From ultrabooks to the cloud, NVIDIA takes Computex by storm
The computer market has gone through significant changes over the past decade and GPU market leader NVIDIA has been pursuing new opportunities in mobile processors for the smartphone and tablet markets, addressing the challenges of cloud computing while also providing innovative solutions in the high-performance computing (HPC) space. However, if you ask NVIDIA how it views itself, the company will tell you that computer graphics remain at the center of everything it does, with the focus now being on making graphics performance more efficient.
Qualcomm Atheros Wake-on-Wireless Cloud Solution Powers Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabooks
Qualcomm Atheros Inc., the networking and connectivity subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated QCOM +0.56% , today introduced its Wake-on-Wireless(TM) (WoW) Cloud solution for computing platforms, debuting in the new Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabook at COMPUTEX TAIPEI in Taiwan. WoW Cloud-enabled Acer Ultrabooks are equipped to wake up remotely, connect to the AcerCloud while the system is in idle or sleep mode, transfer content remotely, and go back to sleep, to deliver instant-on and always-connected capability. Qualcomm Atheros’ WoW Cloud-enabled AR9462 chip is the market’s first solution capable of both PCIe offload and remote cloud connectivity on a WLAN product.
These features will enable the Acer S5 Ultrabook and future WoW Cloud-enabled devices to keep content and applications constantly up to date and extend battery life. A new feature supported in Qualcomm Atheros’ dual-band (2.4/5 GHz), 2-stream 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0 single-chip combo solution, WoW Cloud offers remote wake-up capability for cloud-connected Ultrabooks. This new capability enables Qualcomm Atheros to help usher in a new era of cloud-connected computing platforms…
U.S. agency turns to cloud computing to increase availability of applications
The National Resource Conservation Service was faced with some staggering figures: more than 100 scientific modeling tools deployed to each and every one of its 12,500 planners, who were spread out in more than 2,000 offices.
Each NRCS employee needs access to those applications as they travel into the field to help farmers and ranchers determine how best to handle the critical issues that affect their businesses and livelihoods.
But the NRCS, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, realized it had an increasingly costly and ineffective system on its hands…
Advantest to Launch CloudTesting Service in Fall 2012 Cutting-Edge Test Technology on Demand
Advantest Corporation ATE +4.90% today announced that it will launch a new test solution, dubbed CloudTesting(TM) Service (CTS), which utilizes cloud computing technology to offer cutting-edge test technology for semiconductor device R&D and design applications. CTS will be a membership service. Scheduled for roll-out in fall 2012, it will be unveiled at Advantest’s corporate exhibition, ADVANTEST EXPO 2012, to be held on June 6th – 7th in Tokyo.
Over half a century of dynamic growth in the semiconductor industry, Advantest has played a key role in supporting the industry’s rapid technological progress with cutting-edge test solutions. The speed of technological advance shows no signs of slackening, while device manufacturers continue to hone the efficiency of their R&D operations. Advantest’s new CTS is a revolutionary new concept in test, targeted precisely to these customer needs…
Cloud Computing: Asus Announces 802.11ac Router
Tech giant Asus has already made a lot of announcements at Computex 2012 here, most of them centered on its Open Cloud Computing initiative that it claims makes "one seamless platform" of all the devices in your life.
But despite the tablets, laptops, all-in-ones, and various combinations thereof, Asus hasn’t left out the one most important piece: how you connect to the cloud in the first place. It’s providing that as well with its new RT-AC66U router…
Supermicro® Exhibits its Latest X9 Server and Storage Innovations at Computex, Taiwan
Super Micro Computer, Inc. SMCI +1.43% , a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, displays its full range of computing solutions optimized for large scale IT deployments at Computex, Taiwan June 5-9. Exhibits will include a vast selection of X9 Server Solutions, Serverboards, SuperBlade®, SuperWorkstations and SuperStorage systems with the latest Intel® Xeon® E5-2600/4600/2400 and E3-1200 v2 series processors optimized for a wide range of applications across Data Center, Cloud Computing, HPC and Embedded environments. Rounding out their exhibit, Supermicro will demo complete integrated solutions in a SuperRack® with their 10GbE top-of-rack network switch and their Server Management Software optimizing the power and performance of the interconnected systems…
Cloud On-Boarding – The True Story
Cloud On-Boarding – The True Story
Is All Virtualization Destined for the Cloud?
Is All Virtualization Destined for the Cloud?
Healthcare to Benefit Most from Cloud Computing
Grazed from Cloud Times. Author: Xath Cruz.
John Sculley, former Apple CEO, believes that cloud computing is powerful enough to completely revolutionize healthcare systems worldwide. Sculley told The Guardian that he was quite confident that cloud computing would ring in the changes when it comes to the way we approach healthcare in the next couple of decades and that large data analytics would be central to the change.
A keynote speaker at the Cloud Computing Forum and Managing Partner of InflexionPoint, Sculley went on to explain why cloud especially was a central point of interest.
With the overall movement to cloud, the curve is accelerating upwards at such an advanced level that basically means that the market is seeing new technologies that allow people to do things no one even thought were possible two or three years ago…
How to keep cloud projects agile, simple
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: David Taber.
Now it’s time to work on an issue that underlies all of those problematic behaviors: saying "Yes" too often.
Saying "No" will keep a project on track and your credibility intact. (Image courtesy of Zazzle.com.
Of course this is heresy. User-centered design is at the core of good UI. It would be political suicide for IT to say "No" to powerful users. IT engineering exists to serve the business, not order it around.
All those statements are true. But so is this: Saying "Yes" when the answer really needs to be "No" is an invitation to a project failure. Improper expectations don’t just hurt budgets and schedules. They damage credibility-and, in the end, they force you to expend resources when you shouldn’t have to…