“Edge computing also means less data travels long distances, lowering the load on main servers and networks,” says Neel Somani. “This can reduce wait times for users watching live events, playing games, or making financial trades where every second counts.”

The World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) recognizes ten basic cloud types. Ranging from cirrus to nimbostratus to our favorite here in gray and rainy Oregon, plain ol' stratus, these clouds come in quite a few varieties. So do the clouds we use in ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), we now think of our “desktop” as the computing ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Healthcare providers and processors of protected health information (PHI) have historically been concerned about storing or processing sensitive data in the cloud. Instead, they’ve opted to host data on on-site servers, handling storage, maintenance and ...

Unlike other cooling methods, thermal immersion cooling submerges full servers or server components in a thermally conductive liquid that transfers heat from a coolant to a water circuit. Ideally, this coolant has low electrical conductivity so that it will not interfere with server operations.