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Tilera’s new Chip a Threat to Intel?
Silicon Valley startup Tilera says the new chip design it intends to unveil later this year will deliver 10 times the capacity and be more energy-efficient than Intel’s best microprocessor. Its design, which will pack 100 microprocessors, or cores, onto a single thumbnail-size piece of silicon, will result in faster, energy-efficient computers capable of performing [...]
Red Hat Firms Up Cloud Computing Collaboration with NTT Communication
Red Hat, Inc. on Thursday announced that NTT Communications has expanded its Biz Hosting Basic cloud computing and hosting service through the expanded deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Raleigh NC based Red Hat first partnered with NTT Communications in the cloud in April 2010, with NTT joining Red Hat’s growing cloud [...]
Cloud Enables Federal Government to Shut 100 Data Centers in 2011
The Obama administration unveiled plans to shut down more than 100 of its 2,094 data centers by December 2011. Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told a Senate subcommittee today that this year the U.S. government could shut down 100 of the 800 data centers it intends to close by 2015. Mr. Kundra who is [...]
Microsoft to spend 90% of its Research Budget on Cloud computing
Microsoft has announced that it will be spending 90% of its $9.6 billion research budget on improving cloud computing technologies. In a statement by President Jean-Phillipe Courtois, the company outlined its strategic vision to engage with more small and medium-sized enterprises and boost its market share and make gains on its rival providers Salesforce.com, Oracle [...]
Cloud computing speeds trauma care at UC San Diego Health System.
UC San Diego Health System trauma patients are experiencing the benefits of cloud computing in the form of expedited care via an electronic, cloud-based approach to sharing radiology files with other medical institutions. The method is now being used to expedite the diagnosis and treatment of patients sent to UC San Diego Medical Center-Hillcrest from [...]
Rackspace, Salesforce.com executives appointed to US Cloud Computing Commission
The TechAmerica Foundation has appointed Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier and Salesforce.com CEO and Chairman Marc Benioff to its commission on the leadership opportunity in US deployment of the Cloud. The Commission, known as CLOUD2 seeks to make recommendations on how the US government should deploy cloud technologies and “address policies that might hinder US leadership [...]
NIST and GSA to release cloud guidance before the end of 2011
The National Institute of Standards (NIST) and the General Services Administration (GSA) have announced that they will release concrete information to assist agencies in adopting cloud computing technology, before the end of 2011. In an April 7 announcement at a cloud computing workshop at the agency offices in Gaithersburg, MD, Dawn Leaf, senior executive for [...]
Why Aren’t More Businesses Embracing The Cloud?
There’s a lot of confusion today about cloud computing and the supposed cost benefits that it offers. According to an interesting piece by Alok Misra in Information Week, many companies don’t seem to understand where these reduced costs come from. The reason is that many enterprises right now are not able to distinguish between on-site [...]
Why Aren't More Businesses Embracing The Cloud?
There’s a lot of confusion today about cloud computing and the supposed cost benefits that it offers. According to an interesting piece by Alok Misra in Information Week, many companies don’t seem to understand where these reduced costs come from. The reason is that many enterprises right now are not able to distinguish between on-site [...]
Explaining Cloud Advantages To Someone Who Doesn’t Have A Clue
What with cloud computing being all the rage today it’s hardly surprising that more and more computing companies are trying to take advantage of this boom by coming up with their own suite of cloud computing products and services. The trend is sure to get the attention of management from all over sooner or later, [...]
