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How public sector organisations can take complexity out of the cloud

CIO

Educational institutions are continuing to accelerate their use of technologies such as e-learning, VR and AI-driven chatbots in order to facilitate remote and hybrid learning. to provide AWS services to institutions through the OCRE framework.

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PGA of America swings for the public cloud

CIO

“Every bit about that is waste, and by going to AWS, we don’t even know anything about that anymore,” says Scott, who was recently promoted to be PGA of America’s first-ever CTO thanks to his work on the transformation. Now, all internal systems have been shut down and most of PGA’s data is running on AWS or SaaS.

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Incredibuild gets $140M to speed up games and other software development with distributed processing tech

TechCrunch

The company found early traction with games companies, whose heavy use of media required lots of code processing; longer-term, other companies that deal with graphics, AR, VR, artificial intelligence and other work-intensive loads came to the company as well. Watch this space.

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Daily Crunch: UK-based news site The Guardian under ransomware attack, editor says

TechCrunch

Christopher Lee (yes that Christopher Lee, Saruman in “Lord of the Rings”) recorded a heavy metal Christmas album , which is truly god-awful. In July, the Federal Trade Commission sued Meta over its proposed acquisition of VR company Within. Trap Christmas is a thing. Spinal Tap also did a holiday song , which…I mean.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

BigQuery Omni can execute queries across multiple clouds, including AWS and Azure. Here’s a glimpse at Facebook’s VR glasses. They are still proof-of-concept, but this prototype (along with Apple’s rumored product, and Google’s continued interest ) means that nobody can count VR out. Technology and Society.

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10 lessons from the AWS hackathon

Stackery

This weekend I had the opportunity to participate in the AWS Hackathon in Portland. My AWS Hackathon Takeaways. AWS Lambda is the future. There may be organization-specific roadblocks to adopting AWS Lambda right now and therefore, it might not be the right fit for your team at this particular juncture.

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Principales tecnologías que irrumpirán en los negocios en 2025

CIO

Skillington señala Snowflake, AWS Redshift, BigQuery de Google Cloud Platform y Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics como algunas de las herramientas que ofrecen a las organizaciones los medios para consolidar, acceder y analizar grandes cantidades de datos. Krishna Prasad, CIO de UST, está de acuerdo.

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