Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many different things, especially for the 79 percent of organizations that plan to adopt serverless architecture but have not planned to use FaaS in the next 18 months. Oh boy. Original source: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless

Disrupters gonna disrupt, loans edition: This type of loan is typically reserved for retailers who bring in more than $1 million in revenue, and requires a lot of paperwork. Original source: Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments

Disrupters gonna disrupt, loans edition: This type of loan is typically reserved for retailers who bring in more than $1 million in revenue, and requires a lot of paperwork. Original source: Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments

“You’re probably going to see maybe a directive from us that basically says every acquisition is going to have to have something that looks like Kessel Run from the primes. So you want to have [authority to operate] within three or four weeks, not six years.” Original source: Air Force wants to make ‘Kessel Run’ standard in tech acquisition

“You’re probably going to see maybe a directive from us that basically says every acquisition is going to have to have something that looks like Kessel Run from the primes. So you want to have [authority to operate] within three or four weeks, not six years.” Original source: Air Force wants to make ‘Kessel Run’ standard in tech acquisition

Tirone expanded further by saying that whitepapers are often used by marketers to highlight the brand’s value proposition — which could be a product, service, or solution — in a polished deliverable with strong visuals and writing. “The structure of a whitepaper can vary, but the common components remain pretty consistent; [it starts with identifying] a problem, [followed by a] methodology, guidance, [and then the proposed] resolution,” he explained. There’s several opinions of which work better for getting customers.

Tirone expanded further by saying that whitepapers are often used by marketers to highlight the brand’s value proposition — which could be a product, service, or solution — in a polished deliverable with strong visuals and writing. “The structure of a whitepaper can vary, but the common components remain pretty consistent; [it starts with identifying] a problem, [followed by a] methodology, guidance, [and then the proposed] resolution,” he explained. There’s several opinions of which work better for getting customers.

From the referenced report: Tax Day, April 17, 2018, the IRS experienced a storage outage due to a firmware bug on one of the IRS’s high-availability storage arrays. Because of the outage, 59 tax processing systems, including the Modernized e-File (MeF) system, were unavailable for approximately 11 hours between 2:57 a.m. and 1:40 p.m. Storage firmware bug that hasn’t been patched. Original source: Here’s what happened when the IRS’s electronic filing system crashed on Tax Day

From the referenced report: Tax Day, April 17, 2018, the IRS experienced a storage outage due to a firmware bug on one of the IRS’s high-availability storage arrays. Because of the outage, 59 tax processing systems, including the Modernized e-File (MeF) system, were unavailable for approximately 11 hours between 2:57 a.m. and 1:40 p.m. Storage firmware bug that hasn’t been patched. Original source: Here’s what happened when the IRS’s electronic filing system crashed on Tax Day

“Thomas said he plans to migrate hundreds of existing applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which will also serve as the standard platform-of-excellence for all new applications. New Relic will ensure reliability, availability, and performance of those workloads as well as enable West’s ops team to monitor Pivotal Cloud Foundry itself.” Original source: PCF and New Relic at West