A few months ago, a small team of engineers huddled around a plexiglass enclosure on a table. A small, rugged mini-PC was anchored inside the 13-inch x 16-inch x 20-inch box. A cable ran from the PC, through a sealed opening in the enclosure, to a nearby monitor,...
Intel is close to releasing a new type of memory that could revolutionize how businesses handle data. This new technology, called Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory, is already generating excitement in the industry as it nears worldwide availability in early 2019. What...
Businesses that don’t modernize their infrastructure won’t stay relevant for long. That’s a strong statement, but it’s the reality today. Businesses are creating apps and services that rely on machine learning, high-performance computing (HPC),...
FPGA stands for field-programmable gate array. That’s quite a mouthful, so let’s start with a basic definition. Essentially, an FPGA is a hardware circuit that a user can program to carry out one or more logical operations. Taken a step further, FPGAs are integrated...
Research and testing are a big part of what we do at Prowess. We’ve looked at everything from tablets to two-in-ones to laptops to servers, comparing performance, security, usability, and other factors. Recently, we completed a project comparing several Microsoft...