The Cloud

Edinburgh, Scotland — Tiny, laser-activated magnets could enable cloud computing systems to process data up to 100 times faster than current technologies, a study suggests. Chemists have studied a new magnetic material that could boost the storage capacity and processing speed of hard drives used in cloud-based servers. This could enable people using cloud data […]

Karlsruhe, Germany — Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are, so to say, a computer manufacturer’s “Lego bricks”: electronic components that can be employed in a more flexible way than other computer chips. Even large data centres that are dedicated to cloud services, such as those provided by some big technology companies, often resort to FPGAs. To […]

Yorktown Heights, NY — IBM has announced a significant milestone in the development of silicon photonics technology, which, according to the Company, enables silicon chips to use pulses of light instead of electrical signals over wires to move data at rapid speeds and longer distances in future computing systems.

Tucson, AZ — Scientists and engineers in all disciplines can now store, share and analyze data through Jetstream, the first all-science cyber-computing platform, a $6.5 million project funded by the National Science Foundation.

Singapore — As individual computer users increasingly access the Internet from different smartphones, tablets and laptops, many are choosing to use online cloud services to store and synchronize their digital content.

Blacksburg, VA – With the promise of personalized and customized medicine, one extremely important tool for its success is the knowledge of a person’s unique genetic profile.

Arlington, VA – The University of Chicago has launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome infrastructure normally needed to download and store massive amounts of data.

La Jolla, CA – Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, and Google have developed a novel approach that allows the massive infrastructure powering cloud computing as much as 15 to 20 percent more efficiently.

La Jolla, CA –  Salk researchers have reported a how-to secret for biologists: code for Amazon Cloud that significantly reduces the time necessary to process data-intensive microscopic images.

Rolling Meadows, IL – A joint survey from  Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA foumd that government regulations, exit strategies and international data privacy dominate the Top 10 areas where confidence in the cloud is lowest.  

Rolling Meadows, IL – A joint survey from  Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA foumd that government regulations, exit strategies and international data privacy dominate the Top 10 areas where confidence in the cloud is lowest.

Buffalo, NY – A new educational computing platform was developed by the University at Buffalo (UB), which helps its students understand parts of evolutionary biology on an entirely new level. The university believes that high-school and middle-school students will also benefit from such tool.