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Exafunction aims to reduce AI dev costs by abstracting away hardware

TechCrunch

According to Run:AI, 38% of companies had an annual budget for AI infrastructure — including hardware, software and cloud fees — exceeding $1 million as of October 2021. Prior to co-founding Exafunction, Chen was a software engineer at Facebook, where he helped to build the tooling for devices like the Oculus Quest.

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Invoking IT to help revitalize Indigenous languages at risk of extinction

CIO

So, they spent three years coordinating resources, requirements, budgets, and technology to map out the best approach to digitizing the language revitalization project. Seeing the creative ways other communities put the software to use has only helped the software improve, Baldwin says. “We

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Trio Of New, Cloud-Native IPOs Highlight Push To Modernize Digital Infrastructure In A Post-Covid World

Battery Ventures

In the current recessionary environment, most enterprises are even more interested in wringing costs out of their IT budgets—and thus even more focused on shifting apps and services to the cloud, where they don’t have to host the services themselves. Many enterprises did this cloud-dabbling to save money on certain functions and processes.

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11 Most Effective Data Analytics Tools For 2020

Altexsoft

Excellent performance speed with super-fast data refreshes. Continuous software improvements and upgrades. Oracle certainly represents elite data analytics software, but it does come with a price tag. But this is not everything as you might also expect the platform to: Improve Hadoop cluster performance.

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How do you measure ROI for building custom software for the automation of your business process?

Sunflower Lab

Moreover, the business also needs to set its expectations from the custom software so as to assess the software’s success. While automating your business processes through custom software development, you need to decide upon the key performance indicators (KPI’s) for the software’s performance.

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DIY: The Hidden Risks of Open Source Network Flow Analyzers

Kentik

From hardware to software, people have been grappling with the buy vs. build dilemma for years. However, as enterprises and service providers put their 2018 tech budgets into action, we’re here to point out one DIY networking trend where the fine print is worth reading: Open source network flow analyzers. Kentik’s SaaS Approach.