As part of the relocation, IFAW upgraded its network backbone by standardizing on the HP Networking 5400 zl switch series, which allows the organization to more efficiently communicate with clients with a faster connection than the previous network configuration. IFAW uses this networking technology along with HP 2510 and HP 2810 switch series to ensure that its offices around the world are connected and can scale as business demands peak.

Oracle today announced the availability of Read more

The mobile client is dependent on an organization having Lync 2010 Server installed. The mobile client must be provisioned by the Lync server administrator first, and that will enable users to download and begin using the various Lync 2010 mobile apps, a Microsoft unified communications team blog explained.

Applicable to a growing set of computationally intensive workloads within the scientific community, Blue Gene/Q is the ideal platform for highly complex projects in a broad range of Read more

Exascale computing has the potential to address a class of highly complex workloads that have been beyond traditional reach, not just due to their sheer size, but because of their inherent uncertainties and unpredictability – areas such as hurricane prediction and climate modeling. Blue Gene/Q represents the next step in this HPC evolution.

HP will use products from its HP Software suite to synchronize Elders’ technology infrastructure with the Information Technology Infrastructure Read more

Launched a year ago as a controller-free gaming device for Xbox, Microsoft sold a world-record 8 million Kinect devices in its first 60 days on the market. This made Kinect the fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history, according to Guinness World Records.

Beginning today, videos will be sprinkled in among the static photos that appear each day on the home page. Sometimes they’ll be event-driven, while others will appear simply because the Bing team falls in love them, Read more

Beginning with Windows 8, NTFS has been enhanced to solely rely on the “flush” command in lieu of “forced unit access” (akawrite-through) for all operations that require write ordering to ensure file system metadata integrity. Cost-effective industry standard SATA drives can, therefore, be more reliably utilized.

As technology dramatically changes our society, educators must master the skills and behaviors of professionals in the digital age. Programs like these are essential Read more