Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract ...

As I make my way to tonight's heavily over-subscribed Cloud Computing Camp in London, I'm mulling an important aspect of cloud business models that I doubt will get much airtime tonight. People who ...

Intel's NUC is the result of the chipmaker asking its engineers to make the smallest fully-featured compute unit possible, and boy is it small. The unit measures in at just 4x4x2 inches, which is ...

Do you ever think that virtual machines (VMs) are disposable entities that you create and destroy on a whim? I do. I have the feeling that VMs are less valuable than their physical counterparts. I ...

Intel’s Next Unit of Computing, or NUC is a tiny desktop computer with an Intel Core i3 processor. It’s not much larger than small stack of paperback books, but packs enough power to function as a ...