
New TI SoC Halves System Costs
Texas Instruments is challenging makers of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and targeting high-performance vertical markets with today's release of its Keystone-based 66AK2L06 System-on-Chip (SoC). The solution, which uses the JESD204B interface ...Full Article
ScaleOut Offers Microsoft AppFabric Alternative
IT professionals concerned about the viability or open source nature of the substitutes Microsoft suggested when it stops supporting AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server on April 2, 2016, have ...Full Article
Cloud Competitors Nip at AWS’ Heels
Well-established cloud service providers remain enterprises' partners of choice, but challengers are nipping at their heels as more organizations turn to cloud for myriad infrastructure needs, a new report ...Full Article
Docker Attracts Big Fish, Eyes Micro-Service Platform
Application container specialist Docker Inc. announced its latest and greatest funding round this week totaling $95 million, attracting such heavyweights as financial services giants Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust. ...Full Article
New Windows Vulnerability at Large, Security Vendor Says
Security developer Cylance recently uncovered a new technique for stealing log-in credentials from any Windows PC, tablet, or server – including those running previews of the not-yet-released Windows 10. ...Full Article
SGI Supercomputer Upgrade to Boost Total Exploration in 2016
Energy giant Total will use its recently announced supercomputer upgrade to improve the productivity and efficiency of its seismic processing and reservoir simulation processes when the system goes live next ...Full Article
HGST Puts Software Spin on Hard Drive Storage
The waterfall of unstructured data pouring into datacenters is fueling the need for data and object storage approaches that retain all that stuff while at the same time making ...Full Article
Cisco Survey Sees Evolving Security Threats
IT infrastructure and the applications they deliver along with emerging open-source web frameworks remain the most attractive targets for hackers and cyber-criminals, according to new web security research data. ...Full Article
Public Cloud In, Virtualization Out by 2019
Enterprises are leaving behind virtualization and rapidly advancing toward internal and hosted private clouds as organizations drive toward more innovation, more efficient infrastructures, and more business-oriented IT departments. By ...Full Article
IBM to Invest $3B to Bring IoT to the Enterprise
The money keeps pouring into the thing called the Internet of Things. IBM joined a growing list of technology giants this week in announcing plans to invest $3 billion ...Full Article