IBM's Research scientists have long spent time working on mathematical proofs. The latest proof that they have is that quantum computing will be faster than classical architectures. In classical computing,…
Quantum Computers are faster, IBM proves
RIP: Sir Charles Kuen Kao – Fiber Optic Pioneer
This week marks the death of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, one of modern networking's pioneers. He died on Sunday 23 September 2018, aged 84. Born in Shanghai in 1933, Charles…
West African Internet Outage
Oracle's Dyn service have a research lab, who analyse information from the Internet. In the blog entry below, they look at the recent loss of connectivity on the ACE (Africa…
Cloudflare adds Secure DNS service on 1.1.1.1
Cloudflare has expanded the range of secure DNS services available. As well as Cisco's OpenDNS, Google's DNS service, Oracle's Dyn, and the recent Quad 9 service, Cloudflare now adds 1.1.1.1…
Proof: ADSL does operate on wet string
Given the pervasiveness of the Internet, it's not surprising that there are people out there trying different things. Recently we brought you the intuitive NetValve speed throttling appliance. Now courtesy…
Frost and Sullivan place VeloCloud first by SD-WAN Global Market share
VeloCloud, after the recent announcement that VMware would buy them, has also been given another accolade. This time analysts Frost and Sullivan have announced that VeloCloud is in first place…
A change to copper in ‘97 still helps chips scale down
According to IBM Research's blog, a change they made 20 years ago is still helping us today. (One big wire change in '97 still helping chips achieve tiny scale). 20 years…
All 500 top supercomputers run Linux
The Top500 list regularly polls the organisations that run supercomputers creating a list of largest, fastest, most efficient and so on. The 50th release of the Top500 list was released yesterday.…