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A new feature in Google Maps will help you find parking – or rather, it will mentally prepare you for how difficult it will be to find a parking space at your destination. Google says it’s now using “historical parking … Continue reading →

PowerAI is IBM’s machine learning framework for companies that use servers based on its Power processors and NVIDIA’s NVLink high-speed interconnects that allow for data to pass extremely quickly between the processor and the GPU that does most of the … Continue reading →

SRM SRM (short for Storage Resource Management) refers to the management of storage resources along with optimizing how the available drive space is utilized within a network. SRM focuses on avoiding file duplication, determining space utilization across network servers, and … Continue reading →

Routing Loop A Routing Loop is formed when an error occurs in a routing algorithm or there has been a router/line failure and the remaining routers in the network have not received notification of the problem yet. This causes packets … Continue reading →

cloud engineer A cloud engineer is an IT professional responsible for any technological duties associated with cloud computing, including design, planning, management, maintenance and support. The cloud engineer position can be broken into multiple roles, including cloud software engineer, cloud … Continue reading →

ensemble modeling Ensemble modeling is the process of running two or more related but different analytical models and then synthesizing the results into a single score or spread in order to improve the accuracy of predictive analytics and data mining … Continue reading →

Disaster Recovery as a Service Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is the replication and hosting of physical or virtual servers by a third-party to provide failover in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe. Typically, DRaaS requirements and … Continue reading →

data warehouse A data warehouse is a federated repository for all the data that an enterprise’s various business systems collect. The repository may be physical or logical. Data warehousing emphasizes the capture of data from diverse sources for useful analysis … Continue reading →

Fish Does the early bird catch the worm? or is it Fish? It all depends if you live by the sea (so it is a Fish caught by the seagull) or in the inland (so it is a worm caught … Continue reading →

Apple announced this morning that its payments service Apple Pay will now support the ability to make donations to non-profits, starting today in the U.S. This includes both Apple Pay on the web, where it can be integrated into websites’ … Continue reading →

Samsung is giving customers a new incentive to use Samsung Pay, its mobile payments product. The company released Samsung Rewards today, which is a program that provides points whenever a user uses their Samsung Pay for a transaction. The points … Continue reading →

Electric cars and hybrid vehicles can be incredibly quiet – so quiet that a populace used to cars that make noise can be hurt when sharing space with them. New NHTSA standards for automakers aim to help fix that with … Continue reading →

One Power BI feature that almost passed me by (because it was released in August while I was on holiday) was the ability to create streaming datasets in the Power BI web app and push data to them via the … Continue reading →