The Quiet Forefront

Hybrid Clouds Move to the Forefront

D espite cloud computing’s enormous popularity and high profile, many companies have been dissatisfied because they haven’t found what they want in a single cloud architecture. Private clouds, which organizations run internally, are secure, accessible without Internet availability, and customizable. Public clouds run over the Internet and are scalable, less costly, and simple to adopt and use. ...

The quiet revolution

Sixty years have passed since Avery, MacLeod and McCarty published their landmark paper revealing DNA as the genetic material, writes Heather Dawes.

Ageism: the quiet epidemic.

Quantifying the quiet epidemic

During the late 20 century numerical rating scales became central to the diagnosis of dementia and helped transform attitudes about its causes and prevalence. Concentrating largely on the development and use of the Blessed Dementia Scale, I argue that rating scales served professional ends during the 1960s and 1970s. They helped old age psychiatrists establish jurisdiction over conditions such ...

Smart Cities at the Forefront of the Future Internet

Smart cities have been recently pointed out by M2M experts as an emerging market with enormous potential, which is expected to drive the digital economy forward in the coming years. However, most of the current city and urban developments are based on vertical ICT solutions leading to an unsustainable sea of systems and market islands. In this work we discuss how the recent vision of the Future...