Saturday, August 31, 2013

Deep Dive into the Development of Xeon Phi

You’ve probably been told that you only use 10% of your brain’s capacity—a ridiculous myth that has been disproven over and over again. But in the world of parallel computing, it’s true that less than 20% of the chip area is dedicated to the processor core, which is the heart of a computer’s architecture.

(Read my complete blog at GoParallel)

Leap for Quantum Supercomputing

A new way to manipulate microwave signals discovered by scientists at Yale University could boost efforts to develop a quantum supercomputer—which could revolutionize information processing through unprecedented speed and power.

(Read my complete blog at GoParallel)

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Putting a face to the BYODer

The typical BYODer now has a face, sort of, courtesy of a new study by CompTIA.

The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon has been sweeping the workplace, and CompTIA recently survey 700 office workers to get a better sense of who is participating.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Avaya launches UC, cloud consulting services

Avaya has launched two new cloud computing and unified communications consulting services, aimed at cloud service providers and enterprise customers.

The first service is called Cloud Transformation Services and is a set of services to help customers transition their Avaya communications services to the cloud, according to a report on CRN.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Autodesk SaaS product could accelerate infrastructure projects

With all countries struggling to improve aging infrastructure, Autodesk has launched a new cloud-based infrastructure modeling platform that it says will help accelerate the ability of specific projects to seek and qualify for funding.

(Read my entire article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Case study: Oregon schoolchildren living well in the cloud

By all accounts, Oregon schoolchildren have been living very well in the cloud so far.

This fall, the Oregon Virtual School District completes its third year as the first state-wide rollout for Google Applications for Education, a cloud-based platform for email, student accounts, profiles, database access, file sharing and collaboration services for students. A majority of local school districts have signed on to the program, which serves 76 percent of students in grades 6-12 in the state.

(Read my entire article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Telecommunications jobs sizzle this summer

This summer is hot, hot, hot for telecommunications professionals, according to a recent jobs forecast (.pdf) analysis by Foote Partners, a labor research and analysis firm in Vero Beach, Fla.

IT jobs overall are doing well right now, accounting for 11 percent of all new jobs added in June and July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But telecommunications, data processing, hosting and related services lead the pack.

(Read my entire article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Business, IT at odds on network infrastructure investments

Business and IT leaders are at odds when it comes to making smart network infrastructure investments. That is among the findings of a new study by Forrester Research, "The Expectation Gap Increases Between Business and IT Leaders."

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

HIPCOM acqusition broadens BroadSoft reach in Europe

Looking to expand its reach in Europe, BroadSoft, Inc. this week announced it is acquiring Hosted IP Communications (Europe) Limited (HIPCOM), a leading communications-as-a-service (CaaS) provider. The move will enable BroadSoft to expand its BroadCloud PBX service to the U.K.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Scotland's economic future tied to the cloud

The future of Scotland's economy lies in the cloud. At least, that is the view of David Mundell, under-secretary of state for Scotland.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Network performance monitoring flexing its muscle

The emergence of the network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) tool market will change the way I&O organizations evaluate, select and purchase network management solutions, according to new research from Gartner.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

A good time to work in IT again

By several accounts, it's a good time to work in IT again.

From hiring, to skills demand, to compensation and certification pay, the signs are all pointing upward for IT professionals for the first time in a while. The best news: Cloud computing and unified communications are among the industry's strong job and skills demand areas.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Microsoft sued over Surface RT sales reporting

Adding insult to injury, Microsoft was slapped with a lawsuit this week that charges the firm with misleading investors on the poor sales of its Surface RT tablets.

(Read my complete article at FierceCIO)

Friday, August 16, 2013

Supercomputing Spotlighted in Oklahoma

The deadly tornado that ripped through Oklahoma in May serves as a painful example of the importance of the role of the nation’s supercomputers, including in atmospheric research. And now the state is set to host the 12th annual Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, bringing together developers, programmers, academics and government officials to discuss the latest developments in the world of High-Performance Computing. 

(Read my complete blog at GoParallel)

Supercomputers Shed New Light on Black Hole Mysteries

The mystery surrounding black holes–objects with such incredibly dense mass and powerful gravitational forces that even light itself can’t escape from them–makes them almost mythic in stature in the realm of astronomy.

But with the help of supercomputers, researchers have been able to shed light on these fascinating objects, including recent discoveries that have overturned some long-held assumptions on the nature of black holes and how they impact materials in space.

(Read my complete blog at GoParallel)

Parallel Popularity Making the Grade

Things are heating up in the Arizona desert for parallel computing. Arizona State University, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and the Intel Academic Community have joined forces to bring parallel computing to the school.

(Read my complete blog at GoParallel)

DOD Deploys Two New Supercomputers

New supercomputers going online is almost becoming commonplace this year, but the Army Research Laboratory, Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center (ARL DSRC) has upped the ante by recently deploying two.

(Read my complete blog at GoParallel)

PaRSEC Paves Way for Exascale Supercomputer Generation

With supercomputers constantly setting new speed records, some predict that we will have exascale supercomputers by the end of the decade. An exascale supercomputer would be able to perform a quintillion (or 1,000 quadrillion) floating point operations per second– approximately 1,000 times faster than today’s behemoths.

(Read my complete blog at GoParallel)

Intel Rides Wave of Rapid Supercomputer Growth

With the global supercomputer market expected to grow from $11 billion this year to $15 billion by 2015, Intel is setting supercomputers as one of its top priorities, says Intel Korea executive Lee Hee-sung.

(Read my complete blog at GoParallel)

Empowering support staff

Mention healthcare employees to most people, and the two job roles that come to mind are doctors and nurses. But there are dozens – perhaps hundreds – of job roles in healthcare which contribute to patient care and operations, not one of which is unimportant. The unfortunate thing is that they too often go overlooked when the conversation turns to empowering healthcare workers.

(Read my complete article at Healthcare Finance News)

Friday, August 9, 2013

Spotlight: BYOD usage now up to 90%

The number of workers who have used their personal smartphones for work in the past year is now up to 90 percent.

(Read my complete blog at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Most organizations kidding themselves on social collaboration technology

When it comes to social collaboration technology, many organizations that claim to use it aren't really doing so, and many others that do aren't using it to its full potential.

Those are among the findings from research by Avanade in its report, "Global Survey: Is enterprise social collaboration living up to its promise?"

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Clouds aren't worth the price, ProfitBricks says

Don't kid yourself that cloud computing prices are justified, despite recent pricing gouging. That is the claim of cloud hosting company ProfitBricks, which this week lashed out at rivals for misleading customers on their pricing strategies.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Google, Microsoft chasing Amazon in the cloud

No doubt unhappy that Amazon Web Services leads the cloud computing service sector, both Google and Microsoft are adding new features to their services in an effort to catch up, while also heating up the competition between each other.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Case study: BYOD keeps hospital group on competitive edge

Many organizations absolutely shudder at the thought of implementing a BYOD program, but one Florida hospital has enthusiastically embraced BYOD as part of the solution to a totally electronic healthcare experience.

Three weeks ago, NCH Health Systems in Naples, Fla., banned paper from its premises--literally.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

'Father of the Data Center Industry' Ken Brill dies

The Uptime Institute announced last week that its founder, Kenneth G. Brill, died on Tuesday. Brill was 69.

An electrical engineer by profession, Brill played an enormous role in shaping the modern data center industry. Indeed, he was known as "The Father of the Data Center Industry."

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Monday, August 5, 2013

Europe's GEANT research network gets major upgrade

The superfast GEANT European research network got even faster last week, when it was upgraded to a 2-terabits-per-second capacity.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

BYOD market worth $181 billion by 2017

That the BYOD phenomenon is exploding comes as no surprise. But now we know just how fast: It is predicted to be a market worth $181 billion by 2017.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Spotlight: The see, hear and speak no evil of BYOD

Corporate policies about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs may be worse than previously thought. Instead of acknowledging the inevitability of BYOD and implementing well-thought-out programs, most organizations remain in denial or mum on the subject.

(Read my complete blog on the topic at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Telecommunications jobs sizzle this summer

This summer is hot, hot, hot for telecommunications professionals, according to a recent jobs forecast (.pdf) analysis by Foote Partners, a labor research and analysis firm in Vero Beach, Fla.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Cloud security certification in the works following NSA revelations

Fallout from the National Security Agency (NSA) scandal continues as a new cloud security certification program is in the works to ease the fear of non-U.S. organizations.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

BYOD gets its first certification

It's official… BYOD has come of age.

Condition Zebra, a global IT risk management solutions provider, has just announced that it is offering the industry's first certification that focuses on Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environments. The certification is part of the company's Information Risk Management 360 suite of consulting and educational services.

(Read my complete article in FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Farm to Finance (Profile of June M. Johnson, CTP)

As much as June Johnson is a people person, those who know her really well know of her great fondness for animals. It is a trait that comes naturally.

“I grew up on a farm—a true farm girl,” Johnson said. “We had 200 acres and it was a working farm, so I know how to drive a tractor; harvest beans and corn; bail hay; take care of cattle, pigs, chickens, sheep, goats, rabbits, and of course, cats and dogs.”
 
 


Sunday, August 4, 2013

Hurricane Hunt Gets New Supercomputing Boost

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently launched a new supercomputer to help track hurricanes this summer, which is predicted to be worse than last year’s devastating season.

The new supercomputer uses a Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) model that the center says will improve forecast models by 10% to 15%.

(Read my complete article at GoParallel)

Spotlight: Researchers fool yacht with fake GPS course

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have succeeded in generating fake global positioning satellite (GPS) signals that fooled a yacht and its crew on the course the boat was heading.

(Read my full article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Google traffic devours 25% of the Internet

Nearly 25 percent of all Internet traffic in North America now comes through Google, and at a growth rate that exceeds the Internet itself, according to a recent study from analytics firm DeepField.

(Read my complete article in FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Taking stock on cloud computing in the market

Two finance reports caught my attention on cloud computing this week. The first was a report that cloud computing has hit the German stock exchange. The second was a look at which were the best and worst performing U.S. stocks for the first half of 2013.

(Read my full article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Two new studies paint healthy UC market picture

The unified communications market continues to get more than its fair share of research attention. Two recent reports paint a healthy future for the segment for the next five years.

(Read my full article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Software-defined networks making small inroads

Telecommunication carriers are embracing software-defined networks is small ways, according to new research from Infonetics Research.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

UCT, Enterasys partnership has Caribbean appeal

The Caribbean region should benefit from new secure networking solutions following the announced partnership last week of Enterasys Networks and Unified Communications Technologies. Enterasys is a subsidiary of Siemens Enterprise Communications. UCT is a leading consultant and customized solution provider.

(Read my complete article at FierceEnterpriseCommunications)