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High Performance Computing: Companies use Big Computers to Process Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Supercomputers — computers with pricetags of more than $500,000 — are being deployed at a healthy pace. Businesses are investing in these fast computers in an effort to spark innovation. A recent report by IDC in high performance computing (HPC)

Challenging Network Bandwidth: Data Center IP Traffic to Triple by 2017

By Dick Weisinger

Network traffic in data centers continues to rise dramatically. A recent Cisco report expects that annual global data center IP traffic will reach 7.7 zettabytes by the end of 2017, nearly triple the level of IP data traffic seen in

Big Data at IBM: Using Watson as an Analytic Tool

By Dick Weisinger

The number of companies actively applying Big Data analytics to problems in business, science and society is growing rapidly. One company though, IBM, has been unique in the level of sophistication that they’ve been able to apply Big Data techniques

Cloud Computing: Off-the-Chart Growth in the Cloud Equate to Massive Organizational Changes Ahead

By Dick Weisinger

“Within 2 to 3 years, explosive global growth in Cloud development, adoption, and use will eclipse any growth numbers and rates previously seen or predicted,” said Bruce Guptill, SVP and Head of Research at Saugatuck Technology. Rapid growth in the

Next Generation Databases: Real-Time Scale-Out Relational Processing

By Dick Weisinger

As databases grow, the most common way to stay pace with more data, more transactions, and more load is to scale-up the database hardware. Scaling up involves adding more CPU power, more memory and more and faster disks. But as