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Dr. Fletcher said he believes the answer lies in encouraging people to move buildings and other infrastructure away from the shoreline, a strategy coastal scientists call retreat.
As part of its plan for protection against increasing flooding, Durban is redrawing city districts and keeping city infrastructure away from areas that are at risk of flooding.
Those companies running on BlackBerry servers (BES) and with thousands of users cannot simply throw the entire infrastructure away and buy a new one; and they don't want to.
French officials from the police organization Gendarmerie Nationale reported recently that they've saved millions of dollars by migrating their desktop infrastructure away from Windows to Ubuntu.
What's more, once in place, it is risky and difficult for a customer to move their infrastructure away, so there is a powerful lock-in for the providers.
So with Flex, Bitfusion wants to abstract the tedious work of managing infrastructure away so that the data scientists that companies do eventually manage to hire can focus on their applications.
The overall idea here is to abstract all of the actual infrastructure away so developers can deploy their code for what are usually event-driven compute services like Lambda.
Especially, during the planning of mountain villages and towns, infrastructure development, and major engineering decision making, the government and its operating units must complete disaster risk assessment planning before construction, and keep all buildings, roads, and other infrastructure away from potentially dangerous glacial lakes in order to avoid unnecessary damage.
"We do a lot of GPU compute, but the big focus right now and really where the investors are buying into with this fundraise, is the idea that we are in a really unique position to build out a software layer and abstract a lot of that infrastructure away [for our customers]," Erb told TechCrunch.
