AccuWeather’s Compute Strategy Takes Forecasting to the Cloud at Scale
Weather and the cloud go together. Take AccuWeather, the State College, PA-based consumer and commercial weather services provider. Demand for weather forecast information from media outlets, from business customers ...Full Article
A User Guide For Securing Docker Containers
As important and prevalent Docker containers are today, they still pose a unique security risk for users. Containers simplify the distribution of software and allow greater sharing of resources ...Full Article
3D Flash Poised to Tower over the Storage Skyline
Three dimensions are better than two. I’ve read recently that the same forces that drove the amazing skylines of New York City upwards are operating in the opposite direction ...Full Article
U.S. Leverages HPC, Analytics For Smart Manufacturing
A smart manufacturing initiative launched last month by the Obama administration would seek to jumpstart an early version of an industrial Internet of Things via networks of smart sensors ...Full Article
NSA Looks to IT Industry to Harden Vulnerable U.S. Nets
U.S. intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, are increasingly turning to commercial solutions in their efforts to head off the alarming number of cyber attacks that culminated in ...Full Article
Researchers Endorse ‘Quantum-Safe’ Cloud Security
With cyber attacks on IT infrastructure growing more sophisticated and costly by the day, researchers are looking for new ways to stay ahead of hackers by strengthening encryption. Among ...Full Article
IBM Joins Blockchain Push
The launch earlier this year of an open transaction initiative designed to develop industry standards for blockchain technology generated much interest and buzz. For example, the financial and technology ...Full Article
Genomic Sequencing at Children’s Mercy: Saving Time to Save Lives
Genomic sequencing – that is, rapid sequencing – is instrumental to diagnosing and treating critically ill patients, and managing the high data volumes involved in genomics is essential to ...Full Article
IoT, Containers Seen Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Push
The steady, seemingly inexorable, shift to enterprise hybrid cloud infrastructure is being driven by factors ranging from the disaggregation of storage from computing resources in the datacenter to the ...Full Article
eBay’s Liquid Cooled Billion-transactions-a-day Data Center
Water transports heat 25 times more efficiently than air, but water and electronics don’t mix – hence the prevalence of air cooling in the data center. It’s controlling water’s ...Full Article
