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When IBM-PC pioneer Mark Dean said that we’re entering the Post-PC era, a lot of people were surprised. After all, here’s a guy who is IBM’s CTO for the Middle East and Africa, one of the actual developers of the original IBM-PC, saying that its glory days are over. Who’d a thunk it?…
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Gartner’s Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle is an annual data collection that provides an assessment of the enthusiasm, unrealistic qualities and possible realities of hundreds of different technologies for small and large businesses alike. This year’s report was recently released and demonstrated the tendencies, side effects and bonuses of 1,900 services…
As cloud computing continues to take the IT industry by storm, it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between a good cloud partner and a “me, too” provider. Reminiscent of the dot com days, companies are popping up everywhere claiming to be cloud computing experts. In this environment, it is more important than ever to do your homework and sort out good, reliable companies from those that just want to cash in on the impending financial windfall.
When trusting valuable corporate information to a cloud provider, it is vital to know exactly who is handling your information. Look to the cloud provider’s past performance with multiple customers—ones that have been with them for five or more years. Any cloud provider that you are considering should have a track record of success for all its customers…
Grazed from InfoTech Spotlight. Author: Erin Harrison.
A major part of today’s cloud computing strategy for enterprises centers on storage. The benefits of cloud storage to enterprises are far-reaching: a hybrid solution can simplify the management of primary storage, archival, data protection and disaster recovery. It’s a tall order.
In addition to the layers of storage and complexity, IT managers must juggle ongoing storage management using multiple dashboards, energy costs, data center real estate, information management, upgrades and migrations, according to a recent executive summary by technology analysts Taneja Group…
Searchlight Solutions Ltd. announced that its subsidiary Linux Labs International Inc. has upgraded its proprietary NimbusOS for use as the Operating System for its High Performance Cloud Computing (“HPC2”) service.
Linux Labs International is a hybrid engineering firm that specializes in technologies that optimize high performance supercomputing. Linux Labs designs and builds high-performance supercomputers utilizing their proprietary NimbusOS…
Grazed from Fortune. Author: JP Mangalindan.
Earlier this week, portions of Amazon’s cloud computing service crashed, impairing Foursquare, Netflix and Instagram as well as millions of users. While service was quickly restored, it marked the second major incident of its kind in the last six months — and that is raising concerns with some.
Putting parts or all of your company in the cloud — the oft-used term to describe large, remotely hosted data sets and applications — is typically far more cost-effective than relying on traditional servers and internal IT departments. But, incidents like these can also bring a cloud-hosted company to its knees…
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced it will soon be launching a free, publicly accessible registry that documents the security controls provided by various cloud computing offerings.
The new initiative, called the CSA Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), is intended to encourage transparency of security practices within cloud providers. The registry will help users assess the security of cloud providers they currently use or are considering contracting with, CSA says. CSA STAR will be online in Q4 of 2011…
Grazed from International Business Times. Author: Carl Bagh.
The platform is called LHC@home which has been crafted to enable volunteers to "help physicists develop and exploit particle accelerators like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, by contributing spare processing capacity on their home computers. An extension of this platform, called LHC@home 2.0, enables volunteers to run simulations of particle collisions in the LHC’s giant detectors, helping physicists compare theory with experiment in the search for new fundamental particles."
The search for the Higgs boson particle is theoretically explained as the particle which gives mass to other particles. The study has resulted in the erection of one of the largest and complex "atom smasher" in the world called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)…
Savtira Corp., an e-commerce servicing firm currently based in Ybor City, announced this week that it plans to hire “at least” 265 new employees over the next 18 months.
The company seeks writers, designers, engineers and other professionals to help it expand its cloud computing offerings. The new positions will pay an average wage of $81,448, a statement from Savtira says…