IBM Goes All-In With Apache Spark
IBM has jumped on the Apache Spark bandwagon, revealing it would throw its considerable weight behind the open source big data project that has been gaining momentum over the ...Full Article
Ex-Baidu Researcher Ren Wu Denies Wrongdoing
Dr. Ren Wu vigorously denies the charges of cheating that led Baidu to reportedly fire the head of its Heterogeneous Computing team after the Chinese search engine developer's supercomputer team ...Full Article
Verisae Platform Connects IoT Puzzle Pieces
To derive full value from the Internet of Things (IoT), organizations must integrate existing networks, databases, and applications with new sensors, field management systems, and related technologies. Solutions tying ...Full Article
Intel Eyes Datacenter, IoT with Altera Deal
Intel is targeting the integration of its processors with FPGAs in the datacenter and for the Internet of Things (IoT) with its $16.7 billion deal announced Monday (June 1) ...Full Article
IoT Caveats for Chip Makers
If nothing else, the Internet of Things certainly does generate a lot of research reports. The latest comes from the respected management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. that zeroes ...Full Article
Samsung Enters IoT Fray with Dev Platform
The other shoe has dropped in the race to define the conceptual framework called the Internet of Things as technology juggernaut Samsung Electronics unveiled its vision that is built ...Full Article
IEEE: Computing ‘Earthquake’ Needed As Scaling Stalls
Computer scientists worried about the end of computing as we know it have been banging heads for several years looking for ways to return to the historical exponential scaling ...Full Article
Intel’s New Xeon E7 Family Targets Big Data
Intel wants to address enterprises' mission-critical, analytics, and big data processing needs with the advent of its new Xeon E7-4800 v3 and E7-8800 v3 x86 chips. The Santa Clara, ...Full Article
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
IT Help Wanted, Especially Security Experts
They say security breaches are like heart attacks: You don't start exercising until you've had one. It appears that a lengthening series of high-profile security breaches using increasingly sophisticated ...Full Article
