A breakthrough in live migration of data for virtual machines now available to the cloud community

Guest post by Dr. Yaron Wolfsthal, Senior Manager of System Technologies and Services, IBM Research - Haifa.

In early 2008, the IBM Haifa Research Lab embarked on a three-year European Union sponsored framework program called RESERVOIR. The aim of this unique research initiative between IBM, the EU and twelve other European partners, has been to develop technologies around open standards to

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Sometimes Nature is the Best Medicine

Written by guest bloggers Prof. Marcel Jaspars and Prof. Rainer Ebel, from the University of Aberdeen
At the University of Aberdeen we have a dedicated team and a brand new $2.5 million dollar laboratory looking at deep sea organisms, like sponges, soft corals and bacteria.  We do this because extreme environments such as the Mariana Trench (10,916 meters below see level) yield unusual and

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