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Thinking of moving off VMware? Gartner tallies cost of large-scale VMware migration

Network World

This includes acquisition of new software licenses and/or cloud expenses, hardware purchases (compute, storage), early termination costs related to the existing virtual environment, application testing/quality assurance and test equipment, the report reads.

Vmware 350
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FCC post-mortem on AT&T outage uncovers similar QA issues to those that plagued CrowdStrike

Network World

A February AT&T network outage that lasted 12 hours and affected all of its mobile network users was due to a misconfiguration that occurred during a “routine night maintenance” that failed to meet required quality assurance (QA) policies before it was deployed, according to a US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) post-mortem report.

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Big Data Quality Assurance

IT Toolbox

With promises of incredibly fast queries, many IT shops implemented one or more big data applications in combination with high-performance hardware and software suites. Results have been generally good: many installations report incredible decreases in query elapsed times, sometimes by factors of 100 or more.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Key skills for the role include resource allocation, risk and change management, quality assurance, communication, and leadership and team building. Systems engineer For organizations running complex hardware, software, and network systems, the role of a systems engineer is a vital part of daily operations.

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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Every business unit has a stake in the IT services, apps, networks, hardware, and software needed to meet business goals and objectives, and many of them are hiring their own technologists. But you’ll also find demand for quality assurance, DevOps, technical support, and software sales engineers.

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Going ‘AI native’ with in-house ChatGPT the MITRE way

CIO Business Intelligence

Youmans says MITRE’s aggressive embrace of ChatGPT will not only aid employees with their workloads and help produce reports faster, but it will also elevate the level of analysis due to MITRE’s significant hardware investment for data mining the nonprofit’s massive data repositories. We are developing security from the ground layer.

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO Business Intelligence

And there could be ancillary costs, such as the need for additional server hardware or data storage capacity. Here are some costs that will need to be included in your analysis: Hardware: Do I need to buy new hardware, or do I have capacity to run the software on existing servers and storage?

Software 328