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The US Leads In Public Cloud Services, But Other Regions Are Catching Up

Forrester IT

Explosive growth in cloud applications has depressed software license sales, and cloud platforms have upended the traditional on-premises server and storage market. In response, traditional software and hardware vendors are moving to the cloud via both acquisitions and launches of new cloud services. Read more.

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Top 10 business applications stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

Indirect licensing of SAP software was the big story, with SAP’s victory over Diageo in the High Court proving a tinderbox. AI, machine learning and blockchain oscillated between hype and reality

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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The Problem With Facial Recognition Systems

The Accidental Successful CIO

Instead, all an employee has to do to gain access to an area or an application is to show a computer their face and then they are in. An example of this are the drivers for Uber Technologies who must regularly prove they are licensed account holders by taking selfies on their phones and uploading them to the company.

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Seattle-based Icosavax, which is developing COVID-19 vaccines, files for IPO 4 years after launch

GeekWire

Icosavax creates virus-like particles with technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. Icosavax filed a clinical trial application in Belgium in June for its RSV candidate and plans to initiate trials later this year, according to a company filing with the U.S. Icosavax Photo).

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

NLP applications Machine translation is a powerful NLP application, but search is the most used. Transformer models take applications such as language translation and chatbots to a new level. Licensed by MIT, SpaCy was made with high-level data science in mind and allows deep data mining. Amazon Comprehend.

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

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