The Cloud TechChannel precipitates what's on the horizon for on-demand Web-based embedded computing resources and how they're transforming the traditional notions of data access and storage through the concept of virtualized network infrastructure. The connectivity enabled by thi... Mores shared infrastructure has the possibility of bringing to fruition long-held ideas such as the “Internet of things” and enhancements to the smart grid, but raises issues surrounding data integrity and security, network transparency, and virtual machines. The Cloud TechChannel keeps an eye on the weather, tracking developments in “Green Computing,” Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), device/location independence, Web operating systems, and other key tenets of Cloud engineering.
Signal processing fuels radar and electronic warfare systems as each application has an unquenchable thirst for more and more bandwidth and performance that is more often than not met by FPGA-based VPX computing systems.
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, today announced that it has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development alliance based on IBM’s POWER microprocessor architecture. Working with the OpenPOWER Foundation, Avnet will help partners and customers innovate across the full hardware and software stack to build customized server, networking and storage hardware solutions best suited to the high-performance Power architecture.
