Monthly Archives: July 2015
China’s Tianhe-2 Remains Atop List of World’s Fastest Systems
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer once again sits atop the list of the world's fastest systems, a position it now has held for more than two...
HP, Intel Partner to Expand HPC Into New Areas
Hewlett-Packard and Intel are partnering to help push high-performance computing capabilities beyond traditional business segments like oil and gas, life sciences and financial services...
Eight Factors to Consider for Database Capacity Planning
Eight Factors to Consider for Database Capacity Planning
By Darryl K. Taft
Working Set Size
This is the set of data a system needs to address during...
Businesses Look to Cloud to Reduce Costs, Improve Efficiency
The vast majority of businesses are pursuing a cloud adoption strategy with the primary goals of improving IT efficiencies and reducing costs, according to...
Financial, Health Care Sectors Lead IT Spending
IT operational budgets in 2015 are up 5.5 percent at median in the financial services sector, with about three-quarters of the surveyed banks, insurers...
Microsoft Mobile Cloud Adoption Gives Partners Pause
While momentum for Office 365 seems to be building, customers remain cautious about core business application migration and partners are still uncertain about the...
AWS API Gateway, Device Farm Are Wins for Developers
NEW YORK—Amazon Web Services keeps hitting home runs for developers as it grows AWS beyond its infrastructure-as-a-service base. Since the re:Invent conference last November,...
MLB’s Baseball History Comes Alive With Cooperstown’s iOS App
Baseball lovers now have something to relish as they spend hours driving in their vehicles: a new baseball history app from the National Baseball...
Legal Battles Could Trim Down Bloatware
When antivirus firm Avira began warning its users that software installed from download site Freemium.com came bundled with "potentially unwanted applications," the site demanded...
OPM Director Resigns After Breaches, but the Real Work Remains
The news from the Office of Personnel Management on July 10 was something most people in Washington were looking for. The director of the...