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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO

SustainableIT.org recently released its first set of IT-based environmental, social and governance standards to provide CIOs with precise technical guidance about how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce energy consumption. What the bigger cloud providers can do is negotiate better contracts with clean energy providers. “By

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Radar trends to watch: May 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

There was one announcement after another; most new models were larger than the previous ones, several claimed to be significantly more energy efficient. trillion parameters–but requiring significantly less energy to train than GPT-3. It’s also good to see that energy efficiency has become part of the conversation.

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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms

Kaseya

In a public cloud, all of the hardware, software, networking and storage infrastructure is owned and managed by the cloud service provider. The public cloud infrastructure is heavily based on virtualization technologies to provide efficient, scalable computing power and storage. What Is a Public Cloud? Easy Training and Certifications.

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Making Sense of IoT Platforms: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Cisco

Altexsoft

Namely, these layers are: perception layer (hardware components such as sensors, actuators, and devices; transport layer (networks and gateway); processing layer (middleware or IoT platforms); application layer (software solutions for end users). Perception layer: IoT hardware. How an IoT system works. Source: IoT Analytics.

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Radar trends to watch: March 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Face recognition in virtual reality: In a fascinating combination of work from AI and neurology, researchers have used EEGs to detect facial expressions and used those expressions to control a virtual reality environment. Serverless” development is declining. Programming. It is not open source, and is now entering private beta.

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Radar trends to watch: September 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FaunaDB is a distributed document database designed for serverless architectures. Facebook’s Time cards are an open-source (code and hardware) solution for accurate time keeping. Time crystals are a theoretical construct that has a structure that constantly changes but repeats over time, without requiring additional energy.

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Radar Trends to Watch: September 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This could be a step towards making virtual reality less virtual. Cerebras, the company that released a gigantic (850,000 core) processor, claims their chip will democratize the hardware needed to train and run very large language models by eliminating the need to distribute computation across thousands of smaller GPUs.