7 Interesting Parallels Between the Invention of Tiny Satellites and Cloud Computing

 

CubeSats are revolutionizing space exploration because they are small, modular, and inexpensive to build and launch. On an episode of embedded.fm, Professor Jordi Puig-Suari gives a fascinating interview on the invention of the CubeSat. 195: A BUNCH OF SPUTNIKS.

What struck in the interview is how the process of how the CubeSat was invented parallels how the cloud developed. They followed a very similar path driven by many of the same forces and ideas. 

Just what is a CubeSat? It's a "type of miniaturized satellite for space research that is made up of multiples of 10×10×10 cm cubic units. CubeSats have a mass of no more than 1.33 kilograms per unit, and often use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components for their electronics and structure."

Parallel #1:  University as Startup Incubator

Microsoft’s cloud revenue grows, while IBM’s fades

This is a tale of two cloud players, both old-guard IT firms with vested interests in on-premises software sales. One is making a very successful transition to the cloud era, while the other is failing badly. And it’s a familiar story. Microsoft is kicking butt, and IBM is getting its butt kicked.In its most recent quarter, Microsoft announced revenues of $23.3 billion, $7.43 billion of that comes from what it calls “the Intelligent Cloud,” including Azure, a 97 percent year-over-year increase. There was another $8.45 billion from the Productivity and Business Process business, which includes Office and Office 365. The company did not separate out the installed software sales from the on-demand version, but it did say that for the first time, Office 365 is outselling the on-premises version.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft’s cloud revenue grows, while IBM’s fades

This is a tale of two cloud players, both old-guard IT firms with vested interests in on-premises software sales. One is making a very successful transition to the cloud era, while the other is failing badly. And it’s a familiar story. Microsoft is kicking butt, and IBM is getting its butt kicked.In its most recent quarter, Microsoft announced revenues of $23.3 billion, $7.43 billion of that comes from what it calls “the Intelligent Cloud,” including Azure, a 97 percent year-over-year increase. There was another $8.45 billion from the Productivity and Business Process business, which includes Office and Office 365. The company did not separate out the installed software sales from the on-demand version, but it did say that for the first time, Office 365 is outselling the on-premises version.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Pursue Meaning

A recent article in The Washington Post identified a rising “sea of despair” among the white working class and a surge in suicides from 1999 to 2015, when a record high of 600,000 Americans took their own lives. In a country as free and as prosperous as the United States of America, where the pursuit of happiness is enshrined as an unalienable right in the Declaration of Independence, why do so many of its citizens seem so increasingly, desperately unhappy? —Acculturated

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Texas Advanced Supercomputing Center Taps Latest HPC Tech

Building on the successes of the Stampede1 supercomputer, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has rolled out its next-generation HPC system, Stampede2. Over the course of 2017, Stampede2 will undergo further optimization phases with the support of a $30 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). With the latest Xeon and Skylake processors, and enhanced networking provided by the Omni-Path architecture, the new flagship system is expected to deliver approximately 18 petaflops, nearly doubling Stampede1’s performance.

Stampede2 continues Stampede1’s mission: enabling thousands of scientists and researchers across the United States to deliver breakthrough scientific discoveries in science, engineering, artificial …

Texas Advanced Supercomputing Center Taps Latest HPC Tech was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

61% off Anker Keyboard Case for iPad Air 2 with 6-Month Battery – Deal Alert

Enjoy more comfortable, efficient typing on your iPad and keep it protected as well with this smart folio keyboard case. Opening or closing the cover triggers your iPad's sleep or wake modes, and the keyboard connects automatically when needed via Bluetooth. With the one of the highest capacity battery of any iPad keyboard case, it lasts half a year between charges. The typical list price of $69.99 has been reduced 61% to just $27. See this deal on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Providers Edge to Edge VPLS Configuration on Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers

Today I am going to talk about the VPLS configuration on Cisco ASR 9000 series routers. Before we will start with the configuration part, lets talk about the basics of the VPLS.

VPLS stands for Virtual Private LAN Service and enables geographically separated local-area network (LAN) segments to be interconnected as a single bridged domain over an MPLS network. So with the help of VPLS customer can extend the Layer 2 traffic across the globe on MPLS enabled service provider network. 

If customer wants to share the L3 information with the service provider to route it from their networks towards the remote site, then we can use routing at the edges of the PE routers and MPLS in the core while if customer don't want to share the L3 information with the service provider they always go with the VPLS type of services where we have L2 protocols like Frame-Relay, Ethernet, ATM services at the edges of the PE routers and MPLS on the core. 

This is the basic difference between the MPLS and VPLS technologies. Some times you saw like EoMPLS ( Ethernet over MPLS) which is another VPLS technology as Layer 2 ethernet information shared over Continue reading

Where is IoT headed?

A recent survey of IEEE engineers reveals some interesting insights into the Internet of Things (IoT)—both challenges and expectations. Commissioned by Northeastern University Silicon Valley, the survey asked the engineers to answer nine questions about IoT development and deployment. Some of the answers might surprise you.While still in its infancy, the IoT is poised to change our lives in very personal and meaningful ways. The visionaries are already asking if robots will someday replace soldiers, if guns will be traded for cyber-bots, and if artificial intelligence (AI) will change the way we live our daily lives.The audience for the survey was a group of 500 IEEE members—all in fields associated with IoT or working in IoT itself. Their areas of expertise varied from manufacturing (nearly 40% of the participants) to project management (only .19%).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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