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Happy St.Patrick’s Day! In honor of the day, here’s a bunch of Irish guys singing about something Turkish. Erin go brah or whatever! |
With increased adoption of futuristic technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), the Cloud market in India is poised to grow three-fold to $7.1 billion by 2022, according to a Nasscom report on Tuesday. |
In 2018, Cloud spending stood at approximately 6 per cent of the total IT spending, according to the report prepared in collaboration with Google Cloud and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP. |
"India's Cloud computing market is poised for growth and the technology is increasingly being embraced across businesses as well as consumers," Debjani Ghosh, President, Nasscom, said in a statement. |
Globally, the Cloud spending on IT is growing at 16.5 per cent and is expected to touch $345 billion by 2022, said the report titled "Cloud -- Next Wave of Growth in India". |
The report highlights that Cloud spending is propelled by factors such as increased awareness of Cloud, consumerisation of IT, proliferation of start-up ecosystem, diverse landscape of supplier ecosystem, rising investments in infrastructure, talent, strategic partnerships and the impetus from key digital-led governmen... |
Futuristic technologies such as AI and ML are aiding in the seamless adoption of software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offerings, giving a boost to the Cloud market. |
The report also draws attention to a few challenges to the growth of Cloud market in India such as data security and lack of Internet infrastructure specially in tier-2 and rural markets of the country. |
With boys basketball sectional championships and a string of new Wayne County businesses, this was a busy weekend for local news. |
With boys basketball sectional championships and a string of new Wayne County businesses, this was a busy couple of days for local news. |
Did you miss out on all of it this weekend? No worries, we have you covered. |
New place to wine and dine: Downtown Richmond's Depot District will get a new wine bar when The Cordial Cork opens this week. It will feature more than 100 wines and specialty dining options and desserts. This comes just after Centerville, Indiana, saw a new grill and tap room open on Friday. |
Make that five in a row for Seton Catholic: The Cardinals defeated Blue River 59-50 to advance to this Saturday's regional. Here is who the team will face, along with nearly 50 photos from this weekend's sectional championship. |
Speaking of sectionals... The student section was loud as Union County dominated Northeastern to win the IHSAA Class 2A Sectional 41 tournament. Likewise, here is where the team will end up this upcoming weekend. |
What's next for downtown Richmond's Elder Beerman?: Though questions have been centered on the stability of Elder Beerman's parent company, local leaders remain confident about its downtown Richmond anchor store. Here's what they say. |
BONUS: Two photo galleries of the new places to dine in Wayne County, plus pictures captured at sectional championships. |
ANN ARBOR, MI - Of the 16,000 high school seniors in the United States who have been selected as National Merit Scholarship 2019 semifinalists, 109 of them come from Washtenaw County. |
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the semifinalists Wednesday, Sept. 12. |
In spring 2019, 7,500 winners of scholarships totaling more than $31 million will be named. |
More than 1.6 million students from 22,000 high schools entered by taking the 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. |
Scholarship winners are selected based on "skills, accomplishments and potential for success in rigorous college studies," according to scholarship administrators. |
Besides taking a test, applicants had to have a strong academic record, a recommendation from a school official, an essay and high SAT scores. |
Baidu’s iQIYI online video platform has sealed a multi-year output agreement with 20th Century Fox giving it new release digital TVOD and exclusive first-run SVOD rights in China to the studio’s theatrical releases. The arrangement will make iQIYI the first Middle Kingdom platform where subscribers can see Fox movies v... |
The companies previously enhanced their existing library licensing deal by significantly increasing the films available on iQIYI’s online streaming service. |
IQIYI has an extensive catalog of films available online and reached 10M subscribers as of December 1, 2015. According to an October report published by App Annie, iQIYI’s mobile app was the 7th top iOS app by revenue globally. |
The latest version of QuickTransit will support Solaris/SPARC applications on Intel hardware, the company says at C3. |
NEW YORK—Transitive CEO Bob Wiederhold announced on June 27 a new version of the companys virtualization software, QuickTransit, for Solaris/SPARC applications. The new software will allow Intel-based computers running Linux to run Solaris/SPARC applications in the same memory space as Linux applications. |
This makes QuickTransit different from products such as VMware, which can run several different, but separate, operating systems at the same time. |
Transitive, based in Los Gatos, Calif., is best known for its Rosetta software, which allows Apple Macintosh applications written for PowerPC platforms to run on the new Intel chip-based versions of the Macintosh. |
Transitive is already producing a version of QuickTransit that will allow Silicon Graphics applications to run on Intel/Linux platforms. The current versions of QuickTransit are designed for use with Intel Itanium and Xeon processors. |
/zimages/2/28571.gifRead more here about Transitives virtualization offerings. |
While Wiederhold said it was too early to make an announcement, he did say the company will begin testing its software on AMDs Opteron platform in the near future. |
Wiederhold also said the company was broadening its distribution model. In the past, Transitive has only sold its software to computer makers, but he said the software would now be available to users, VARs, ISVs and others. |
Wiederhold made his announcements at a press conference at the C3 Expo trade show being held here the week of June 26. During an earlier discussion, Wiederhold and Intels General Manager of Server Platform Management, Lisa Graff, had described how software virtualization worked. Graff said Intel would be changing its p... |
/zimages/2/28571.gifClick here to read about Intels joint program with VMware, "Virtualization ASAP." |
Wiederhold said QuickTransit runs as an application on top of an operating system. Once its loaded, he said, native applications can be loaded and run as if they were running in their native environment. |
"This solves many of the problems of server migration," Wiederman said. In the past, he said, "switching costs were so high that there was little migration." |
He also said that in many cases, the difficulty of migrating platforms wasnt due so much to technical problems as it was to management issues, or simply because development staffs were overloaded, had other priorities or simply didnt exist. |
"ISV support wasnt happening," he said. "Now we can decouple hardware and software migration." |
Wiederhold said virtualization usually works well enough that its never necessary to rewrite an application so that it runs natively in the new environment. He also said the new version of QuickTransit is available immediately, and will sell to users for $750 per socket, which he said means each CPU socket installed on... |
GENEVA – A neurological condition linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus could be targeted globally with existing national programs for detecting polio, a paper co-authored by World Health Organization researchers said on Tuesday. |
Guillain-Barre syndrome is a rare neurological condition, most common in adults, that can cause temporary paralysis. Some victims may need intensive care for breathing difficulties, but most people recover fully, the WHO says. |
The WHO, which declared an international emergency over Zika on Feb. 1, says there is strong scientific consensus that Zika can cause the birth defect microcephaly in babies, a condition defined by unusually small heads that can result in developmental problems, and could cause Guillain-Barre. |
Active Zika outbreaks have been reported in at least 49 countries, most of them in the Americas, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). |
Surveillance systems in place in 177 out of 194 WHO member states currently check for acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) as part of the U.N. agency's global polio eradication program. The stools of children younger than 15 years are analyzed in laboratory to confirm polio or identify non-polio AFP cases, which include ... |
"With increasing evidence of linkages between Guillain-Barre syndrome and Zika virus infection, it is imperative to enhance Guillain-Barre syndrome surveillance," WHO researchers led by Nirmal Kandel said in a paper posted on the WHO website. |
"This can be done using existing surveillance systems like the one for acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) used by polio eradication programs. Further investigation of AFP cases classified as being due to Guillain-Barre syndrome can be a starting point to test for Zika virus." |
Polio surveillance systems in countries present a platform for global disease detection, monitoring and response, the researchers said, noting that reporting systems and laboratory facilities are in place. |
Last year, 99,582 cases of acute flaccid paralysis were detected worldwide in children, including 72 cases of wild poliovirus confirmed in a laboratory, the WHO paper said. |
In the Americas region - where the Zika virus is spreading - the annual rate of acute flaccid paralyis has been reported at between 0.8 and 1.1 per 100,000 children. |
The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light last year in Brazil, which has now confirmed more than 1,600 cases of microcephaly that it considers to be related to Zika infections in the mothers. |
Brazil will host the 2016 Summer Olympics starting Aug. 5. |
My Bloody Valentine wrapped its triumphant reunion tour last night (Oct. 2) in Santa Monica, Calif., its seven North American shows (all sell-outs) drawing nearly 26,000 people, generating well more than $1 million in gross and battering eardrums from New York to L.A. |
And that's not counting another 3,000 fans who packed into an upstate New York resort to watch MBV perform and curate the All Tomorrow's Parties festival the weekend of Sept. 19, an event so successful that tickets are already on sale for its 2009 edition. |
Following a 1992 tour, MBV basically dropped off the face of the earth. But some in the biz held out hope for a return to activity, particularly Frank Riley, who was the band's booking agent at Monterey Peninsula Artists. When he left to open High Road Touring in 2001, he kept MBV on his active roster for three years o... |
Tollett came in with an enormous offer for the band to play the 2008 festival, which would have made it financially feasible for Shields to re-form and properly equip MBV. But the band wasn't ready to take the stage by late April, so Shields opted instead to team with All Tomorrow's Parties co-founder Barry Hogan for a... |
Then came the hard part: Riley had to figure out the proper venues for a band that hadn't toured here since the first Bush administration. |
"The most important thing for MBV was making sure that whatever they did sounded great," Riley says. "That requires a certain amount of equipment and power and volume and staging. I had to find venues that could accommodate that. Next, I had to consider which markets could fully support something within those sound spe... |
Playing for a guarantee sources say was six figures not counting sizable merch sales, MBV laid waste to audiences with crushingly loud 90-minute sets, each of which ended with the wall-rattling feedback barrage "You Made Me Realise." "It sounded like a plane crashed at 300 miles per hour for 25 minutes," says Adam Flem... |
Shields admitted to the New York Times that he spent more than $360,000 preparing for the shows, which means MBV won't wind up with a lot of take-home pay this time around. But the stage is now set for more touring, and much bigger paydays, at some point down the road. Riley will only say, "With the success of what the... |
With the tour finished and the prospect of new MBV material looming (Shields told the Times he plans to complete an aborted third album and then start another one), Riley says the situation is "entirely unique. The band is still together enough and capable enough to go back and reconnect with their music and then maybe... |
What role does technology play in manufacturing? |
Business for avionics technicians is increasing with the Federal Aviation Administration's new requirements to upgrade flight instruments. |
Hops can be challenging to grow, harvest and process, but Wisconsin farmers are finding strong demand for the crop with craft brewers in the state. |
Mobile startup Hinge has raised $12 million in Series A funding as the popular dating app looks to spread into new markets. |
The investment is the largest cash influx to date for Hinge, which had previously brought in $8.6 million in seed funding and convertible notes. Shasta Ventures led the round, which includes additional participation from previous invesotrs including Lowercase, Great Oaks, Eniac and CAA ventures. |
Representatives from Hinge declined to comment on the valuation of the company after this fundraising round. |
Hinge's model is similar to various other dating apps. Users sign up for the service by connecting it to a Facebook profile, which then links them to people in their extended social network. The app has five times as many active users as it did in 2013, according to the company. |
The startup touts its app as a superior way to meet romantic prospects through your existing social circles. |
The funding will be used to bolster its development team and bring the app into more markets. Hinge is currently available in 28 cities, 24 of which were launched in 2014. The company recently brought in former Spotify employee Eric Bogs to heads up its engineering team. |
The online dating industry has seen an influx of investment recently. Tinder is reportedly in the process of raising a fresh reound of capital at a valuation that could touch $1 billion. Another popular app, Coffee Meets Bagel, raised $2.8 million in May. |
"We believe that new, large companies will emerge in the dating market. The dating category has seen waves of new companies. Match.com, eHarmony, OkCupid, Zoosk, Tinder have all gained significant mindshare in the U.S., and there are other large players abroad. There’s a reason for these successes — this is a really im... |
While Tinder's success has helped pave the way for other mobile dating apps, Hinge is positioning itself as something of the anti-Tinder. |
Mona Louise Thomas passed away on Sunday February 20, 2011 in Palm Desert, CA. Her bright smile, zest for living, and concern for others will truly be missed. |
Mona was born June 11, 1929 in Glendale, CA to Florence and Homer Zechiel, joining her older brother William. She graduated from Hoover High School in 1947 and earned a degree from Glendale College. She met Bill Thomas in a Sunday School class at First Methodist Church and they were married August 13, 1949. |
Bill and Mona settled into their first home in Burbank, where their children Steve and Nancy were born. They then moved back to Glendale into a home built by her father, where they would live until 1997. This is where their daughter Sue was born, where her kindergarten teaching career in Glendale Unified School Distric... |
After a combined 140 years in Glendale, Mona and Bill retired to Palm Desert. Mona was faithful in keeping up longtime friendships while making many new friends. She taught kindergarten Sunday School at Southwest Community Church and involved herself in many community ministries. |
Mona always found time for her family. She adored her seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren (and another baby girl due in June) and relished every minute spent with them. She looked forward to the many times the entire family was able to gather together at reunions, most recently in Scottsdale last summer, wh... |
She remained amazingly active until her recent illness, giving of herself to family, friends, and service. |
Jenny (Tim) Loomer, Jordan Graham, Joseph Thomas, Brittany (Blake) Bowen, Lindsay (Matt) Todd, and Paul Williams; great-grandchildren, Mackenzie, Marin, Mason, Nate, Cora, and Aurora. |
A Celebration of Life will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, March 7 at Southwest Community Church, 77-701 Fred WaringDr, Indian Wells, followed by a luncheon. |
Some people may call me cynical when I write about our current crop of politician,s but the next crop will probably be far worse as the selection process to stand as a MP is well under way by all our political parties and I will deal with each in turn. |
I agree with Saints chairman Eamonn McManus and his comments on video referees. He is right, it is damaging the televised version of the game, as is ‘miked-up’ refs “MOOOOOOVE” non-stop for 80 minutes. |
Is town hall being run right? |
Under Coun Barrie Grunewald’s leadership, St Helens Council appears to be a bit of a mess. And given the amount of money he and other councillors receive for running the council, it appears to be money which is not deserved. |
In less than 100 days the people of Scotland will vote on their nation’s future in a referendum; either for independence or to stay as part of the United Kingdom. |
We wish to assure residents of St Helens that the new A10 circular bus service which will replace part of the old E10 route will be operating from July 14. |
According to President Obama, to doubt the concept of man made climate change is akin to believing that the Moon is made of cheese. |
Many people are involved in local campaigns to protect the NHS, oppose fracking, or tackle fuel poverty. |
Fracking is being presented as a boom for Lancashire, however, residents have not been consulted and are denied a say about the numerous drawbacks. |
I have read so much recently about the pitfalls of the National Health Service and I think its about time we all applauded this wonderful service we are lucky (very lucky) to have in this country. |
As a resident of St Helens, I want our newly elected councillors to make solving the housing shortage their top priority after Thursday, May 22. |
Would someone tell the Government that there is genuine unemployment in the North, but that we don’t have the public transport to get us to posts within the one hour 30 minutes travelling time that is set? |
Recently, in tabloid newspapers and local letters pages, there have been an increasing number of critical comments about the abuse of state benefits. |
I was delighted to see that the GMB union has come out in favour of fracking. |
Last night I and many others had a fantastic and utterly enjoyable night whilst attending the Festival Of Choirs at Parish Church which was held to raise monies for Willowbrook Hospice. |
PALERMO, Sicily — Pope Francis is recommending a Christian kind of populism after being attacked by Italian politicians for defending migrants. |
Francis told a crowd of 100,000 at an outdoor Mass on Saturday that "the only possible populism" is a Christian one that "listens to and serves the people without shouting, accusing, stirring up quarrels." |
The pope spoke in Palermo, the capital of Sicily. Many of the hundreds of thousands of migrants rescued at sea in recent years were taken to the Italian island's ports. |
Francis has staunchly championed the rights of migrants. |
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