Here’s the story: The 2.5-ton machine, first constructed in the 1950s as part of an atomic research program, became the “world’s oldest original working digital computer” after a museum in the UK restored and then rebooted it on Tuesday. Unlike today’s nearly mute devices, the massive computer clicks, clacks and flashes like something out of […]

A mere 40 years ago this month, arcade video gaming got its first success story; on Nov. 29, 1972, Atari officially announced the release of Pong, the first commercially profitable arcade video game ever made. How Pong came upon its success — and how it even came into existence — is one of the more […]

Google’s effort to install a blazingly fast, gigabit-per-second fiber Internet service in the two-state metropolis of Kansas City—a speed 100 times faster than the national average—is a radical new business direction for the company, and perhaps provides an unorthodox model for how to rewire parts of the United States. via How Google’s Kansas Internet Service […]

Social media allows managed services providers (MSPs) to have a dialog with clients. How does that work for managed service providers? Logicalis Vice President of Marketing Lisa Dreher (pictured) says that social media enables her company to share current experiences while giving people an inside look into what is happening. via Logicalis Talks Social Media: Is […]

Predictions that Oak Ridge National Laboratorys Titan supercomputer had become the most powerful machine in the world have turned out to be right. via Titan steals No. 1 spot on Top500 supercomputer list | Cutting Edge – CNET News.

Let’s assume you’re a managed services provider MSP that hires a new sales team member. Instead of sending that new sales hire out into the field to pursue revenue, CharTec CEO Alex Rogers recommends a 90-day plan to train that new hire — with zero revenue responsibility during that window. via Managed Services Provider MSP […]

Today, Google’s services experienced a limited outage for about 27 minutes over some portions of the Internet. The reason this happened dives into the deep, dark corners of networking. I’m a network engineer at CloudFlare and I played a small part in helping ensure Google came back online. Here’s a bit about what happened. via […]

  by Kat Cosgrove Yesterday evening, Hurricane Sandy/East Coast Super Storm/Frankenstorm made landfall. New York City is nearly shut down, it’s snowing in West Virginia, and this guy rode a jet ski through a flooded New Jersey neighborhood.

  This weekend and early next week Hurricane Sandy is expected to combine with two other storm systems to produce a rare late-season Super Storm that could affect a wide area on the US East Coast.

  Remote Backup Systems, the founders of the online backup industry and developers of the RBackup and Mercury OEM Online Backup platforms activated its Emergency Backup Hot Site for use by its Partners in the path of the approaching East Coast Super Storm.

  New service automatically migrates entire Windows servers into the cloud. Remote Backup Systems, developers of Online Backup Software for MSPs is pleased to announce that it has partnered with SysCloudSoft to provide new cloud migration and recovery to Amazon AWS solutions to millions of businesses via their global network of managed service providers.