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Augmented Reality Wearables: Can We Say Goodbye to Headsets?

An augmented reality contact lens may be here sooner than you think.

Growing Support for Zero Knowledge Proofs in Web3

The cryptography practice of zero knowledge proofs (ZKP) -- proving and validating information without revealing the data behind the information -- is the key to securing and growing Web3 and the metaverse, a recent survey found.

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New Intel GPUs Aimed at Blockchain Mining Market

Last week Intel announced that it is developing new technologies for the blockchain ecosystem.

AWS Cloud Unveils Blockchain Templates

Blockchain is a complicated, hard-to-define technology with a lot of potential use cases, which are now easier to experiment with on the Amazon Web Services cloud.

Flash Storage Arrays and Decreased Cost To Grow Global Datacenter Market

The growing adoption of all-flash storage arrays, a decline in infrastructure prices, and the increasing adoption of unified storage architectures will help the overall datacenter market to grow over the next four years, a new report argues.

AMD Challenges Intel Datacenter Dominance

Declaring a "new era in the datacenter," AMD introduced a new server processor family last week that offers the first real challenge in years to the market dominance of Intel's Xeon processors.

IBM Will Bring Quantum Computing to the Enterprise

Envisioning an entirely new enterprise computing paradigm, IBM this week said it's furthering its efforts to build commercially viable quantum computers, promising new systems to come over the next several years.



ALM Firm Lists Predictions for Enterprise Software Delivery in 2017

Security, digital transformations and continuous delivery figure prominently.

Nimble Storage Offers All-Flash Entry Point

Enterprises looking for an entry point into all-flash storage are the target of a new offering from Nimble Storage, which specializes in predictive flash.

Enterprise Technology Report Shows Disruptive Shift

Enterprise systems in 2016 are starting to look a lot different than enterprise systems of yesteryear, according to a new report about the "enterprise technologies to watch in 2016" from the Enterprise Irregulars.

More Enterprise Use of Container Technology Predicted

New vendor-sponsored surveys point to even more enterprise use of container technology in the near future.

Growth Seen in Converged Infrastructure Platforms

Research company IDC said converged infrastructure platforms -- typically combining compute, storage and virtualization technologies -- are seeing a growth spurt.

Software-Defined Networking Set To Explode

Latest forecast sees 89 percent compound growth leading to $8 billion market by 2018.

Big Data Cloud Migration Quickens

Vendors scramble to help enterprises move their Big Data analytics to the cloud in an exploding market.

The Upsides and the Downsides of Cloud-Based Storage

Looking to make a move? Be sure to evaluate all the pros and the cons of cloud storage providers.

Storage Speeds and Feeds Continue To Improve

The market is now seeing the results of innovations in storage technology.

Why Is RAID Dying a Slow Death?

While the technology is on the decline, here's why RAID is still sticking around as it slowly marches towards its ultimate demise.

The Staggering Scope of Big Data

The amount of data we're all generating at any given time is astronomical. Jump on the big-data train or risk getting left behind.

The Year That Self-Service Won

The cloud made self-service BI accessible. What's ahead for IT and business users?

2013 Storage Trends

Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, takes a look back at the major events and trends in storage this year and asks what this means for 2013.