraft from manufacturers (Boeing, Bombardier, Airbus) and lease them to airlines who operate them to deliver people and parcels.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Optimizing placements through combinatorial optimization What the OS task scheduler is doing is essentially solving a resource allocation problem: I have X threads to run but only Y CPUs available, how do I allocate the threads to the CPUs to give the illusion of concurrency? It has 8 physical hyperthreaded cores, split on 2 NUMA sockets.

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AI for everyone - How companies can benefit from the advance of machine learning

All Things Distributed

As a result, there is a critical mass of data available. That is now changing, as packages of AI and ML services, frameworks and tools are today available to all sorts of companies and organizations, including those that don't have dedicated research groups in this field. They form the basis for new business models.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

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IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

Dynatrace

The cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry,” wrote anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in a 2022 article from MIT. “A As we onboard more customers, the platform requires more infrastructure, leading to increased carbon emissions.  That’s why we developed Carbon Impact.

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