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Yearly Archives: 2016

MapD and GPUs: Fast Data: Speeding up Compute-Bound Database Queries

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data sets are only possible if there is some Big Processing available to handle the enormous volumes.  While the amount of data being captured is rising exponentially hardware and software engineers are rushing to develop software algorithms and processing…

Super Computing: New Chips Simulate the Architecture of Human Brains

By Dick Weisinger

A new type of computer chip architecture called neuromorphic computing is beginning to be used that is inspired by the way the human brain works. Dharmendra Modha, IBM chief scientist for brain-inspired computing, said that “the brain has a very…

SaaS and Cloud Computing: Data Loss by User Mistakes Far Outnumber Loss By Hacking

By Dick Weisinger

80 percent of businesses report that they’ve experienced some level of data loss at some point.  It may not be a surprise, but the leading cause of data loss from SaaS applications is user error.  A survey by Spanning, an…

Operating Systems: Rust Redox – An Next-Generation Attempt to Plug Linux OS Gaps

By Dick Weisinger

Rust is a language developed by Mozilla to help developers be more productive in writing all sorts of software.  Even the software for operating systems which normally tends to be written in languages like C or assembly for optimized performance.…

Security: Extortion by Ransomware Cases Expected to Increase

By Dick Weisinger

Ransomware.  It’s a new type of malware/cyber attack that has recently been in the news and which is causing serious damage to some organizations.  While encryption is typically used defensively to hide and secure information, ransomware offensively applies encryption to data stored on a computer, making it unreadable…