Public clouds are substantial deployments of hardware and software spread between numerous sites and utilised by a significant user-base.
But going back to the deployment of military hardware and troops – this time to control Europe's external borders – is the kind of nightmare Merkel may be warning about.
"That urgency facilitated the delivery and deployment of new military hardware, including assets more relevant to counter-insurgency operations," he said.
To have all of these in the mix, even inside one server, indicates a heavy deployment of software and hardware engineers creating systems suited to differing needs.
Salesforce already has decoupled rapid development and deployment from the exigencies of hardware and on-premise software management.
Trouble-free deployment and ongoing operation of hardware throughout its technical lifetime requires the prior existence of a local capable agent and or institution (orgware) and the prior mastery of RET know-how (software).
One of the big advantages of Nauto as a stepping stone to autonomy, however, is the cost of deployment — its hardware is relatively inexpensive and can be used immediately with vehicles on the road today, following a simple installation process.
However, accurate indoor positioning systems still present high costs in terms of hardware price, deployment expenditures, computational cost, and complexity, especially for very accurate solutions, such as UWB.
As good-humored and imperturbable as you so notoriously are, I like to think that the widespread disruption to your roads and transport networks, the large-scale deployment of military personnel and hardware on your streets, and the wholesale trampling of your First Amendment rights might also prompt a little grumbling.
