Speedo is making swimwear out of textile factory scraps. Ford is turning old floor mats into engine components. And battery manufacturers are turning old batteries into — well, new batteries. A successor to the practice of old school “reduce, reuse, recycle” mantras, these examples of unconventional material re-purposing help illustrate the much-hyped circular economy — […]
Credit: Peter Sayer/IDG SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) will soon be locally available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with plans to launch across Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) in August. Through the AWS Asia Pacific region in Sydney, the roll-out will allow trans-Tasman customers and partners the opportunity to leverage an expanded suite of SAP solutions.
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Ansible offers great flexibility. Because of this, the community has figured out many useful ways to leverage Ansible modules and playbook structures to automate frequent operations on multiple layers, including using it with OpenStack. In this blog we’ll cover the many use-cases for Ansible, the most popular automation software, with OpenStack, the most popular cloud
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Why You Should Set Up a Google Shopping Campaign Let’s get right to the point: If you are already advertising your e-commerce company through AdWords, a Google Shopping campaign should be a no-brainer. Not only do Shopping campaigns give your products more visibility but they also have a higher conversion rate than text ads. But
The B2B customer experience isn’t a shifting landscape anymore. It’s a whole other planet. Your customers are relying on honest peer reviews, and they’re not fooled by 100% 5-star evaluations. They insist on personalized communications – even when those communications are automated. They educate themselves – thoroughly – online before even thinking about making a
Amazon Web Services is an amazing constellation of products, but it’s far from the only game in the cloud world. Microsoft realized long ago that the future of enterprise computing lies in the cloud and it has been investing heavily in owning a piece of this market. The number of products sitting under the Azure
Over the last year, there has been a tidal wave of websites that have decided to close their news comment sections because the companies are no longer willing to invest time and effort into cultivating healthy on-site discussion. While that’s any site’s prerogative, these announcements have all too often been accompanied by amusing, disingenuous claims
When you start building infrastructure on Elasticsearch (ES), the first architecture usually assumes you can run a single ES cluster. This is the easiest way to get started: Just spawn a cluster and go. A typical search-based application looks like this: Any modern architecture will be designed for scalability and resiliency, so each stage should
Crowdsourcing can be a great concept when it comes to ecommerce. It’s also great when readers suggest an ecommerce product or service to write about because they love it so much. When the emails came in about BETSI, a bulk listing and editing tool for Etsy sellers, we just had to look into it. “I
In 2008, four students at the MIT Sloan School of Management developed a system for captioning online video that was far more efficient than traditional methods, which involve pausing a video frequently to write text and mark time codes. The system used automated speech-recognition software to produce “rough-draft” transcripts, displayed on a simple interface, that
