Scaled Storage Boosts Climate Modeling Efforts
Climate research projects based on big data analysis increasingly rely on big storage to track historical patterns and extrapolate future trends in a research area with countless variables. The ...Full Article
Spy Tools Come to the Cloud
Cloud computing is increasingly being used for intelligence-gathering and "threat analysis" as government vendors like Amazon Web Services join forces with analytics outfits that are meshing cognitive computing and ...Full Article
Juniper Networks Brings Computing Network Power to Wall St.
Juniper Networks today (April 6) unveiled an application acceleration switch and packet flow accelerator module designed to bring computing performance and customizable logic into the network to accelerate critical ...Full Article
U.S. Enlists Facebook Vet as IT Chief
Stung by a series of high-profile IT foul-ups related to implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the roll out of the healthcare.gov web site, the Obama administration has ...Full Article
Cloud-Based GPU Accelerators Crunch Financials
Graphics accelerators have been used over the last several years as a complement to or replacement for standard CPUs. GPU leaders like Nvidia have pushed the trend, arguing that ...Full Article
Cloud, Storage Deals Likely in ’15
Look for technology merger and acquisition activity that surged last year to continue in 2015 as potential suitors in sectors like software, cloud computing and storage seek to acquire ...Full Article
Pentagon Refines Cloud Security Rules
The Defense Information Systems Agency released new cloud security guidelines this week aimed at establishing policies for adoption of commercial cloud services by the U.S. military. The security requirements ...Full Article
Federal IT Reform Bill Headed For Passage
Legislation that would speed consolidation the federal government's more than 9,600 datacenters while centralizing the authority of agency chief information officers is expected to be approved by Congress this ...Full Article
Pentagon Readies New Cloud Plan
The Defense Department is preparing to issue a new strategy for procuring cloud services that reportedly downgrades the role of its current "cloud broker," giving more flexibility to individual ...Full Article
Steel Mill Transformed Into Juiced Datacenter
A former steel mill outside of Philadelphia that is connected to more than 2 gigawatts of electricity has been converted into a datacenter and is opening up its doors ...Full Article
