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Server Virtualization: Competing Newer Technologies Challenge the Once Hot Market Segment

By Dick Weisinger

This year the server virtualization market is expected to reach $5.6 billion, according to Gartner.  Despite these large number of dollars, the Gartner report finds that the bulk of the money is being generated from maintenance of existing licenses, not…

IT Spending: Weak Global Economy and Strong Dollar Push IT Spending into Negative Territory

By Dick Weisinger

Global IT spending is huge.  In 2015 $3.5 trillion was spent.  At the end of 2015 Gartner was predicting very modest increased growth in spending of .5 percent, but after the end of the first quarter in 2016, Gartner has…

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…

Computer Memory: Researchers Work to Develop Fast, Dense, Nonvolatile MRAM

By Dick Weisinger

The goal of memory chip makers is to be able to fabricate a memory product that is nonvolatile, fast, dense, and cheap.  Current SRAM memory is fast.  Flash memory is dense.  And read-only memory (ROM) is cheap.  But creating memory…