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IoT at Alaska’s DoT: To De-ice or Not to De-Ice?
It's still early days for the Internet of Things, much in the way of IoT platforms and infrastructure must evolve before “the connected society” encompassing tens of billions of ...Full Article
It’s Time to Dry Up the (IT) Waterfalls for Good
Waterfalls are among the most beautiful spectacles in nature – the cascading water, the shimmering spray, the refracted light. “As long as I live,” John Muir wrote, “I’ll hear ...Full Article
HPE Spins Software Unit to Focus on Infrastructure
As at least one competitor gets bigger, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) got smaller this week with an $8.8 billion spinoff and merger of its software unit with staid software vendor ...Full Article
IBM Unveils Power8 Linux Servers
Not long after revealing more details about its next-gen Power9 chip due in 2017, IBM has rolled out three new Power8-based Linux servers and a new version of its ...Full Article
Facebook and Natural Disasters: Extreme Scale Data Center Resiliency
Fans of “The Social Network,” a movie about the early days of Facebook, (and one that, last we heard, Mark Zuckerberg has never seen), will remember the scene when ...Full Article
FinServe Big Data Analytics and the Cloud: Strategies and How To’s
The future isn’t what it used to be in the financial services industry. The present isn’t, either. The past, for that matter, wasn’t as tranquil as might be thought. ...Full Article
Nvidia Adds ‘Parker’ CPU to ‘Brain of Autonomous Vehicles’
Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle strategy took a step forward this week with the announcement of a new mobile CPU, called “Parker,” offered to automakers as a single unit or integrated ...Full Article
Bullish Hadoop Forecast Despite Spark Hype
Despite major market inroads being made by Apache Spark, a new forecast estimates the global market for the Hadoop big data framework will continue to grow at a healthy ...Full Article
Data Lakes and Overcoming the Waste of ‘Data Janitor’ Duties
Data lakes solve a lot of problems in today's big data world. When properly designed, they serve as an efficient means for storing large volumes and varieties of data. ...Full Article
NVIDIA Cries Foul on Intel Phi AI Benchmarks
This week saw the eruption of a vendor spat when NVIDIA, developer of GPUs widely used in the AI/machine learning market, alleged foul play against Intel in recent comparative ...Full Article
