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Dundee picked to support worldwide web infrastructure
Dundee has been chosen by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) for the location of a new root server in Scotland to support the internet's main infrastructure. read more »
HSBC adopts new platform to protect internal IT
HSBC Bank UK is deploying a new system to centrally secure its distributed IT infrastructure. read more »
Outage at NYSE forces brokers to trade on other exchanges
NYSE Euronext suffered a technical glitch in its new matching engine today, which led to a full day of disruption for brokers who were forced to trade on other exchanges. read more »
Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer takes IBM's No 1 spot in Top500 HPC list
The US Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new Titan system, a Cray XK7, has been anointed as the world's fastest supercomputer in the newly released 40th edition of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest supercomputers. read more »
Nvidia, AMD debut graphics processors for supercomputers
Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers. read more »
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How to secure Big Data in Hadoop
The promise of big data is enormous, but it can also become an albatross around your neck if you don't make security of both your data and your infrastructure a key part of your big data project from the beginning. Here are some steps you can take to avoid big data pitfalls. read more »
Power efficiency a growing concern in the data centre and for end users
If a September report in the New York Times is to be believed, worldwide data centres use up 30 billion watts of electricity - or the same as 30 nuclear power stations - in "an incongruously wasteful manner". read more »
HANA is nothing short of dazzling, says SAP, which early customers confirm
Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the HANA in-memory database, which first became generally available last year. According to SAP, HANA provides a level of performance improvement that can be nothing short of dazzling. read more »
Next-generation infrastructures need smarter silicon
Given the explosive growth in data traffic, Moore's Law is not enough to keep pace with demand for higher network speeds. A smarter silicon and software approach is needed. read more »
Why putting your data centre in Canada makes sense
With its cool climate, low risk rating and skilled labour force, Canada seems like a great spot to build a new data center. If that's where your customers are, experts say, there's no reason not to expand north of the border. Otherwise, think twice. read more »
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HANA is nothing short of dazzling, says SAP, which early customers confirm
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HP and Intel announce Poulson and New Integrity servers
On Tuesday November 8, after more than a year of pre-announcement disclosures which eventually left very little to the imagination, Intel finally announced the Itanium 9500, formerly known as Poulson. Added to this was the big surprise of HP announcing...read more »
A week after Hurricane Sandy: How did our business technology resiliency plans fare?
While there are still over a million people without electricity and significant recovery efforts underway, I'm overall impressed with the level of resiliency and preparedness many organisations exhibited during (and since) Sandy.I stress resiliency over recovery here because I believe...read more »
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Global manufacturer ditches underperforming IBM in favour of IaaS provider
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