Google Launches Nearline Storage Service, Boasting Fast Data Access

The new service combines the cost efficiency of cold storage with the speed of online data access, Google claims. Read more »

LinkedIn’s Nurse Provides 24/7 System Health

LinkedIn relies on an auto-remediation tool called Nurse to ensure the health of its systems that support 364 million users. Read more »

Intel Kicks Off Broad Effort to Grow Enterprise Cloud

The initiative includes a partnership with Rackspace to create an innovation center where developers can bring enterprise features to OpenStack. Read more »

Google Launches Click-to-Deploy Video Streaming With Wowza

The full suite of Wowza Media Systems’ Streaming Engine functionality is now available to Google Compute Engine users. Read more »

Yahoo Revenue Stable, But Q1 Profit Chilled by Q2 Loss

A major part of Yahoo's expense issues involve traffic acquisition costs, which soared to $200 million -- up from $44 million in Q2 2014. Read more »

Foundation Launches to Unify Open-Source Cloud Efforts

Google's Kubernetes joins a host of vendors and projects as part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a new Linux Foundation-backed effort. Read more »

Microsoft, GE Ink 300,000-Seat Office 365 Contract

General Electric will rely on Microsoft's globe-spanning cloud to bring productivity and collaboration services to its massive workforce. Read more »

Microsoft Reportedly Buys Cloud Security Firm Adallom for $320 Million

The company snaps up the cloud security and risk management specialist in a deal that ranks as its biggest Israeli acquisition, according to reports. Read more »

Vector Field Visualization of Advective-Diffusive Flows

We propose a framework for unified visualization of advective and diffusive concentration fluxes, which play a key role in many phenomena like, e.g. Marangoni convection and microscopic mixing. The main idea is... Read more »

Uncovering Representative Groups in Multidimensional Projections

Multidimensional projection-based visualization methods typically rely on clustering and attribute selection mechanisms to enable visual analysis of multidimensional data. Clustering is often employed to group similar instances according to their distance in... Read more »