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Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet. Large clouds, predominant today, often have functions distributed over multiple locations from central servers. If the connection to the user is relatively close, it may be designated an edge server.

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Microsoft To Linux Community: “We Are An Open Source Company”

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17 years ago ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux a cancer. That statement still casts clouds of doubt over the company and a lingering anxiety among Linux and open source enthusiasts. But hey, Ballmer loves Linux now! So does Microsoft!

Whether or not one chooses to believe it, Microsoft continues to bang that drum with both actions and words; most recently at the 2019 Red Hat Forum in Australia.

Microsoft Australia CTO Lee Hickin addressed the attendees with a message about the company’s transformation and its continued commitment to open source.

In attendance was ZDNet, which captured some key quotes: “We’re in an amazing place right now with a leader like Satya who really understands what it means to think about where we need to be for our customers, to really transform the company from being essentially the proprietary software company, to being an open source company,” he said.

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6 Customer Experience Trends Every Company Must Get Ready

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Companies who bring many of these customer service trends to life are the ones who are going to be successful. Nike is one of those companies. They invested in a value-added app that helps customers track their runs. At the same time, the app provides value to the customer, it’s providing information about customers to Nike. So, after a certain amount of miles run, the app might suggest to the customer it’s time for a new pair of Nikes. Through augmented reality, the customer can point the app to their foot and try on different styles. Then, it’s able to size your foot perfectly, and you can place the order and get your new trainers in record time. And for those that prefer a tangible experience, you can touch, feel, and smell their products in their flagship stores.

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Why We Need To Rethink Central Authority In The Age of Artificial Intelligence

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The systems that have prevailed in the past are not working. They have not served their citizens well. We have lost trust in these systems. If we are to create a future free of censorship and surveillance, we have a massive undertaking that awaits us. I have always believed that the function of the society was to set up the necessary systems to help individuals live good lives where they have an opportunity to achieve their dreams. This has been achieved through centralized solutions.

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Artificial Intelligence [AI] Bias Adds Complexity To Artificial Intelligence [AI] Systems

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AI bias is difficult to overcome. But it is a joint effort of corporations, researchers, lawmakers, and the media. When many eyes are on the issues, we may have a lot more data, opinions about the data, and judgments passed, but with “common sense,” we come closer to equality, to human kindness, and to the protection of our constitutional liberties. That to me is an opportunity to exercise our democratic process.

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What Is Unstructured Data And Why Is It So Important To Businesses? An Easy Explanation For Anyone

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Unstructured data can’t be easily stored in a traditional column-row database or spreadsheet like a Microsoft Excel table. It’s therefore more difficult to analyse and not easily searchable, which is why it wasn’t useful for organizations until recent years. Today, however, we have unstructured data analytics tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that were created specifically to access the insights available from unstructured data.

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What is Hadoop?

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Development of Hadoop began when forward-thinking software engineers realised that it was quickly becoming useful for anybody to be able to store and analyze datasets far larger than can practically be stored and accessed on one physical storage device (such as a hard disk).

This is partly because as physical storage devices become bigger it takes longer for the component that reads the data from the disk (which in a hard disk, would be the “head”) to move to a specified segment. Instead, many smaller devices working in parallel are more efficient than one large one.

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A Founder Using Cloud Services To Save Family Businesses

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A fairly typical, frustrating experience led entrepreneur John Buni to found CleanCloud, a cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) business. Buni went to his local dry cleaner to pick up his shirt, except Buni couldn’t find his ticket. Without a ticket, the dry cleaner couldn’t find the shirt. Sound familiar? Buni had already

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Data Curiosity: How To Cultivate An Inquisitive Workforce

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As data is made available to more people within organizations, we’re seeing an increased emphasis on the importance of data literacy and data storytelling. Both of these data skills are essential to democratizing data and extracting value from your data investments. However, between these two skills sits another crucial ability

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Why Knowledge Bases Are The Next Big Thing

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Most organizations are filled to bursting with databases, most specifically dedicated to supporting one particular application or another. There’s also data in documents, spreadsheets, and other data stores, and that it’s just a matter of laziness that most of this data is not available to other parts of an organization. Buy the right tool (or hire enough open source developers to build the right tool) and you achieve digital nirvana.

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Scaling Cloud Services Is Key To Growing A Digital Business

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The challenges of scaling cloud services to grow a digital business are many and are well-explained in the recent research report, Remote Office Networks Pose Business and Reliability Risk A Survey of IT Professionals (27 pp., PDF, no opt-in), published on August 2019 by Dimensional Research in collaboration with Infoblox. This report provides valuable insights into why scaling cloud services is essential for growing a digital business. The study’s findings reflect how remote branch and production locations’ lack of IT security and site personnel are one of the most challenging constraints to overcome and keep growing their business. Please see page 22 of the study for specifics on the methodology.

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