Today’s IT environments generate continuous streams of data from systems for everything from financial markets, government border security, transportation management to network performance, business process execution and tracking RFID tagged assets. The challenge now is to maximize the value of this ever growing data flow across an entire organization. The Oracle Complex Event Processing product [...]

by Douglas A. McIntyre, 24/7 WallSt.
Micro-blogging platform Twitter has 32 million users, which is an increase from about 2 million a year ago, according to research mentioned in The Wall Street Journal. Some Internet measurement services show that figure increasing 50% to 100% month-over-month. While it is not clear that Twitter will become as large [...]

Does parallel processing require new languages?
Government Computer News
Now that almost all new servers and computers are running processors with multiple cores, the software-design community is trying to figure out the best way of making use of this new architecture. Unfortunately, the community is divided about what the best way would to split their programs across [...]

The Internet is incomplete, says its co-designer, Vinton Cerf
Cerf cites security and mobile as pressing needs
by Patrick Thibodeau, CompterWorld
The co-designer of the Internet’s basic architecture, Vinton Cerf, said the Internet “still lacks many of the features that it needs,” particularly in security, during a blunt talk to a tech industry crowd here. ….
One of the [...]

by Ian Monroe, Charles Berretand Michael Scott Leonard, Medill Reports
Intrepid is an IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer: a huge, ultra-powerful machine used by scientists and researchers to model complex systems with a degree of precision never before achieved. Built over five years, at a cost of $77 million, Intrepid exemplifies the state of the art in [...]

by David Luckham
Suppose a quantum leap in commercially available CEP technology were to happen. What would it consist of?  I would guess that one of the new components would be something that we haven’t seen offered up till now,  tools to help users make greater use of abstraction than they do at present.
Interestingly, if you [...]

A Past Flight May Offer Clues to Air France 447
by Mark Thompson / Washington
We’ll never know what it was like to be aboard Air France Flight 447 as it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on May 31, apparently killing all 228 aboard. For now, the closest we may get is listening to the passengers on [...]