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BrandPost: Right-sizing Public Cloud Instances Can Cut Costs 20%-40%

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In a recent post, we noted that many companies are struggling to control their public cloud costs, even though a key driver for moving to the public cloud in the first place was often to cut infrastructure expenses.

There is a proven way to slash public cloud costs by as much as 20-40%, however: by right-sizing cloud instances.If thatrsquo;s the case, why isnrsquo;t everyone already doing it? There are a number of reasons – ranging from the psychological to the technical – why right-sizing cloud instances can be challenging. Most fundamentally, application owners are prone to over-provision IT resources in a bid to avoid resource shortages that can cause app performance issues and unhappy customers. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: The 80/20 data science dilemma

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The emergence of cloud has led to an explosion of data that has left data scientists in high demand.

A job that didnrsquo;t exist a decade ago has topped Glassdoorrsquo;s ranking of best roles in America for two years in a row, based on salary, job satisfaction, and number of job openings.
It was even dubbed the “sexiest job of the 21st centuryrdquo; by the Harvard Business Review.Though growing in population, data scientists are scarce and busy.

A recent study shows that demand for data scientists and analysts is projected to grow by 28 percent by 2020.

This is on top of the current market need.

According to LinkedIn, there are more than 11,000 data scientist job openings in the US as of late August. Unless something changes, this skills gap will continue to widen.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google Home’s biggest flaw fixed: Support for reminders finally arrives

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It's hard to believe, but Google Home has gone a whole year with zero reminders support.

Star Trek: Discovery is getting pirated a lot

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The first two episodes of Discovery are both among the 20 most pirated TV shows.

Equifax CEO falls on his sword weeks after credit biz admits mega-breach

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Well, what else could he do? Equifax's chairman and chief exec today resigned, weeks after the consumer credit reporting agency admitted a massive security breach.…

Novartis wins 1st place at the SAMS Europe Award 2017 with “Cloud SAM for Salesforce”

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License Control for Salesforce from Aspera enables cloud cost optimization.Aachen/Berlin, Germany, September 26, 2017 - Last night in Berlin, Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical group and a client of Aspera, was awarded 1st place in the "Tool/Software" ...

Firefox takes a Quantum leap forward with new developer edition

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A new look, better dev tools, and up to twice the performance in key benchmarks.

What’s new in React 16 JavaScript UI library

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React 16, the latest version of the popular JavaScript library for building UIs, goes live today, with a rewritten core for better performance.Dubbed “React Fiberrdquo; during its development, React 16 is a rewrite of the React core, improving perceived responsiveness for complex applications via a new reconciliation algorithm.[ Also on InfoWorld: 6 best JavaScript IDEs and 10 best JavaScript editors. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorldrsquo;s App Dev Report newsletter. ]Key features of the React 16 include:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FCC declares that USA’s wireless competition problem has been solved

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Ajit Pai's FCC says mobile market is competitive, in change from Obama years.

Vacuums, fans… and an electric car? Dyson promises an EV in 2020

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The company knows how to make electric motors and batteries.

Bossie Awards 2017: The best machine learning tools

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The best open source software for machine learningImage by IDGItrsquo;s just possible that yoursquo;ve heard something about “machine learning.” Safely ignored by most of us these past many years, machine learning has clearly come into its own in the cloud era, with so much data now available to chew on.
So many tools and libraries for machine learning are popping up, we felt compelled to break them out into their own category.  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Bossie Awards 2017: The best networking and security software

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The best open source networking and security softwareImage by IDGWe seem to be witnessing a renaissance in open source security.
Security projects swarmed the Bossies last year, and the hits kept coming in 2017.

Along with the many cool tools for security pros, our winners include software that tracks vulnerabilities in the open source libraries used to build software. Open source, heal thyself! To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Bossie Awards 2017: The best software development tools

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The best open source software development toolsImage by IDGNative developers, web developers, IoT developers, developers who ride the JVM, even developers who long to build on blockchainmdash;there is something for everyone in this yearrsquo;s Bossies.

Click on to read about our favorite platforms, frameworks, programming languages, and other tools of 2017. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Bossie Awards 2017: The best cloud computing software

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The best open source software for cloud computingImage by IDGContainers, microservices, functions as a servicemdash;itrsquo;s a light, fast, devopsy new world of distributed systems, service meshes, and “infrastructure as coderdquo; that just reeks of complexity. Luckily, the brilliant engineers at Google, Lyft, Uber, et. al. are solving the hard problems and sharing the code. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Bossie Awards 2017: The best databases and analytics tools

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The best open source databases and data analytics toolsImage by IDGWersquo;ve watched a parade of NoSQL databases march through the Bossies the last few years. Well, SQL has had enough! Our 2017 winners include two examples of scale-out SQL databases, along with the usual gang of analytics-oriented projects from the Apache Software Foundation, a name that has become synonymous with big data.  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Gov contractor nicked on suspicion of Official Secrets Act breach

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65-yr-old woman being held in London The Metropolitan Police has announced the arrest of a government contractor after a tip-off.…

TalkTalk once told GCHQ: Cyberattack? We’d act fast to get sports back up

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National Cyber Crime Unit spills on pre-2015 megahack convo Prior to its disastrous 2015 mega hack, TalkTalk had told GCHQ that should an attack occur, its main focus would be to restore "online sports streaming", according to the head of operations at the National Cyber Crime Unit.…

Amazon’s Echo Show can’t play YouTube videos anymore

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Removing the largest source of online video from Amazon's only Echo with a screen

Here’s what to look for in Elon Musk’s big rocket speech Friday

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We want to see how Musk and SpaceX get to Mars from here.

IDG Contributor Network: If you don’t make a reservation, you’re going to need to tip the maicirc;tre d’

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The pricing models for compute resources in the cloud can be complicated.
Some (but not all) variations include the following: On-demand instances Reserved/prepaid capacity Spot instances Dedicated instances On-demand pricing is pretty straightforw...
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