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Sun: computing service providers are the future
News The way Sun Microsystems sees things, Moore's Law divides the computer technology market into two parts: those who will buy computers and those who will rent computing services from the first group. Informally, it also stands for steady...
[October 26, 2006, 9:35]
Computing Aggregates for Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper briefly describes an architecture for sensor network monitoring, then focus on one aspect of this architecture: continuously computing aggregates (sum, average, count) of network properties (loss rates, energy-levels etc.packet counts).
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud - computing structure
Blog So, is the cumulus nimbus too fluffy to support real world cloud computing structures right now? Commentators have suggested that cloud computing really doesn’t break the mould to quite the degree that the technology publicists would have us believe.
[August 17, 2008, 16:04]
Humanity: Computing's biggest problem
News And while past gatherings have looked at such radical user interfaces, this year's New Paradigms in User Computing conference was focused on getting a handle on what is understood about the way people use the technology they have.
[July 17, 2003, 10:10]
Middleware: Computing's unsung hero
News With the spread of networks and applications working across them we can now see computing as a truly social device, enabling the proliferation of services and communication across multiple platforms. We can no longer afford to represent computing...
[February 1, 2005, 16:20]
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud - computing structure
Blog Comment I forgot to draw parallels with, or even use the term, "clustered computing" in that blog. Oops and yikes! Virtualisation.you're right mate - that reminds me. Very naughty of me. Can you imagine that the IT industry would re-purpose (their term...
[August 17, 2008, 19:17]
Distributed computing cracks Enigma code
News More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. The M4 Project began in early January, as an attempt to break three...
[February 27, 2006, 16:30]
Technical Video Overview of the New Cisco Unified Computing System
White Papers The Cisco Unified Computing System provides the capability to scale virtualized resources, reduce the time to deploy new applications, and re-provision resources quickly and efficiently. This video data sheet provides an overview of the Cisco...
[March 20, 2009, 7:37]
Veritas invests in utility computing
News Veritas Software plans to build out its utility-computing portfolio with the acquisition of software maker Ejasent for $59m (£32.4m). Veritas' purchase of the Ejasent, which was founded in 1999, follows the acquisition last year of two other...
[January 7, 2004, 14:30]
Comdex 2001: Mobile computing gets real
News With the show floor packed with mobile product vendors, the usual optimism about mobile computing is bolstered by real, and useful, enterprise-class applications and development environments. Mobile computing must have had an overabundance of...
[November 14, 2001, 15:30]
Accenture: Time is ripe to test cloud computing
News "Cloud computing" is now mature enough for chief information officers to "experiment" with, according to Accenture's chief scientist. Cloud computing allows you to quickly scale up a project without risk, and, if the project fails, gracefully...
[May 22, 2008, 11:54]
Experiences With Place Lab: An Open Source Toolkit for Location-Aware Computing
White Papers Location-Based Computing (LBC) is becoming increasingly important in both industry and academia. A key challenge is the pervasive deployment of LBC technologies; to be effective they must run on a wide variety of client platforms, including laptops...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Virtualisation will power utility computing
News IBM will provide essential plumbing for its utility computing vision later this year when it introduces a collection of technology that joins management software to hardware that comes with the company's Power5 processor.
[April 29, 2004, 16:40]
IDC predicts utility computing boom
News As technology suppliers ease systems management, spending for products that deal in utility computing will surge in coming years, analyst firm IDC is predicting. An idea sweeping the computing industry, utility computing -- known by various labels...
[January 15, 2004, 8:50]
Ten Things to Know About Grid Computing on Windows
White Papers What's more, an Oracle Grid can help you gain control of your computing resources on the database and application server tiers This Oracle whitepaper offers insights into Oracle Grid. A grid allows a business to add capacity, cheaply, whenever it...
[January 19, 2009, 11:14]
UK School Transforms Computing Department and Introduces New Learning Opportunities for Its Students
White Papers The school's computing department needed to review its technology infrastructure to assist teachers deliver an advanced learning environment and help its pupils learn the 21st century skills necessary for working life.
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics Boosts Supercomputing Power With Dell High-Performance Computing Cluster Based on PowerEdge Servers, Dell Precision Workstations and Linux SuSe
White Papers Swinburne implemented a high performance computing cluster technology solution with 90 rack-mounted Dell PowerEdge 2650 Dual Xeon servers, 30 Dell Dual Xeon Precision 530s. The Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (SCAS), is host to...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
IBM services arm readies for on-demand computing
News IBM is building up management consulting services tailored to specific industries to bolster a key part of its "on-demand" computing initiative. The on-demand plan will let companies purchase computing power, storage or applications on an as-needed...
[April 14, 2003, 9:04]
Ballmer: Make computing easier
News During his opening keynote, which kicked off this year's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft President Steve Ballmer entreated hardware developers to renew their vision of the way computing devices should look and act...
[April 8, 1999, 9:33]
Developers: Do you buy the ‘Context-Aware’ computing concept?
Blog Well for starters, if you are Gartner you can coin the term context-aware computing just about any time you like. If you can’t wait to get your hands on the Gartner Special Report, “Context-Aware Computing: A Looming Disruption” then there’s your...
[September 29, 2009, 5:43]
