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- JBoss - JBoss is a division of Red Hat that provides support for the JBoss open source application server...
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- F8 (Facebook F8) - F8 (pronounced F-eight) is Facebook's developer conference for those creating applications on the...
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- SAP MII (SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence) - SAP MII (SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence) is an application for synchronizing manu...
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- GPU supercomputer - A GPU supercomputer is a networked group of computers with multiple graphics processing units wor...
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Data Center
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- Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts - Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts are servers with virtual machine capacity dedicated to one Amazon Web ...
- Microsoft Azure Data Lake - Microsoft Azure Data Lake is a highly scalable data storage and analytics service hosted in Azure...
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IT Management
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- AribaPay - AribaPay is a system for electronic payments for goods and services on the SAP Ariba Network, a g...
- 3D XPoint - 3D XPoint is a storage technology that was jointly developed by Micron Technology and Intel. 3D X...
- backup as a service (BaaS) - Backup as a service uses external providers to deliver cloud-based backup services to an enterpri...
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Learning Tools
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- mobile productivity app (mobile productivity application) - A mobile productivity app is a software program that allows smartphone, tablet and wearable devic...
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Networking
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- fog computing (fog networking) - Fog computing, also known as fog networking, is a decentralized computing infrastructure in which...
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- mobile hotspot - A mobile hotspot is wireless Internet connectivity that is enabled by a dedicated hardware device...
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Security
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- Trojan horse - A Trojan horse is a program that appears harmless but is, in fact, malicious. Attackers have long...
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Storage and Data Management
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- edge analytics - Edge analytics applies algorithms to data at the point of collection in order to trigger actions ...
- Microsoft Azure Data Lake - Microsoft Azure Data Lake is a highly scalable data storage and analytics service hosted in Azure...
- Microsoft Operations Management Suite - The Microsoft Operations Management Suite is a software as a service offering that allows an admi...
fog computing (fog networking)
Fog computing, also known as fog networking, is a decentralized computing infrastructure in which computing resources and application services are distributed in the most logical, efficient place at any point along the continuum from the data source to the cloud. The choice of the word "fog" is ... More
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"The idea behind fog computing is that there's no reason to pump what will become trillions of updates from billions of devices to remote servers." - Patrick Hubbard
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Test Yourself
What is a container?
a. an isolated guest in operating system-level virtualization
b. an isolated computing environment used by software developers
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design thinking
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Know-IT-All
Apple's new iPhone SE might be perfect for the enterprise
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Nutanix Prism
Users manage Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure technology through Prism -- software that provides management of clusters, virtual machines and networking through a single interface.
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IT SECURITY
2015 security predictions from McAfee Labs
As it looks ahead to next year security player McAfee has outlined some of the things it believes will happen in the market.
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Storage
Five Strategies for Using Flash in Your Next Storage Project
Learn how to deploy flash technology to deliver the right data, at the right time, at the right cost to fit your needs.
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The benefits of a converged infrastructure
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