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Dear Colleague Letter: Supplemental Funding for NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Recipients for Transitioning NSF EPSCoR Jurisdiction Office Functions to Sustainable Support

Published: 9 August 2024
Categories: NSF Pgm Announcements

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August 9, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

NSF EPSCoR affirms its commitment to a long-term partnership with EPSCoR jurisdictions in supporting successful and sustainable transitions for building research, education, and workforce development capacity within the jurisdiction. The transitioning of the Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-1 program to two new RII programs, E-RISE RII and E-CORE RII, represents an opportunity for EPSCoR jurisdictions to re-envision how activities undertaken by the NSF EPSCoR Jurisdiction or State Office can be transitioned and sustained, either within their current structure or within a new structure. With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), NSF EPSCoR will accept supplemental funding requests to facilitate transition of activities and personnel supported by NSF EPSCoR Jurisdiction or State Offices, as further described below. Supplemental funding requests may be submitted by existing RII Track-1 recipients

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Advancing to adaptive cloud

Published: 8 August 2024
Categories: MIT Tech Review

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For many years now, cloud solutions have helped organizations streamline their operations, increase their scalability, and reduce costs. Yet, enterprise cloud investment has been fragmented, often lacking a coherent organization-wide approach. In fact, it’s not uncommon for various teams across an organization to have spun up their own cloud projects, adopting a wide variety of cloud strategies and providers, from public and hybrid to multi-cloud and edge computing.

The problem with this approach is that it often leads to “a sprawling set of systems and disparate teams working on these cloud systems, making it difficult to keep up with the pace of innovation,” says Bernardo Caldas, corporate vice president of Azure Edge product management at Microsoft. In addition to being an IT headache, a fragmented cloud environment leads to technological and organizational repercussions.

A complex multi-cloud deployment can make it difficult for IT

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