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What is software automation? Optimize the software lifecycle with intelligent automation

Dynatrace

Intelligent software automation can give organizations a competitive edge by analyzing historical and compute workload data in real time to automatically provision and deprovision virtual machines and Kubernetes. These include mobile, web, Internet of Things, and application programming interfaces. Digital experience.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

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Why OpenStack is like a Crowdfunded Viking Movie

VoltDB

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

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Why OpenStack is like a Crowdfunded Viking Movie

VoltDB

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Remove privileges.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

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What Is a Workload in Cloud Computing

Scalegrid

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

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