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While it used to be possible to operate a business in a paperless mode, it's now a straightforward proposition. We have finally arrived at the digital age.
While it used to be possible to operate a business in a paperless mode, it's now a straightforward proposition. We have finally arrived at the digital age.
What's remarkable is the pervasive level of inertia surrounding energy-efficient data centers—despite the relatively high ROI associated with green operations.
By Samuel Greengard These days, it's difficult to go anywhere without hearing the words "innovation" and "agility" tossed around. Every organization aims to embrace these lofty qualities, but few succeed. ....
How will we ever make sense of scientific topics that are too big to know? The short answer: by transforming what it means to know something scientifically. An excerpt from David Weinberger's new book, Too....
by Tim Moran "Honey, I'm a little chilly. Can you reboot the server please?" Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Virginia don't think that line is a joke--not if you have a "Data Furnace" in....
By Samuel Greengard In the spirit of Thanksgiving, here are seven technologies and products that aren't only cool, they've actually improved the quality of our lives: 1. A healthcare revolution. Research....
by Tim Moran This list of the Top 500 Supercomputers comes out every June and November, and I doubt if the minor ranking variations from one list to the next hold much interest to those not in the superco....
Early returns from our trends research (last year’s results here) shows the server, client-system, and storage refresh cycle continuing. When the Great Recession hit, companies scaled back their IT ....
By Samuel Greengard Manufacturers keep adding capabilities to devices, but I'm convinced that most of us rely on about 10 percent of the features available. Think about your DVR or fancy alarm clock; your....
by Tim Moran Technologist and author John Graham-Cumming is a man with a singular mission: He is set on executing a working version of Charles Babbage's heretofore unbuilt Analytical Engine, arguably the ....
by Samuel Greengard Pervasive networking has changed the way we access and use information. IT departments long focused on getting crucial bits--documents, spreadsheets, presentations, whatever--to the ....
Just come to my attention: Some recent work by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society on DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. Their December 2010 Report (PDF) focuses on politically bas....
by Samuel Greengard Did you ever think about how incredibly inefficient it is to procure parking places and how much time and gasoline we waste doing so? We're stuck with a chaotic mess because the opera....
By Tim Moran Preserving information for the long haul turns out to be a major challenge of the digital age, and we've covered a couple of perpetual storage concepts in recent posts. Now comes Millenniata....
"Two of the world's largest technology vendors surprised Wall Street by posting surging sales and profits in the first-quarter, and signaled brighter days ahead," reported the Wall Street Journal after IBM....