BYLena L. West Relevancy Score: 66 Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 11:39 PM
More and more companies are diving into cloud computing, but there are security, quality and scalability concerns. That's where Sonoa Systems comes in.READ»
BYDavid Capece Relevancy Score: 59 Fri Nov 20, 2009 at 7:31 AM
When Canadian company i4i sued Microsoft this past August, watchdogs in the software community predicted that the move would encourage Microsoft to bring up their plans for a move to cloud computing much earlier than planned – and it looks like they were right. In addition to the announcements of a new and improved version of Internet Explorer and a major update of the Silverlight runtime platform at this week’s Microsoft at the…READ»
Grid computing has been around for a few years now and its advantages are many. Grid computing
can be defined in many ways but for these discussions let's simply call
it a way to execute compute jobs (e.g. perl scripts, database ...READ»
Data centers aren't exactly known for their sustainability--the power hogs are responsible for 1.5% of all power use in the United States. But as cloud computing, the IT golden child that uses mega-data centers to store information, ...READ»
Over the last year, Web 2.0 became cloudy. Yes, once upon a time, Sergey and Larry defined their vision for Google as an effort “to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible.” As a result of this ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 55 Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 6:31 AM
Both IBM and AT&T have unveiled new schemes that put their giant processing power and vast data storage facilities at the disposal of the little guy (or business) with a Net connection.
IBM's entry into the cloud-computing ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 55 Tue Aug 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Remember SETI@home? Launched in 1999, the alien-tracking effort was one of the first (and most popular) distributed computing efforts. It's still going, but a number of new distributed computing projects have popped up. The latest ...READ»
Outlook for Bangalore: Cloudy. Experts on cloud computing -- that fancy term for using supercomputers and amped-up servers for remote services -- will gather in India. Ahead of the meeting, we called Ramnath K. Chellappa, the ...READ»
BYSean Ludwig Relevancy Score: 48 Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Four years ago, a nasty virus infected my hard drive. Windows essentially just froze and never thawed. After a few days of trying to fix it with no success, I realized I would have to reformat my computer. I had no backups, and I ...READ»
BY Angus Loten Relevancy Score: 45 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:18 AM
On-demand software allows small and medium businesses to leverage robust computer applications at a fraction of the cost of maintaining in-house systems.READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 43 Thu Jun 24, 2004 at 5:35 PM
Alan Ganek is VP of Autonomic Computing for IBM. What follows is a partial transcript of his Supernova talk:
We tend to think about autonomic computing in terms of enterprise, but this concept has traction in small and medium-sized ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 42 Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Amazon, everyone's favorite online bookstore, also offers some pretty neat pay-per-use cloud computing systems. The company's just tweaked them, adding in all sorts of hooks for business networks to make it an even more useful ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 38 Mon Aug 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM
More information is trickling out about Apple's new data center in North Carolina--it seems it's going to be big. Amongst the biggest in the World, in fact. Are the folks at Cupertino shooting Apple into the cloud computing ...READ»
Lots of good reporting lately on the $13.9B purchase of EDS by HP.
Many are saying its the clearest sign yet that cloud computing has
fully arrived. Others say the purchase is more about buying market
share and becoming the ...READ»
BYCharles Fishman Relevancy Score: 35 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:35 AM
IBM's revolutionary approach to computing just might offer a new direction in strategy -- one that bridges the gap between brilliant insight and flawless execution.READ»
BYGreg Spotts Relevancy Score: 34 Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 7:22 PM
A few weeks ago I was doing a research project for a nonprofit organization with thirty employees. I struck up a conversation with the full-time IT person while she set me up with an Outlook account, a tedious process that took ...READ»
What do you see as the top five IT trends for 2008?
I'm trying to compile a list of technology trends that will sustain the IT world for the next 1-3 years.
Here is my top 5 list:
1) Distributed or "Grid" ...READ»
BYVijay Nair Relevancy Score: 30 Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 11:03 AM
I became quite interested in reading alot on the current developments on Cloud computing, virtualisation and Data back technologies. Before I get into the main findings, after reading online articles on these topics Ive began to ...READ»
To hear experts tell it, cloud computing is “the new dot-com,” the “biggest shift computing shift in two decades” or even technology era’s “Cambrian explosion.” But it's also a way to address the enormous need for energy ...READ»
BYSteve Walter Relevancy Score: 30 Thu Nov 19, 2009 at 1:36 AM
Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing its cloud based
computing system Azure on January 1, next year. The company plans to
take advantage of the growing interest in internet-based software and
services, according to ...READ»
