The City of Pforzheim, Germany, has a forward-looking IT division that has used virtualization to simplify its data center while meeting the growing demands of city operations. Building on that progress, the organization is now looking to better support its virtualized infrastructure by combining the cost-effectiveness and simplicity of converged LAN and storage traffic with the flexibility of ...

This year Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine (MGGM) turns 5 years old. For the editors of this journal it is time for some reflection, “looking back and looking forward”. The first issue appeared in May of 2013, 60 years after the publication by Watson and Crick’s discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA and 10 years after the completion of the Human Genome Project. The work for this...

Having just returned from the annual meeting of the IEEE Software boards, I thought that this would be an opportune issue in which to do something a little different: rather than use this space to discuss a technical issue, I’d like to share with you some of the priorities and plans we’ve been making to guide the next year’s work on this magazine. We would love to get feedback on how well these...