by colinc | Aug 21, 2012 | Financial, High Performance Computing, Industries
We’ve all met that person in business who feels that IT isn’t that important. A couple of weeks ago, we saw how a failure in IT could cost millions of dollars and bring an entire company to its knees. In the wake of the near-collapse of Knight Capital...
by colinc | Aug 8, 2012 | Big Data
With the rise of big data we continue to see the growing importance of Hadoop as one of the premier big data infrastructures. Not only is it a powerful framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing and data storage, but it’s also a very affordable...
by colinc | Aug 6, 2012 | Tech & Innovation
Seventeen-year-old Brittany Wenger has won the 2nd Annual Google Science Fair for her work in developing an application to help doctors diagnose breast cancer! The Google Science Fair is a science talent competition for kids ages 13 to 18, held this month in Palo...