How to Manage the Complexity of Multi-Cloud Environments As enterprises have moved their workloads (applications and data) to the cloud, hybrid and distributed cloud environments have become the norm for most companies. Eighty-five percent of respondents to a new Harvard Business Review–Analytic Services survey say their organizations use at leastContinue Reading
You’ll find an array of guesstimates online of the amount of time developers spend managing pre-production environments. However much it is, one thing is clear: It’s time spent performing routine tasks rather than being focused on innovation. Romanian startup Bunnyshell is taking on that problem with a vendor-agnostic, automated Environment-as-a-ServiceContinue Reading
Every graduate student or postdoc deserves to be trained in a supportive environment by a respectful adviser. Yet you don’t have to search far to hear stories from graduate students and postdocs who suffer under abusive ones. Most of those stories do not rise to the level of national outcry,Continue Reading
Your cells need to get around. For example, immune cells must roam around your body to locate sites of infection, and neurons must migrate to specific positions in the brain during development. But cells do not have eyes to see where they are going. Instead, like a dog sniffing outContinue Reading
Synthetic and hybrid training environments can help to improve realism in military training while keeping costs and safety risks low. Image credit: 4GD. Training is critical for any armed force. Effective and rigorous training procedures will better prepare a force for war if and when it comes. However, modern warfareContinue Reading
Comment The ministry’s proposed plan to impose a 20-cent deposit on almost every beverage container sold doesn’t add up, and with a 10c bottle deposit difference between Australia and NZ, we’ll be making smuggling great again too There were a lot of truly classic episodes of Seinfeld, but among the very best,Continue Reading
Michigan State researchers have helped peer inside a nova — a type of astrophysical nuclear explosion — without leaving Earth. These stellar events help forge the universe’s chemical elements, and Spartans helped explore their nature with an intense isotope beam and a custom experimental device with record-setting sensitivity at theContinue Reading
In a recent study under review at the Scientific Reports journal and posted to the Research Square* preprint server, researchers evaluated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection risk for indoor scenarios. Study: Transmissibility of coronavirus and its variants from infected subjects in indoor environments. Image Credit: Elizaveta Galitckaia /Continue Reading
The dramatic shift to cloud services over the past few years has given organizations unprecedented flexibility and scalability, enabling them to forge ahead with digital transformation efforts. For many, it has also led to intermingled, complex strategies that threaten to take away some of the luster of the cloud. EnterprisesContinue Reading
The idea that geography is destiny has a long and sordid history. It originated as a claim among Greek philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle, that people from northern, colder — and whiter — regions of the world were superior to people from warmer, southern regions, with more varied, darker skinContinue Reading
