How To Beat ‘Dark Souls 3’s’ First Boss

Dark Souls 3 does not waste any time. No sooner than you create a character, go through a few basic tutorials and just begin to get your feet in this new game that you’re thrown into combat against the first boss: Ludex Gundyr. He’s still part of the tutorial, naturally, and so he’s meant to teach you about how to apply what you’ve just learned when facing a much larger enemy than what you learned it on. But he’s terribly nasty for a tutorial, and you can’t even upgrade your character before him. Here’s how to make it out of the thing alive.

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Network Virtualization And International Travel: A Non-Tech Business Primer

As I write this I am sitting on a flight to Hong Kong. It is a long haul, and I feel like data being shuttled through a network. I often have conversations with business people who hear the marketing buzz of SDN, NFV, network virtualization and how these technologies are going to solve all of their problems. But all of the jargon goes over the typical business person’s head, and they just want to know, in English, what are these things and what do they do. The short answer is: they make your business be nimbler so it can react to market changes more efficiently. We’ve written about this extensively. But let me explain how all of these relate to international travel.

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What Is EMC’s Presence In The Storage Systems Market?

EMC has been the dominant player in the storage systems market in recent years. EMC’s integrated product offerings – with capabilities ranging from content management, data security, virtualization (via VMware) and extensive post-sale services – have helped it gain share in the market. EMC’s market share in the external storage systems market rose from 22.8% in 2009 to about 31.3% in 2014. Correspondingly, the revenue generated by sales of storage systems grew at a CAGR of 17% in the same period to $7.7 billion in 2013.
Subsequently, a slowdown in global expenditures on IT hardware through 2014 and 2015 led EMC’s storage product revenues to fall. Moreover, the presence of small vendors – such as flash storage startups – disrupted the industry by introducing cheaper white-box storage products. Over the last two years, customer preference has shifted to low-cost original design manufacturer storage boxes, which has cut into the addressable market for large vendors.  As a result, most large vendors lost share in the storage systems market through 2014 and 2015. This trend is likely to continue over the next couple of years.Have more questions about EMC? See the link below:
What’s EMC’s Fundamental Value Based On Expected 2016 Results?

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Apple Has Created A Tablet For Your Wrist

The more that I look at the Apple Watch, the more I realise that it’s not another runaway hit as the iPhone was. The wearable is following a similar pattern of adoption and understanding as the iPad. That promises a long and healthy life as a secondary product range, but not one that can create the sort of wealth that the iPhone fostered.

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How Microsoft Could Become A Mobile Player Without A Broadly-Adopted Smartphone Operating System

Microsoft BUILD is the company’s annual developer conference where they communicate their latest strategies and deliverables to developers and launch many new innovations. BUILD is extremely developer- focused and is intended to inform current Microsoft developers as well as recruit more developers to develop for Microsoft platforms. I attended BUILD the week before last held in San Francisco. Microsoft hasn’t been successful in the smartphone OS or small tablet market, although they have seen big growth in Windows convertibles. Currently, iOS has 1 billion users while Android has 2.3 billion and Microsoft 10 has 270 million users across all devices and an installed base of 1.5 billion total Windows users.

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