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Why Cloud Computing Will Never Be Free
The competition among cloud providers may drive prices downward, but at what cost?
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Enhanced Debugging With Traces
An essential technique used in emulator development is a useful addition to any programmer's toolbox.
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A View of Cloud Computing
Clearing the clouds away from the true potential and obstacles posed by this computing capability.
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CTO Roundtable: Malware Defense
The battle is bigger than most of us realize.
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Cooling the Data Center
What can be done to make cooling systems in data centers more energy efficient?
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Global IT Management: Structuring For Scale, Responsiveness, and Innovation
To succeed on a global scale, businesses should focus on a trio of key elements.
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GFS: Evolution on Fast-Forward
Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan discuss the origin and evolution of the Google File System.
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Software Model Checking Takes Off
A translator framework enables the use of model checking in complex avionics systems and other industrial settings.
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Managing Contention For Shared Resources on Multicore Processors
Contention for caches, memory controllers, and interconnects can be eased by contention-aware scheduling algorithms.
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Power-Efficient Software
Power-manageable hardware can help save energy, but what can software developers do to address the problem?
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Triple-Parity RAID and Beyond
As hard-drive capacities continue to outpace their throughput, the time has come for a new level of RAID.
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Other People's Data
Companies have access to more types of external data than ever before. How can they integrate it most effectively?
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Data in Flight
How streaming SQL technology can help solve the Web 2.0 data crunch.
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Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems
How do we develop software to make the most of the promise that asymmetric multicore systems use a lot less energy?
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What DNS Is Not
DNS is many things to many people — perhaps too many things to too many people.
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You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance
Long considered an afterthought, software maintenance is easiest and most effective when built into a system from the ground up.
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Four Billion Little Brothers?: Privacy, Mobile Phones, and Ubiquitous Data Collection
Participatory sensing technologies could improve our lives and our communities, but at what cost to our privacy?
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Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk
As the sophistication of wiretapping technology grows, so too do the risks it poses to our privacy and security.
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Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors
GPU acceleration and other computer performance increases will offer critical benefits to biomedical science.
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