

Peter Sayer
Senior Editor
Peter Sayer covers enterprise applications for CIO.com.

Summit: How IBM and Oak Ridge laboratory are changing supercomputing
The team designing Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new Summit supercomputer - set to become the fastest on the planet - correctly predicted the rise of data-centric computing, but its builders couldn't forecast how bad weather would...

Internet exchange points team up to bring better MANRS to the internet
Enterprises stand to benefit from ISOC's latest campaign to get IXPs to clean up internet routing security

IBM tweaks its z14 mainframe to make it a better physical fit for the data center
IBM is making rack-mounted versions - ZR1 and Rockhopper II - of its latest z14t mainframe, that are able to securely run containerized software.

What is the Open Compute Project?
Hardware designed to Open Compute Project specification accounts for well over $1 billion in hardware sales.

Supercomputing is becoming super-efficient, Top500 list shows
Supercomputing is becoming super-efficient. The highest climber in the latest Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is also one of the highest scorers on the Green500 ranking of the world's most efficient. But the...

Up next: Disposable IoT
Sigfox shows a 20-cent IoT wireless tracker chip that could report when and approximately where a package is opened.

Google service promotes hybrid clouds
Google is offering Dedicated Interconnect a new service for enterprises to build hybrid infrastructure by extending corporate networks into its cloud.

IoT could benefit from mesh-networking capabilities in Bluetooth
Bluetooth is about to get some significant new mesh networking capabilities -- and the best bit is, you may not need new hardware to benefit from them.

IBM wants you to encrypt everything with its new mainframe
IBM wants businesses to use its new z14 mainframe to encrypt pretty much everything -- an approach to security it calls pervasive encryption.

How to secure your CMS without patching
In as little as four hours, the bad guys can reverse engineer a software patch for an open-source content management system (CMS) and build an exploit capable of turning millions of websites into spammers, malware hosts or DDoS...

It's time to upgrade to TLS 1.3 already, says CDN engineer
Businesses dragging their heels over rolling out TLS 1.2 on their website might have an excuse to delay a little longer: Version 1.3 of the TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption protocol will be finalized later this year, and...