For most of the last century, our electrical grids stood as an…
For most of the last century, our electrical grids stood as an engineering marvel of the modern age and a…
Electronic Vision
Second Sight Medical Products has developed Argus Two, a sophisticated eye-implant device with an array of 60 electrodes, providing a…
book review “Data Preparation For Data Mining”
Just before Christmas I bought myself yet another data mining book (i have a few dozen). This one somehow slipped…
Data Mining Blog: Neural Market Trends
If you're interested in data mining and the financial market, this blog is definitely for you. In Neural Market Trends,…
Riches for SaaS providers
Many consultancy business are built upon serving the need for comparitive benchmarking of business operations. Ranging from strategy and efficiency,…
Comparing the Cost Continued…
The next step was to select our benchmarks and calculate their costs. We extracted two workloads that are common to…
Grid versus Cloud Computing
From the end user perspective, the short answer to the question "What is the difference between grid computing and cloud…
Web Server as the smallest unit of Cloud Computing
To demystify the concept of cloud computing, I would like to assert that a web server is the smallest unit…
Google and Amazon as Benchmarkers
One of the most interesting aspects of cloud computing is the opportunity for benchmarking. Instead of paying market research firms…
Google and corporate espionage
The release of Google's Chrome and the original EULA that was bound to it has opened an interesting debate about…