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For those of us within the industry, it’s difficult to get a handle on the level of understanding that the ‘person in the street’ has for what we do. Even moderately technically adept people know the frustration of watching a casual computer user completely failing to take advantage of the efficiencies designed into technology. Who hasn’t beenRead more

We announced last week that the Route 22 project would be creating challenges in the coming months for customers visiting NYI’s New Jersey facility (NJ1), at 999 Frontier Road in Bridgewater, New Jersey. In an effort to keep everyone up to date with the latest information, we followed up with the Product Manager and severalRead more

In a recent report, Gartner says that while big data is going to be a key driver for better decision making, open data will have a larger impact on value creation. Many businesses find the idea of open data adding value to be counter-intuitive. Data is a significant asset to modern companies, and finding ways toRead more

The taken-for-granted ability to enter a word or a phrase into Google Search and have it return in seconds the most relevant results from the largest set of information in the history of civilization is one of the unacknowledged wonders of the modern world. It’s a world-changing technology, and is the result of ingenious softwareRead more

There are very interesting things happening recently at the interface between data and design. We’re in a data driven world, and as handy as that is for analysis and decision-making, our brains are not designed to extract information easily from equations and spreadsheets. Data visualization is, at its heart, the art of shaping data intoRead more

  Yesterday evening, the Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity Rover successfully touched down on the surface of Mars and sent its first pictures back to mission control. The rover — at almost 900 KG, the heaviest object yet sent to Mars — was lowered by sky-crane  onto the surface of the Aeolis Palus region of theRead more

Data Center Knowledge posted an interesting piece yesterday about how New Jersey is a perfect market to support the growth of data centers. Among the factors driving growth cited was location, which has historically made it a favorite destination for financial services firms and enterprise companies. Other historic drivers included more plentiful and less expensiveRead more

  The 2012 Olympics in London are going to be one of the most data and network intensive events in history. Much has changed in the four years since the last Olympics, and in addition to coping with the demands of the media, London’s infrastructure is going to be put under heavy load by theRead more

Back in the day, when the Internet was a novelty and a 28K modem was the height of technical sophistication, movies tended to visualize the net as a 3-dimensional CGI landscape of shimmering buildings and lambent roads — the literal representation of the clichéd information superhighway. All a stark contrast to the dour network mapsRead more

The “Startup Guys” is a video series from College Humor that lovingly skewers the technology industry. For those of us who have been in the business for a while (or what might seem like a while in Internet Time), “Startup Guys” captures all the craziness of tech entrepreneurship, from the whack company names (Brush FireRead more