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mmoorebz writes:
Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a nonprofit organization, announced that it is adopting the IBM Cloud to improve access and analysis of canine data. Some people rely on their service dogs to help them with everyday life, and as a way to continue its mission to serving the blind, Guiding Eyes migrated more than half a million health records and more than 65,000 temperament records on thousands of dogs to the IBM Cloud. President and CEO of Guiding Eyes, Thomas Panek, said "People don't typically think about an organization like ours as a Big Data company but we cannot succeed or grow without it."
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mmoorebz writes:
After three years of development and over 150 contributors to code, Apache PDFBox 2.0 is released.
With this release comes enhancements and improvements. The Apache PDFBox library is an open-source Java tool for working with PDF documents. The project allows creation and manipulation of PDF documents, and the ability to extract content from them.
81994039
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mmoorebz writes:
Netflix is known as a place to binge watch television, but behind the scenes, there’s much going on before everyone’s favorite shows can be streamed.
The first step to deploying an application or service is building. Netflix created Nebula, a set of plug-ins for the Gradle build system, that “help with the heavy-lifting around building applications,” said the engineers.
Netflix is continuing to look at the developer experience and determine how it can improve. Containers could be one solution to many of the company's challenges, like increasing bake time or improving the deploy experience.
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mmoorebz writes:
Talligent released its 2016 State of OpenStack Report yesterday, and it identified concerns IT professionals have with OpenStack, its use cases, and some barriers professionals are facing. John Meadows, vice president of business development at Talligent, said that businesses should have confidence in the path of OpenStack.
“Companies considering adopting OpenStack should understand that there are still challenges with regards to complexity and deployment,” said Meadows.
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mmoorebz writes:
Microsoft is recognizing the increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks on enterprises, which is why it is taking a new approach to protect its customers. Today it announced its new post-breach enterprise security service called Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, which will respond to these advanced attacks on companies’ networks.
Attackers these days are using social engineering and zero-day vulnerabilities to break into corporate networks. According to Microsoft, thousands of attacks were reported in 2015 alone. The company found that it currently takes an enterprise more than 200 days to detect a security breach, and 80 days to contain it. When there is such a breach, the attackers can steal company data, find private information, and damage the brand and customer trust in the company.
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mmoorebz writes:
The Linux Foundation is announcing new areas of focus for its Open Mainframe Project. The Open Mainframe Project is a collaborative effort launched six months ago as a focal point for the deployment and use of the Linux OS on the mainframe.
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nicholasjay writes:
In November Verizon Wireless is going to start charging its customers with the grandfathered 'unlimited data' plans an extra $20 for the data. This is obviously an attempt to get people off of the old unlimited data plans. I'm hoping they won't go through with this plan, but right now I'm weighing all my options.
