Microsoft Reveals Azure Stack System Requirements

The hardware requirements are here for organizations looking to run a little piece of the Azure cloud in their own data centers. Read more »

Synthesizing Ornamental Typefaces

We present a method for creating ornamental typeface images. Ornamental typefaces are a composite artwork made from the assemblage of images that carry similar semantics to words. These appealing word-art works often... Read more »

Sparse GPU Voxelization of Yarn-Level Cloth

Most popular methods in cloth rendering rely on volumetric data in order to model complex optical phenomena such as sub-surface scattering. These approaches are able to produce very realistic illumination results, but... Read more »

Memory-Efficient Interactive Online Reconstruction From Depth Image Streams

We describe how the pipeline for 3D online reconstruction using commodity depth and image scanning hardware can be made scalable for large spatial extents and high scanning resolutions. Our modified pipeline requires... Read more »

IBM Takes On AT&T Managed Application, Hosting Services

AT&T’s networking, security and mobility solutions coupled with IBM Cloud offer companies a fully managed IT environment. Read more »

Microsoft Offers Mea Culpa in OneDrive Unlimited Storage Flap

Under Microsoft's new Office 365 cloud storage strategy, not all business customers will get unlimited space for their files after all. Read more »

Financial and Tech Titans Form Open-Source Blockchain Project

The new Linux Foundation-led collaborative project will build an Open Ledger Project using the same core technology innovation that enables Bitcoin. Read more »

Microsoft Adds Virtual Array to StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage

The company adds a new virtual array product to its StorSimple line of hybrid cloud storage and announces updates to its 8000 Series hardware and Cloud Appliance. Read more »

Startup Oration Simplifies Shopping for Prescription Drugs

This type of pricing transparency in the prescription medication business has not been made available previously. Read more »

Box, Salesforce Release Products to Boost Cloud Collaboration

The cloud service providers hammered out a deal that will make content stored in Box's storage cloud readily available to Salesforce.com users. Read more »