Data centres are largely dependent on the national grid for their power. But, as the uncertainty of the energy crisis continues to loom, there’s a question mark over the ability of servers to stay online for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, blip-free. To date, a solution has been found in the fuel …
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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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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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A new study by IDC has revealed some interesting facts about what it terms the “digital universe”. This is defined as a measure of all digital data created, replicated and consumed in a single year. Starting with data collected in 2005 and extending it to 2020, IDC believe that: From 2005 to 2020 the digital …
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Research work by a team at the California Institute of technology (Caltech) has brought about the possibility of an intriguing future with self-healing chips. These are not some new potato-based snack but computer components with the ability to heal themselves, making even more reliable hardware available in the very near future. By building tiny amplifiers …
