k-Space Associates Inc of Dexter, MI, USA (which supplies instrumentation and software for surface science and thin-film technology applications) says that it is supplying thin-film metrology tools to the photovoltaic industry in an effort ...
Tags: Thin-Film Metrology Tools, Solar Panel Production, Electrical
Today, for the most part, utilities are recording and storing data from Smart Meters at levels of resolution that are needed for billing, typically at 15 minute, half-hour or hourly intervals. Higher resolution data can provide much more ...
Tags: Instruments, Meters, Smart Meters
Oracle has kicked off its Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference in San Francisco by unveiling in-memory processing for its Oracle Database 12c product, as well as new hardware to run it on, and a new cloud-based database backup solution. ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
IDG News Service-Amazon Web Services has announced Glacier,a low-cost storage service that has been customized for data archiving and backup,the company said on Monday. Areas that are a good fit for Glacier include media ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, low-cost, storage service, data archiving and backup
The World Wide Web Consortium has finalized its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. Now that Web Storage is an official specification, browser ...
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Siemens' Smart Grid division has announced a global strategic cooperation in big data with Teradata, through which it will further optimise its solutions' portfolio to provide energy utilities with more transparency on the status and ...
Three UK, the mobile phone network, is using "big data" at the heart of its business to work out where to locate mobile phone masts and to help personalise the "experience" of its subscribers. Speaking at Computing's Big Data Summit in ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
A security researcher has found a loophole in how the HTML5 Web Storage standard is implemented in the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Apple Safari browsers that could allow malicious websites to fill visitors' hard disk drives with ...
Tags: loophole, HTML5 Web Storage, security
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has been fined £150,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for breaching the Data Protection Act. Three DVDs containing confidential information about two children went missing during ...
Tags: Data Protection Act, Nursing and Midwifery Council, ICO
Cloud computing may be becoming a more widely accepted means of storing data, but there are still those who are very wary about having their information reside on servers operated by someone else. Speaking at Dell Tech World in Amsterdam, ...
Tags: Cloud computing, storing data, Dell
Researchers have created a way to store data in the form of DNA, which can last for tens of thousands of years. The encoding method makes it possible to store at least 100 million hours of high-definition video in about a cup of DNA, the ...
Tags: data storage, high-definition video, DNA
According to a team of researchers, there is a way to store digital data in the form of DNA, which could potentially last for tens of thousands of years. The encoding method makes it possible to store at least 100 million hours of ...
Tags: DNA, digital data, high-definition video
IDG News Service - Java caching software provider Terracotta and database provider Tokutek have each released new offerings designed to entice organizations to try new ways of storing data, from running in-memory databases to using solid ...
Tags: Java caching software, Terracotta, Tokutek, database, data storing
Rackspace was one of the first players in the cloud arena. The company recognized early that enterprises wanted faster, simpler ways to spin up and spin down servers. If the bosses are going to be fickle and impulsive, there will always be ...
Tags: Rackspace, cloud arena, IT, IaaS
Gathering numbers of NHS trusts are investing in the Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), making it one of the more successful examples of NHS IT. Increasing storage costs could drive the use of the cloud. PACS is a ...
Tags: NHS, NHS IT, Picture Archiving and Communications System