QLogic mourns chairman’s sudden passing
Data center networking equipment maker QLogic announced on Monday that H.K. Desai, a long time company veteran who most recently served as executive chairman and the head of its board, has passed away Sunday…
Intel bids to solve water shortages with Big Data
Much of the conversation around Big Data is focused on big business and how it can be used to make money, but that’s not the only opportunity it presents. On the contrary, the real…
Salesforce connects wearable tech to the workplace, launches Wear
Hoping to get in on the ground floor of the emerging BYOx (Bring Your Own Anything) market, Salesforce is launching the Wear platform, a dedicated initiative for wearable computing in the enterprise. Despite shaky…
HP’s Federated Catalyst aims to simplify backup silo management
Just before the HP Discover event kicks off in Las Vegas today, Hewlett-Packard has announced a number of new backup, recovery and archive solutions. But the real standout of these products is the addition…
HP takes on supercomputer giants with water-cooled Apollo system
HP has just entered the supercomputer game, offering an eco-friendly way for enterprises to access petaflops of computing power. Announced just before the opening of its HP Discover event in Las Vegas, the company…
Hadoop security back in the spotlight
Data security is becoming an even bigger priority than it has been so far as organizations extract more value from their fast-growing data troves, but Hadoop, the single most popular platform for storing and…
WebOS sees new life in smart homes, leverages 1 million user milestone
This week’s Smart Living roundup features WebOS’ new life as a smart home solution, and home automation solution for DIYers. WebOS now in 1 million homes When HP acquired Palm, many had high…
Rethinking infrastructure : Facebook adds availability with HBase fork
Having reached a tipping point in the volume of unstructured information years before the new reality of data management dawned upon the rest of the industry, the world’s largest Internet companies had no choice…
AI milestone: Computer passes Turing test by posing as a 13-year-old boy
By Kyt Dotson
A computer program at the University of Reading in the U.K. has achieved an artificial intelligence milestone by passing the venerated Turning Test. The software, called Eugene Goostman, attempts to simulate a 13-year-old Ukranian…
When it comes to cloud, “the biggest challenge is bandwidth” | #IBMedge
Every year, IBM recognizes their most successful partners with Winning Edge awards. This year, ProActive solutions received a Winning Edge storage award. Phil Schamberger, Director of Technical delivery at ProActive Solutions, stopped by theCUBE…