Commercializing ITIL Weakens IT Service Management Oct 22, 2009
CIOUpdate guest columnist David Mainville of Consulting-Portal (CIO Information Network)
Field experiment on a robust hierarchical metropolitan quantum cryptography network Oct 16, 2009
However, the security of a majority of classical cryptography is based on the complexity of the cipher algorithms and the development of distributed computing and specific hacking chips. Especially the quantum computer has become as a serious threat to classical cryptography nowadays. (EurekAlert!)
NTT, Ubitus in Alliance to Promote Multi-Device Video Distribution Business Oct 6, 2009
Ubitus's distributed computing technology helps to centralize computing power, democratize access, and optimize network bandwidth consumption. NTT Group's image processing technologies, such as encoding, together with Ubitus technology, allow for image conversion processing with a large load to multiple devices, including on-demand. (JCN Network, Japan)
Northrop wins technology support contract extension Sep 15, 2009
Northrop Grumman's Information Systems sector will provide onsite management, and operation and support of the city and county's data center, help desk, networks and distributed computing. The work will include repairing, installing and moving desktops. (FCW.com)
Red Hat promotes cloud projects, pans Microsoft and VMware Sep 4, 2009
The states, "The goal of Project Hail is to provide language-neutral, OS-neutral, highly available distributed computing services that others may use to build cloud computing applications." Contributors can get involved in the project at the wiki page, which states that Hail is an alpha stage of development. An open sourceproject introduced Thursday, Deltacloud, is intended to abstract out cloud differences in an effort to provide a unified interface. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
David Hodgson on the role of mainframes in Web 2.0 computing Aug 31, 2009
David Hodgson, a senior development manager at CAs Mainframe Business unit, has worked with large systems for more than 30 years and has seen the pendulum swing from mainframes to distributed computing and now back to the concept of centralized computing ... Youve seen the pendulum going from centralized computing to distributed computing, and you have lots of those inside your enterprise. (FCW.com)
Green.view: Computing climate change Aug 25, 2009
Small and medium-sized businesses, meanwhile, could save electricity by switching to distributed computing, rather than running their own servers. The delivery of computer services over the internet, from vast warehouses of shared machines, enables firms to hand over the running of their e-mail, customer databases and accounting systems to someone else. (The Economist)
'Demystifying the Cloud,' an Executive Symposium for Information Technology Leaders, September 16, 2009, Los Angeles, CA Aug 14, 2009
com's (Nasdaq: ) $15 billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over 13 years. Contact: Joe Garrow Ph: 310-996-0300 x 206. (PR Newswire)
CMDBf: IT's Next Moonwalk Aug 13, 2009
CIOUpdate columnist Dennis Drogseth of Enterprise Management Associates (CIO Information Network)
Taking The Hard Work Out Of Software Aug 9, 2009
This out-of-the-box system employs the latest in grid software and distributed computing infrastructure and can operate on multiple platforms. It is also open source, so it can easily be customised and further developed. (Science Daily)
Agencies open up to open-source software Jul 19, 2009
The Postal Service is 1,300 Sun Solaris midrange servers to a Hewlett-Packard Linux environment, using Novells SUSE Linux on the mainframe and distributed computing platforms to forge greater interoperability between the two environments. More on this topic. (FCW.com)
USPS goes open-source with tracking system Jul 10, 2009
USPS is using Novells SUSE Linux on the mainframe and distributed computing platforms to forge greater interoperability between the two environments, Byrne said. However, the mainframe story is one of migration and reuse of valuable business logic developed over 15 years, Byrne said. (FCW.com)
Physicists Find Way To Control Individual Bits In Quantum Computers Jul 8, 2009
A new distributed computing program analyzes data to characterize new planetary systems by computing the light reflected from nearby extrasolar. . (Science Daily)
Zimory Adds to Open Source-Powered Cloud Tools Jun 20, 2009
The idea of the "cloud" is all about offering distributed computing resources. Yet simply offering resources is not enough -- there is a real need for management and control, too. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Natural Computing And Synthetic Biology Techniques Advanced For Treating Diseases Jun 19, 2009
The aim of this project, which kicked off in 2006 and is to wind up at the end of 2009, is to advance natural computing and systems biology using a cell-inspired distributed computing model (called P system or membrane computing), as well as to develop synthetic biology by designing new circuits and biomolecular automata. As a branch of science, natural computing has two goals: understand the computational processes taking place in nature (particularly, biology) and develop computational models... (Science Daily)
Microsofts new search engine Bing shows early potential Jun 16, 2009
Its software products include operating systems for servers, personal computers and intelligent devices, server applications for distributed computing environments, information worker productivity applications, business solution applications, high-performance computing applications and software development tools and video games. It also sells the Xbox 360 video game console and games, the Zune digital music and entertainment device, PC games, and peripherals. (Pacific Business News, HI)
Accomplished computational scientist has joined University-Argonne institute May 29, 2009
The work here on world-changing computer projects provides opportunities for me to contribute to the national and international parallel and distributed computing field in ways that I could not do anywhere else. Katz received his B.S., M.S. and Ph. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
PC-linked search for ET turns 10 May 23, 2009
This is the worldwide project called SETI @home, and today the pioneer venture in a highly advanced technology called "distributed computing" celebrates its 10th anniversary, after spawning more than 80 other projects based on the same principle. "Somewhere out there, signals may well be coming in, but we don't know where to point to look for them, and we don't know what the signals might be like," said Dan Werthimer, an astronomer at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory who directs the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Limelight Acquires Mobile-Video Ad Startup May 22, 2009
"The combination of Limelight Networks' distributed computing and delivery platform with Kiptronic's device-targeting and dynamic ad insertion technologies will allow us to provide the world's largest media and entertainment companies a streamlined and scalable solution to this problem,". Limelight chairman and CEO Jeff Lunsford said in announcing the deal. (Multichannel News)
Limelight Networks buys Kiptronic May 22, 2009
The combination of Limelight Networks distributed computing and delivery platform with Kiptronic s device-targeting and dynamic ad insertion technologies will allow us to provide the world s largest media and entertainment companies a streamlined and scalable solution to this problem, said Jeff Lunsford, chairman and chief executive officer, Limelight Networks. Kiptronic s system allows Web content to be delivered to mobile devices without many changes to the platforms that deal with publishing... (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing May 9, 2009
There are varying definitions, but cloud computing is essentially a form of distributed computing that allows users the ability to tap into a vast network of computing resources through the Internet to complete their work ... Previous decades brought us something called grid computing, which was another type of distributed computing that allowed users to tap into computing resources through a network to get their computational jobs done ... Cloud computing, on the other hand, can greatly... (EurekAlert!)
What is Virtualization, and Why Should You Care? May 8, 2009
While virtualization faded from the limelight for a while, it is now one of the hottest trends in the industry again, as organizations aim to increase the utilization, flexibility and cost-effectiveness in a distributed computing environment. VMWare, Citrix, Microsoft, IBM, RedHat and many other vendors offer virtualization solutions. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Missing Planets: Destructive Stellar Tides May 3, 2009
Missing Planets Attest To Destructive Power Of Stars' Tides. Missing Planets Attest To Destructive Power Of Stars' Tides. (Science Daily)
Architecting a Smart Electricity Grid: Leveraging Best Practices from the Internet May 1, 2009
EnergyPulse - Insight Analysis and Commentary on the Global Power Industry. Free Newsletter Sign up today for your free subscription to the EnergyPulse Weekly Update - delivered directly to your e-mail box. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Review of protocols for cloud services - Part 1 May 1, 2009
Call it grid computing, cloud computing or software as a service, distributed computing is on a lot of developers minds recently ... It seems to me that a discussion of the wide range of protocols and architecture in grid/cloud/distributed computing is in order. (Search Webservices)
Kerberos configuration as an authentication system for single sign-on Apr 12, 2009
There are several distributions of it, including a freeware version from MIT as well as a commercially available distribution from the Open Group called OSF DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) Security. Don't miss need-to-know info. (Search Security, MA)
Cloud computing brings cost of protein research down to Earth Apr 11, 2009
"The pricing structure of distributed computing providers such as Amazon Web Services allows laboratories, or even individuals, to have large-scale computational resources at their disposal at very low cost per run.". . (EurekAlert!)
Beware the botnet Apr 7, 2009
In a way, a botnet can also be considered a distributed computing effort similar to the one being carried out by the SETI@home project (setiathome. berkeley. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Technology)
New Architects Of Service-oriented Computing Apr 3, 2009
2, 2008) As distributed computing becomes universal, the programs that make devices work really have to work together. European researchers have gone back to basics to create a development toolkit that. (Science Daily)
Manifesto moment Apr 1, 2009
And now we have a new manifesto for the modern age of distributed computing. The "open computing manifesto" was launched this week with the support of some very large computer companies including Cisco, AT&T, Sun Microsystems and Telefonica as well as over 50 other players in this growing market, all under the leadership of IBM.. (BBC News -- Technology)
No more console? Mar 29, 2009
" Other analysts are not so sure. Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital argued at another conference, GamesBeat, that there would be one more generation, hitting stores by 2012. Joseph Olin of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences told BBC News he viewed the debate as beneficial for gamers. "If anything, competition from OnLive will improve the breed and I think the instantaneous nature of OnLive, or distributed computing, promises something that will challenge hardware companies to figure... (BBC News -- Technology)
Orbiting Pulsars @ Home Mar 27, 2009
The search, part of a distributed computing program called Einstein@Home, could turn up extreme pairs of astrophysical objects that could put general relativity to the most stringent tests yet. Modelled after , which searches for signals from intelligent extraterrestrial civilisations, harnesses the idle time on the computers of some 200,000 volunteers to. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Direct Energy and Exceptional Innovation Partner To Develop Consumer Friendly, Technology-Based Energy Management Programs Mar 26, 2009
Led by software industry professionals with extensive experience in distributed computing based on open standards and architecture, Exceptional Innovation combines development expertise with years of control experience to deliver simple, seamless, life-enhancing solutions. SOURCE Direct Energy. (PR Newswire)
New EINSTEIN@HOME effort launched: home computers to search Arecibo data for new pulsars Mar 25, 2009
Einstein@Home, based at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world's largest public volunteer distributed computing projects. More than 200,000 people have signed up for the project and donated time on their computers to search gravitational wave data for signals from unknown pulsars. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Key elements of a HIPAA compliance checklist Mar 20, 2009
Mackey is an original member of the DCE Request for Technology technical evaluation team and was responsible for the architecture of the Distributed Computing Environment Releases 1. 1 and 1. (Search Security, MA)
Ex-Google, Yahoo Staffers Release Hadoop Distribution Mar 17, 2009
- A startup called Cloudera on Monday publicly released its distribution of the open-source Hadoop distributed computing framework, hoping to sell enterprise users on the system employed by Google, Yahoo and others to process large data sets. Cloudera, which was launched by former Google, Yahoo, Oracle and Facebook employees last year, has been providing its initial customers with support for Hadoop. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Netuitive integrates VMware into monitoring tools Mar 7, 2009
Netuitive's approach appeals to IT shops because most of those tools Netuitive works with were built for distributed computing, not virtual architectures, according to David Williams, research vice president at Gartner. "It's about optimizing your current infrastructure," Williams said. (InfoWorld)
New NVIDIA Notebook GPU Line-Up Features World's Fastest Mobile Notebook GPU Mar 3, 2009
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the impact of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, NVIDIA drivers, CUDA technology and NVIDIA SLI(R) technology on notebook customers, the performance and impact of NVIDIA GPUs in distributed computing applications are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include:... (PR Newswire)
5 Software Project Failure: The Reasons, The Costs Feb 8, 2009
Mangione is also a professor at Seattle University, where he teaches graduate-level courses in Relational Databases, Object Oriented Design, UI Design, Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Advanced Java Programming. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Cal Poly Institute and earned his M.S. in Computer Science from UC Irvine. (CIO Information Network)
Sourceforge's Mirrored Content Gets a Hand Feb 8, 2009
One of the key open source tools used by both CDNetworks and SourceForge is the rsync application that helps to synchronize multiple nodes in a distributed computing environment. "In some countries it is non trivial to have a mirror with many TeraBytes of storage and just to sync that is a challenge," Seirmarco said. (Datamation)
Microgrids: How Electricity Can Follow Tech's Example Feb 7, 2009
Instead of utilizing supercomputers, Google moved over to distributed computing, with hundreds of thousands of small, more easily replaceable servers sharing the load ... The distributed computing revolution quickly moved from the server room to the rest of the computer industry ... From the massive Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program (which uses excess cycles from millions of computers to parse data) to peer-to-peer file sharing (where millions of computers across the world... (Energy Pulse, CO)
