Computing
19618 Stories
Cloud has huge potential in India's SMBs
News India's large number of small and midsize businesses and platform's low cost, high operational efficiency and scalability will drive cloud use there, say Nasscom members.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Software, Computing, India, CRM, Small And Medium Business, ERP, Cloud computing
APAC HPC users eye solid-state drives
News update Some supercomputing users in the region are trialing flash memory for added boost, says a vendor, but an analyst notes SSDs won't be common "anytime soon".
Tags: Supercomputing, Memory, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing, e-mail, I/O, hard drive, high-performance, flash memory
IBM scientist predicts software's future
News Bigger, more ubiquitous and transparent, but software developers will increasingly have to worry about security and privacy issues, says Grady Booch.
Tags: Component-based development, Software engineering/development, IBM Corp., Computing, Security, Programmer, software, technology company, software development, Internet usage
Penguin unveils Linux-based HPC in the cloud
News Penguin Computing has begun allowing researchers, scientists and engineers to lease its high-performance computing capabilities through the cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, Computing, Intel Xeon, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., high-performance computing, University of Cambridge, high-performance, financial, Linux
Researchers tout 'wimpy nodes' for Net computing
News Carnegie Mellon researchers believe flash memory and feeble processors can do what conventional servers can't: power Internet sites at low power and low cost.
Tags: Components, Processors, Intel Corp., Computing, FAWN, David Andersen, Storage, Server, Intel Atom, Carnegie-Mellon University
Suddenly, infrastructure is cool again
News commentary Cloud computing would have happened anyway. But the recession has given IT a more pressing reason to consider making the switchover.
Tags: Innovation, Network infrastructure, Service level management, Web 2.0, Virtualization, Hardware, Computing, Storage, Cloud Computing, Jeff Bezos
IBM, Harvard tap compute cloud for solar research
News A grid-computing project led by Harvard University seeks to identify which organic materials would perform best as electricity-generating solar cells.
Tags: Market research, Green IT, Components, IBM Corp., Computing, Existing World Community Grid Project, nonprofit organization, solar cell, Computer, World Community Grid
IBM launches System S stream computing
News System S is a business analytics tool, built following five years of research into the real-time analysis of large amounts of unstructured business or scientific data.
Tags: Business applications, Data Management, IBM Corp., Multi-core, Computing, Data, Cell, Hardware, software, biomedical
IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract
News Initiative is first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency.
Tags: Supercomputing, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, DARPA, Tool, Computer, News.com, blog
Long live the Sneakernet: Computing's most resilient network
News The Sneakernet, where someone puts data on a disk, flash drive etc. and runs it to another computer, is arguably one of our most enduring networks.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data centers, Data Management, Microsoft Corp., Computing, Storage, Cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., Bandwidth
Stateless computing to become core to cloud computing?
News As cloud computing gathers like thunderheads on the horizon, stateless computing will be a core tenant, predicts Merrill Lynch's chief technology architect Jeffrey Birnbaum.
Tags: Utility computing, Software, Business applications, Banking, Computing, Google Inc., File System, Cloud Computing, Server, network
Indian schools spur virtual PC demand
News U.S.-based provider of desktop virtualization products, NComputing, expects its revenues from India to grow from 7 percent today to 35 percent by end-2009.
Tags: Desktops, Virtualization, Computing, India, IBM xSeries, software, processor, keyboard, revenue, U.S.
The real skinny on green computing
Techguide Green Computing is not just about saving the environment; it is about saving money and creating the most efficient data center possible.
Tags: Storage, Servers, Computing, Virtualization, CPU, server consolidation, Storage, Server Consolidation Initiative, Florida, Green Computing
Microsoft outlines the future of computing
News Software giant's research and strategy chief Craig Mundie says "spatial computing" will see people and sensors spewing trillions of bits of data, with programmers scrambling to mask complexity.
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Computing, 3D, software, processor, software development, Microsoft Surface, Cambridge, strategy, data service
Xerox hopes to print computing smarts on fabric, plastic
News Company says its new silver-based ink can be used to print electronic circuitry on everything from flexible e-book screens to pill bottles.
Tags: Handhelds, Xerox Corp., Computing, desktop printer, silicon chip, Smith, Conference, E-book Reader, Manufacturing, Inkjet Printer
