IDG News Service – A supercomputer has achieved an artificial intelligence milestone by passing the Turing Test, according to the University of Reading in the U.K. At an event on Saturday at the Royal Society in London, a conversation program running on a computer called Eugene Goostman was able to convince more than a third …
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Big Data is a big deal for IBM, and Wednesday Big Blue announced new Power Systems servers to handle the load. The new products are built on an open server platform, based on the Power8 processor. The company’s new machines are the culmination of a $2.4 billion investment, more than 3 years of development and the exploitation …
No downtime for VM migration, faster reboot are new capabilities Unix may have been shouldered aside by Windows as the main operating system in data centres, but a number of manufacturers remain loyal to the versions of it still in their portfolio. Hewlet Packard are one such manufacturer. The outline their new products on the …
Is one of your new year’s resolutions to find out more about how the Cloud can benefit your business? Maybe you’ve seen lots of article about it and are a bit dubious about it being the latest over-hyped and gone-tomorrow technology? Either way, you owe it to yourself to find out a little bit more …
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Microsoft recently opened a new cybercrime centre on their Richmond campus. This world-class laboratory hosts a team of seasoned cybercrime investigators who are trying to stay one step ahead of the world’s worst Internet criminals. This team have been involved in some notable successes in the past 12 months including helping to stop the Citadel …
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In October the University of Southampton switched on the most powerful University-based supercomputer in England and the third largest academic facility in the UK. Named Iridis4 the machine is designed to meet the demand for the use of supercomputing power for research purposes and it will allow more academics to work on a greater number …
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After adding more wholesale data centre space than any other company in 2012, Microsoft recently increased its investment in data centres across the globe to $15 billion, making it one of the major players. This is to support the growth in its Xbox Live gaming service and the switch of emphasis to its cloud platform …
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You may have read some years ago about a project that was able to utilise the spare computing power on your desktop or laptop computer to search for life amongst the stars. Well, with the number of number mobiles devices in the world now surpassing traditional PCs the emphasis has switched to being able to …
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Why the world’s smallest movie is good news for big data You wouldn’t think that IBM’s announcement that is had made the world’s smallest movie using atoms would have much impact on the business world – but you couldn’t be more wrong! Using an IBM-invented scanning tunnelling microscope the individual atoms were moved to create …
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You can tell when a technology is becoming increasingly important – when old adversaries suddenly start working together to exploit the opportunity. The old proverb “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” certainly came to mind when Oracle recently announced agreements with long-time protagonists Microsoft and Salesforce.com. Before you think the world has stopped turning, or …
