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The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer

Coding Horror

The cloud got cheaper, and faster. But it's still the cloud, and that means it isn't exactly cheap , because it is, after all, someone else's computer that you pay for the privilege of renting. But wait … what if you could put your own computer "in the cloud"? i7-7500u 2.7-3.5 Ghz, 6c / 12t.

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12 ‘best practices’ IT should avoid at all costs

CIO

Often, it’s the adoption of what’s described as “industry best practices” by people who ought to know better but don’t, probably because they’ve never had to do the job. From establishing internal customers to instituting charge-backs to insisting on ROI, a lot of this advice looks plausible when viewed from 50,000 feet or more.

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Cloud Data Security: Encryption at Rest Best Practices

Xebia

While the benefits of encryption at rest are often clear for on-premises drives and portable devices, it can be challenging to discern the added value for Cloud resources. Cloud: “It’s just someone else’s computer” While I am not a supporter of this simplistic quote, it makes sense to call it for this topic.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? And today, the cloud is obviously here… I mean, despite what some people may think about cloud adoption 2. I want to tell the cloud to connect service A and B!

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

CIO

When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. The beauty of this may be that you’re hiring boomers whose attitude is, ‘I just want this job.

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Making AI accessible leads to greater innovation

CIO

Unsafe environment” scenarios include people fighting, a group of agitated persons, people following someone else, and arguments or other abnormal behaviour. PwC research suggests that AI could contribute as much as $15.7 trillion by 2030, and by singularly responsible for a 26 per cent boost in the GDP of local economies.

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Xesto is a foot scanning app that simplifies shoe gifting

TechCrunch

It has a long-standing research collaboration with the University of Toronto, alma mater of its CEO and co-founder Sophie Howe (its other co-founder and chief scientist, Afiny Akdemir, is also pursuing a Math PhD there) — and was actually founded back in 2015 to explore business ideas in human computer interaction. mm accuracy.

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