CERN puts particle physics into the cloud

Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover – Doubts that public cloud services are able to handle just about any workloads can be laid to rest with the news that CERN breaks out into the cloud when it needs more power to boost its own IT systems. Tim Bell,...

Extending 4.5G to unlicensed spectrum

Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover – A shortage of licensed spectrum has been responsible for the slow roll-out of enterprise wireless communications in many instances. “Wireless networking is a limited resource, and it’s not always...

Huawei brings SDN into the cloud

Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover – The increasing “cloudification” of the IT environment continues with Huawei’s introduction today of an all-cloud network architecture, plus cloud-based SDN-WAN. The All-Cloud Network for enterprise...
Hubble discovers a runaway star

Hubble discovers a runaway star

As British royal families fought the War of the Roses for control of England’s throne in the 1400s, a grouping of stars in the Orion Nebula was waging its own contentious skirmish. The stars were battling each other in a gravitational tussle, which ended with...

Intel demos AI on its Nervana platform

There is no denying that the era of artificial intelligence (AI) is upon us, and Intel’s leaders agree that AI is the next big wave in computing. In fact, AI is the fastest growing workload in the data centre, growing at 2-times the overall computing market. By...

Degraded land a source of power

Degraded land can be used to create renewable energy solutions for communities. This is according to a feasibility study by Promethium Carbon for a community-based renewable energy project, that was funded by the Prosperity Fund under the British High Commission....