Science and Technology Innovation Journal

Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony, if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites cited. As ever we encourage software engineers, developers, IT operations managers, and new/growing companies in every case to "suck it and see" by downloading or otherwise sampling the offering in question for themselves. (Omissions to this Top 150 list sh... (more)

Salesforce Invests In Electronic Medical Record App Developer – Software – IT Channel News by CRN

Salesforce.com has acquired a stake in Practice Fusion, a developer of free, Web-based physician applications, the two companies said Thursday. The size of the investment wasn’t disclosed.Later this year Practice Fusion is expected to launch a new patient health record application that’s based on Salesforce’s Force.com cloud computing platform. “With this investment from Salesforce.com, Practice Fusion is now backed by the enterprise cloud computing leader,” said Practice Fusion CEO Ryan Howard, in a statement. “The technology, capital and leadership from this partnership will e... (more)

What Constitutes Hard Drive Failure and Data Loss

The damage may occur due to logical failure because of file system corruption, operating system malfunction, virus infection, hard drive formatting and other such issues. All these circumstances, cause serious data loss and require data recovery through appropriate tools, to be sorted out. Hard drive manufacturers would provide you something known as a MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) number on the instruction manual or the box of hard drive. They get this figure by doing thorough test and then find out that how much damage actually the drive undergoes. Then figure out that how l... (more)

How to Maintain Your Network Operable with Network Monitor

Network equipment failures can cause grave consequences, such as material and data looses, bad relations with your customers, etc. System administrators should detect all the failures that can occur on all network devices (local computers, servers, switches, network printers and others) in time and recover them as fast as possible. That is why the network monitoring is vital in modern IT infrastructure. With the program 10-Strike Network Monitor, an administrator can solve this problem effortlessly. The program is to be installed on the administrator computer only and does not r... (more)

Artificial Intelligence - It Isn't Science Fiction Anymore

Computer scientists have been pursuing artificial intelligence, using computers to simulate human thinking, for sometime and with little success. Recently, however, great progress has been made to create devices that can listen, speak, see, reason and learn. According to scientists the result is not only that artificial intelligence will transform the way humans and machines communicate and work together, but also that it will eliminate millions of jobs, create many others and change the nature of work and daily routines. Steve Lohr and John Markoff wrote a recent article in th... (more)