To help his company run more efficiently, SAP chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner has shifted his business to helping humans to run more efficiently as well. Plattner, who turns 70 next year, says that helping doctors to use medical data can help them to make faster, more accurate decisions that will ultimately deliver more personalized ...Full article
Although retailers have a lot to look forward to in near field communication-enabled (NFC) smartphones, which are slated to give the sector a boost by delivering consumer data while enabling contactless checkouts, the revolution hasn’t taken off as quickly as predicted. In July, Strategy Analytics reported that NFC-equipped smartphones had reached a worldwide “tipping point,” ...Full article
When a mechanic takes a look under the hood only to find that a part was incorrectly manufactured, automakers have a number of choices. In the past, the company would probably have recalled an entire model so that customers would be safe rather than sorry. While this could unnecessarily convenience tens of thousands of car ...Full article
ARM server chip supplier Calxeda is just about to ship its second generation of EnergyCore processors for hyperscale systems and most of its competitors are still working on their first products. Calxeda is also tweaking its roadmap to add a new chip to its lineup, which will bridge between the current 32-bit ARM chips and ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/02-plane.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="42" border="0" />Synonymous with the more commonly known term, additive manufacturing, direct digital manufacturing (DDM) is becoming an option for manufacturers that need to produce parts as quickly as possible.Full article
The next time you load an old photo from your Facebook archive, the odds are increasingly likely that it won't be coming out of one of the social network's three data centers, but a new cold storage facility that just opened up adjacent to the company's Prineville, Oregon datacenter. The cold storage technologies that Facebook ...Full article
Cloud Spectator, which offers cloud performance monitoring services, has put together some interesting benchmark tests that pit bare metal cloud capacity from Internap against virtual machine slices from Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Hosting. Cloud computing implies server virtualization, but it does not require it – at least by some definitions. Server virtualization allows for ...Full article
Already retailers have tapped into the bluetooth and WiFi capabilities of many smartphones to learn more about shoppers’ behavior as they travel through stores and shopping malls. But with Apple’s iBeacon entering the game, what does this mean for retail? iBeacon is based on the same Bluetooth Low Energy or Bluetooth Smart technology that is ...Full article
Not only does Formula One racing represent the cutting edge of motorsports, but it has also become a test track for innovations that may one day come to your own vehicle. But it doesn’t stop at the automotive industry. As teams rely on more data from sensors across F1 tracks and cars, the sport is ...Full article
Building new datacenters is difficult. They are expensive, lengthy, and complex IT projects that have massive up front costs and usually have some surprises. Converging server, storage, and networking infrastructure and thinking at the rack level makes building datacenters easier. What if you could take the converged infrastructure model, and scale it to the actual ...Full article
Heng Huang, a computer scientist at UT Arlington, has been tasked with leading a National Science Foundation (NSF) project to mine medical records data to personalize patient care and predict issues that could lead to readmission. The project is called “Robust Large-Scale Electronic Medical Record Data Mining Framework to Conduct Risk Stratification for Personalized Invention,” ...Full article
On Wednesay, Cambridge startup Nutonian (pronounced “Newtonian”) announced that it’s raised $4 million with the help of Atlas Venture to build its own analytics platform to unlock the “laws of physics” that govern businesses. Nutonian’s founder and CEO, Michael Schmidt, received his PhD from Cornell University in computational data mining methods for physics and biology. ...Full article
Enterprises that are looking to deploy servers and racks based on the Open Compute Project's designs have a new option now that Quanta QCT is ready to sell iron in North America. Quanta Computer is one of the largest manufacturers of laptops in the world, and actually makes many of the machines that end up with ...Full article
Whether you’re applying for a job or are simply protective of your Web-browsing history, the mantra has been the same for years: be careful what you put on the Internet. But for those concerned about retailers buying online browsing information to send personalized advertisements their way, browsers have developed a “do not track” standard that’s ...Full article
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted $30 million through 11 awards to strengthen the defenses of the nation’s electrical grid as well as the infrastructure surrounding the oil and gas industry. The awards include $3.25 million to ViaSat, a Carlsbad, Calif.,-based cybersecurity company that will work with Southern California Edison and another large ...Full article
The server virtualization gravy train just keeps rolling for VMware. Despite ongoing and large investments in research and development, the company has been able to grow its net income considerably faster than it is growing revenues. This is a sure sign that VMware has become an established player in the datacenter that enterprises have come ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/logo-with-glow.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="26" border="0" />This past Monday, the International Society of Automation (ISA), a global, nonprofit organization that helps members solve technical automation problems, announced that it would be running an Industrial Automation and Control educational track at the ISA Automation Week Technology and Solutions Event.Full article
Clouds, storage arrays, and clustered database servers are turning into very good drivers of business for Mellanox Technologies. These target markets together now account for more sales than its traditional business of selling adapters and switches that end up is parallel supercomputer clusters. In a conference call going over the financial results for the company's ...Full article
OpenStack may get a lot of attention these days, but plenty of enterprise customers who are building private clouds choose Eucalyptus Systems and its eponymous cloud controller. The reason why is simple: Eucalyptus is committed to having the best compatibility with the Amazon Web Services public cloud. Eucalyptus is not completely open source, but uses ...Full article
Despite uncertainty that has surrounded scientific research after the government shutdown, cloud computing company Veeva Systems went public last week and has declared that its focus will lie on the life sciences. Priced at $20 per share, Veeva’s stock climbed 85 percent on its debut day. According to Veeva CEO Peter Gassner, its focus on ...Full article
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