IBM and Cisco are working together on the Internet of Things. Their latest collaboration is on the use of Edge Analytics. (IBM's announcement, on partnering with Cisco, and Cisco's covering…
Quintillion acquires Arctic Fibre
Quintillion has acquired Arctic Fibre, the Toronto, Canada based company, intending to provide a polar routed fibre between Europe and Japan. On Quintillion's webpage (Arctic Fibre Acquired by Quintillion Networks),…
Shutdown or startup ESXi Virtual Machines from the Host Command Line
Sometimes you need to be able to shutdown or startup virtual machines when all you have is a command-line prompt on the server itself. So how do we achieve this…
Arctic Fibre partners with Quintillion for Alaskan segment
https://alaska-native-news.com/arctic-fibre-and-quintillion-join-forces-to-bring-high-speed-internet-access-to-northern-alaska-and-bering-sea-7068
RIP: John McCarthy, founding father of artificial intelligence
Computing is losing a generation of legends. Following the recent deaths of Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie, today I learnt of the death of John McCarthy, founding father of artificial…
RIP: Steve Jobs, Apple founder
Just over a month ago, I asked Has Jobs really left the core of apple? Today, sadly, it is certain that he has. In the news, pictures show the Apple…
A brief history of the IBM PC, thirty years on.
30 years ago today, a new office automation device was officially launched by IBM at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. August 12, 1981, marked the launch of the…
Riverbed goes shopping for godly web performance
Riverbed has been shopping again. This time, it's looking to purchase Zeus Technology and Aptimize. Both of these are privately owned companies, with Zeus being based in Cambridge in the…