Archives : April 2011

Are spaghetti the cheapest dish?

published on 2011/04/28 by Thierry Charvet

Liquidy fragmentation on financial markets and best practices to reduce costs pushed to the creation of spaghetti networks. Time comes to rethink that strategy to achieve better TCO and increased quality of service....

Are spaghetti the cheapest dish?

When pictures tell a thousand words

published on 2011/04/26 by Stewart Baines

The key with visualizing large data sets is to condense the information into easily digestible figures. The Hive Group uses tree diagrams made of interconnecting blocks, enabling business users to interpret information easily across a variety of sectors. ...

When pictures tell a thousand words

A brain for the Internet?

published on 2011/04/19 by Stewart Baines

Could a software project at Stanford University change the way that the Internet works, for the better? OpenFlow, a project developed in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, could enable application software to tell the routers and switches underpinning the Internet what to do....

A brain for the Internet?

Can data mining help us make better medical decisions?

published on 2011/04/18 by Anthony Plewes

How can data to make hospitals more accountable? As health infrastructures on both sides of the Atlantic undergo extensive modernization, technology companies are exploring ways to make it easier for hospitals to mine information about their operations. The idea is not only that improved clinical data can lead to better decisions at the sharp end of healthcare, but also that it can be used to craft better policy decisions. ...

Can data mining help us make better medical decisions?

A quantum step closer

published on 2011/04/14 by Stewart Baines

How close are we to a useful quantum computer? We may be a step further, following the production of a quantum chip by the University of California, Santa Barbara. The chip, which researchers showed off at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, contains four qubits - the quantum equivalent of the conventional binary bits found in silicon chips....

A quantum step closer