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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

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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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? We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP).

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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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The Power of Integrated Analytics Within an IMDG

ScaleOut Software

Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use.

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The Power of Integrated Analytics Within an IMDG

ScaleOut Software

Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use.

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From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact

Dynatrace

Cloud computing has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. General availability is planned for the second quarter of 2023. If you’re interested in receiving updates about Carbon Impact or would consider being part of our Preview program, please contact your account team or send us an email.

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