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Hewlett-Packard may appear to have lost 3PAR to Dell, but it has acquired Stratavia, a privately held database and application automation company based in Denver but terms of the deal were not disclosed. And has now put in a renewed bid for 3PAR offering $27.00 per share in cash, or an enterprise value of $1.8bn. Nice to have deep pockets. The Dell response has been to respond with its own $27 per share for 3PAR matching the HP $1.8bn. By weekend HP cranked up the bid for 3Par to $1.88bn, topping Dell’s latest offer by 11%. And next?

Rapid at Edinburgh University is a cost-effective and efficient way of designing and delivering portal interfaces to tasks that require remote compute resources. Already a screencast has been created where Rapid was used to develop a portal for HECToR showing how to setup an advanced computer job involving computational chemistry. Now the focus is on a better understanding of seismology research using Rapid.

Smart Web services rely on machine learning, algorithms that enable software to learn how to respond with a degree of intelligence to new information or events. Google has launched its service Google Prediction API that provides a simple way for developers with databases to play with to create software that learns how to handle incoming data.

A recent survey on information security breaches reported that 68% of large respondents had been asked by their customers to demonstrate their compliance with security standards. Some 92% of large respondents had a security incident in the last year, with the average cost of a large respondent’s worst incident being £280k - £690k.

Scottish Universities like Abertay and Napier have no apprehension in taking coding and programming over into their interactive and games teaching and insisting creatives get the hang of it, which after some grinding of teeth, they seem to manage. So why are the journalism schools hanging back on teaching CAR, SNA and the like? Time for the Scottish Girl Geeks to establish a subset of Hacks & Hackers please.

Cloud computing, in this conference context is internet-based computing, where organisational information, software and hardware is stored in, and accessed from external data centres. Key features of cloud computing include potential cost savings, flexibility and reliability. Perceived issues around the technology include the environmental impact, the costs of migration to the cloud, the challenges posed to existing security measures and data protection legislation.
A final session discusses how Scotland can position itself as a cloud host and will focus on the following: What are the economic benefits of cloud computing? How can Scotland become a leader in this new approach to ICT? What are the barriers to this emerging industry in Scotland?

The National House Building Council in the UK is to use Trillium Software System to manage its multiple databases containing millions of records of registered homeowners, house builders and housing plots. Its news breaks just as The National Audit Office declared that one of the UK largest landowners , the Ministry of Defence , lacks a proper database on its estate and is struggling to cut costs as a result.

The massive oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico emphasises the problem of marine pollution and has focused on how difficult it is to evaluate. Thanks to a EUREKA project MERMAID, another heavily polluted maritime ecosystem, the European North Sea, has for more than 20 years been a test-bed for a highly advanced early-warning system for all types of pollution. This development is now aiding marine authorities around the world to keep seas clean. And MERMAID projects have had focus around the world from Australia, and the US to the UK for marine developments ranging from marine nature reserves, the monitoring of undersea seismic activity and a UK website closed and superceded by three others.

Most Parkinson’s research relies on the classic scientific method: hypothesis, analysis, peer review, publication. Google co-founder Sergay Brin who has the LRRK2 genetic mutation associated with higher rates of Parkinson's is proposing a different research approach, one driven by HPC muscle and staggeringly large data sets.

Following on from the success of the Periodic Table of Videos on YouTube comes a new series on Molecules, says a brief EPSRC press release recently which is supporting this web approach to science. Gaberlunzie however would have like to seen a web Periodic Table which allowed pop-out windows with more details, graphics and information about each element. Video's rumble past at such a rate, that for slower intellects such as his, the read, look browse approach is really useful.

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose detectors, designed to run at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. The CMS experiment will use different databases to store the data describing the structure of the detector, the elements and modules of its sub-systems, their properties and the As-built documentation.

While the extension of broadband to UK citizens remains high on the new government's priority list, despite not being part of the agreement thrashed out by Conservative and Liberal Democrat negotiators this week, an early repeal of the controversial Digital Economy Act was unlikely. But government has announced scrapped schemes and major IT cuts.

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