Moving Security from Cost Center to Brand Differentiator

This is the age of hacktivists and terrorists, and –ists of every malicious ilk, yet many businesses continue to rate IT security on par with housekeeping — a necessary but costly activity beneath C-level executives’ notice. But, given recent, constant and costly security breaches of the past 18 months or so, it is imperative to…

Air Force to Build a $2M Supercomputer Using PlayStations

The U.S. Air Force is in the process of building a 500 teraFLOPS supercomputer that will only cost $2 million. Impossible, you say? Not when you build it with PlayStation 3 (PS3)consoles. The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., have already built a cluster with 336 SonyPS3s and are beefing that up by another…