The U.S. government's Big Data initiative is sparking more investments in data management projects, especially those involving joint efforts between business and government. Under the sponsorship of the Obama administration initiative, the White House showcased more than 30 Big Data projects Nov. 12...
The Computer History Museum has come a long way since its start in a closet at the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1975, as is evidenced by the institution's $19 million renovated facility opening its doors to the public Thursday. The renovated museum, housed in the former headquarters of Silicon G...
Nortel Networks has agreed to sell its two advanced wireless technology business units to Nokia Siemens for $650 million. The companies hope to close the sale by Q3 of this year. It is an ignominious end for the telco, which at one time was one of the dominant players in the global marketplace. In J...
Darwin's principle of "survival of the fittest" is in full effect in the corporate world. Over the years, many companies, especially technology firms, have risen to great heights only to fall to great depths. As Darwin's theory implies, when change swept through their industries, these once great fi...
What is virtualization anyway? The short answer is, virtualization is separating the physical layer from the logical layer -- the operating systems and applications. You can virtualize pretty much any aspect of IT. "There is no universal definition of virtualization as it means many things to many p...
The Open Source Development Labs on Wednesday announced the formation of a new Technical Advisory Board. The group's initial goal is to improve communication among Linux stakeholders. The OSDL is a non-profit global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux-based operating systems i...
Emulation and translation software company Transitive announced on Tuesday it's collaborating with Intel to drive the migration of older, RISC environments and applications that previously ran on non-Intel hardware to Intel's Itanium 2 and Xeon processors. Although the companies do not yet have prod...
The space shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003 sparked development of the world's second largest supercomputer, a system with 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors capable of performing 51.87 trillion calculations per second. Not only did the supercomputer, appropriately dubbed Columbia, stretch Li...
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