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Swift Capital

Swift makes it easy to find funding for your business.

1.Apply online

  Choose the amount you need, and apply without digging up extensive   paperwork.

2.Instant approval

   Once you've applied, your funding decision will be made right away.

3.Funds in one hour

   Money can be directly deposited into your bank account in as little as 1 hour.

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The mind behind the Star Wars franchise.

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Star Wars Planets.

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Disaster Recovery by NetApp

Recover fast from outages and maintain availability for critical applications with NetApp disaster recovery solutions.

An effective disaster recovery (DR) plan is vital to prevent your operations from being brought to a standstill in case of damaging natural or man-made events—which could mean lost productivity, reputation, and revenue. That’s why NetApp® disaster recovery solutions, built on the Data ONTAP®operating system, are the right choice to help you recover fast in the event of a system, site, or regional outage.

Use our asynchronous replication solutions to maintain business continuity across a broad spectrum of recovery-point and recovery-time objectives.

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FlexPod from NetApp

Reduce deployment time, project risk, and the cost of IT with prevalidated FlexPod solutions from NetApp and Cisco.

The FlexPod® platform, developed by NetApp and Cisco, is a flexible, converged infrastructure solution that delivers prevalidated storage, networking, and server technologies. It’s designed to increase IT responsiveness to business demands while reducing your overall cost of computing. Think maximum uptime, minimal risk.

FlexPod leverages new technologies and enables new use cases that redefine the way IT delivers value.

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Shell

MORE AND CLEANER ENERGY The world will need much more energy to power homes and fuel transport for a growing and prospering population. But to counter climate change, energy must increasingly come from lower-carbon sources. Our know-how, technology and innovations are helping to deliver more, cleaner energy.

Lives and livelihoods, economies and communities depend on convenient, reliable and affordable energy to prosper and grow. People today have never been more connected. More and more of us are enjoying better opportunities, better health and a higher standard of living.

Most of the energy we use today comes from oil and coal, and increasingly from natural gas. These hydrocarbons power, heat and cool homes and workplaces, and fuel transport systems that take us to work or school, or bring us to a holiday destination. They enable industries that sustain our lives, and provide the chemical ingredients to make most of the products we buy – like the device you are using to read this page.

Global demand for energy is rising fast, driven by growing population and prosperity.

By 2050 the number of people on the planet is forecast to grow to 9 billion - that’s nearly 2 billion more of us than today. Many people in emerging economies will join the global middle class. They will buy refrigerators, computers and other appliances that consume energy. And many will buy cars, more than doubling the number on the road.

Our cities increasingly provide the heartbeat of our economy. Around three-quarters of the world’s population will live in cities by mid-century, putting more pressure on the food, water and energy resources essential for our shared well-being and prosperity.

Experts agree that global energy demand is likely to double by 2050 compared to demand in the year 2000. At the same time, tackling climate change caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and other environmental stresses has never been more important.

Meeting these challenges will require a radical change in the global energy system and a range of new energy sources. Because the energy system is so large, and demand for energy is rising so quickly, to achieve these changes will take a huge collective effort.

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VIRTUALIZATION

It's how enterprises see performance take off.

Virtualization can vastly improve efficiency, free up resources, and cut costs without sacrificing performance, security, and existing investments. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is powered by the people behind Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It takes you beyond bare metal to an open, agile foundation that's ready to take on the future.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens World Premiere Red Carpet

Watch StarWars.com’s coverage of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens world premiere red carpet, presented by Verizon and live from Hollywood! Hosts Anthony Carb...

Star Wars is here :3

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NetApp: Evo Rail

NetApp Integrated VMware EVO:RAIL Solution combines compute, networking, and storage resources in a single platform and enables a NetApp Data Fabric for data management across any cloud. This easy-to-use system simplifies management and provides a scalable, software-based building block you can use to cloud enable your remote and satellite locations.

NetApp Integrated EVO:RAIL Solution gives you:

Simplicity. Fast configuration, a single management console, reduced footprint, and single vendor support speed time to deployment. Scalability to Cloud. A software-defined building block serves as a foundation for cloud computing, provides central management, and lets you scale storage without adding more nodes. Control. NetApp Data Fabric, a set of software based capabilities, lets you integrate and manage data across a hybrid cloud environment, improve efficiency—and accelerate innovation and IT responsiveness. A Proven Platform: Data protection, advanced storage efficiencies, and world-class support deliver a proven enterprise platform designed by industry leaders, so you can deploy with confidence. Read the solution brief (PDF) and datasheet (PDF) to learn more about NetApp Integrated EVO:RAIL Solution.

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Up to the cloud with Bluemix

Once you sign up, create an app, and deploy it to Bluemix, the system determines the right virtual machine (VM) for the app. Once that's sorted out, the app can be deployed into that framework. Then Bluemix's services and boilerplates come into play. The service is a cloud extension providing functionality that is ready-to-use by the app's running code. The boilerplate contains an app and its associated runtime environment and predefined services for a given domain.

You can choose from a suite of boilerplates. This will help you get up and running. Bluemix's Java DB web starter kit is a popular choice as it allows users to execute and scale Java apps with ease and finesse.

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Windows 10

Windows 10 is the new Windows 7. It's robust, pleasant to use and free. Start menu is functionally excellent. Settings app is finally a Control Panel replacement and universal apps are much higher in quality. Windows 8 failed us. It failed itself. Thankfully, 2015 Microsoft is pretty different from 2012 Microsoft. The key management of the corporation has changed. It has woken up to the fact that people can choose other operating systems. It's keen on making stuff for OS X, Linux, iOS and Android. As you'll hear, it's allowing apps from other platforms to be easily ported to Windows, too. Windows is more than just an OS and Microsoft believes the future of Windows is as a platform for all. Like Android, the strength of Windows is in the thousands of companies that develop for it and use it in their products.

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HP Helion OpenStack 2.0

HP has used the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo to announce the arrival of HP Helion OpenStack 2.0, the second iteration of the company's customised version of OpenStack, and what is likely to be the last major announcement before the company officially splits in two on Monday. The OpenStack platform is proving hugely popular with a variety of vendors, and the Helion implementation adds a number of new features. Provisioning of new infrastructure and amending existing infrastructure with zero downtime are joined by rolling upgrade paths that can permeate entire clouds without taking them down. Patch management is also made continuous so that systems can be patched without even breaking application availability. There is a new user admin interface offering centralised logging and monitoring at scale across the cloud environment, with flexible network configuration to enable connectivity across entire IT environments. Helion OpenStack 2.0 adheres strictly to the OpenStack API and is therefore able to offer cross-compatibility with other OpenStack deployments and the growing number of third-party plugins.

Meanwhile, HP will cease to exist in its current form when trading on the two new companies, HP Enterprise and Hewlett Packard, begins on Monday

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Oracle battling with Amazon

Oracle has launched a direct rival to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud with its own Elastic Compute Cloud. The product was revealed amid a flurry of cloud-related product announcements, including five in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space, at the OpenWorld show in San Francisco on Tuesday. Oracle Elastic Compute Cloud adds to the Dedicated Compute service the firm launched last year. The latest service lets customers make use of elastic compute capabilities to run any workload in a shared cloud compute zone, a basic public cloud offering. "Last year we had dedicated compute. You get a rack, it's elastic but it's dedicated to your needs," said Thomas Kurian, president of Oracle Product Development. "We've now added in Elastic Compute, so you can just buy a certain number of cores and it runs four different operating systems: Oracle Linux, Red Hat, Ubuntu or Windows, and elastically scale that up and down."

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Chrome OS & Android = One

Google is reportedly planning to merge Chrome OS and Android into a single platform. The Wall Street Journal reported that the firm has, as most analysts suspected, been working towards merging Chrome fully into Android for the past two years, but recent advances will allow it to reveal a fully fledged Android-Chrome hybrid, expected to be called Android, in 2017. The two operating systems have co-existed in a separate but symbiotic way for several years, but it has been clear that the situation was not tenable or even logical in the longer term. Android sits comfortably as the world's most widely used operating system, but it seemed only a matter of time before Chrome OS, based on the popular Chrome Browser, was rolled in. Chromebooks, laptops powered by Chrome OS, are proving increasingly popular owing to their low cost and increasing app availability, yet still account for only three percent of the laptop market. An Android runtime for Chrome browser and Chrome OS already exists, but Google has been sparing on the number of apps it makes available through this method. Any Android app can be hacked to work on a Chromebook, however.

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IBM & SETI vs Aliens

LOOKING FOR extra-terrestrial life is not usually associated with big data analytics and IBM technology, and is usually left to enthusiastic stargazers and people who may have been in the Mojave desert for too long. But the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute begs to differ. SETI was showcased as an IBM customer at the company's Insight 2015 conference in Las Vegas, and makes use of IBM's Cloud Data Services and Apache Spark to analyse huge amounts of data harvested from the Allen Telescope Array in California. SETI's goal is to find obvious narrow-band aspects of radio signals that differ from background astrophysical and human signals. Dr Jill Tarter, holder of the Bernard Oliver Chair at SETI, said that four years of listening to signals has resulted in a collection of 100 million signals and a vast amount of raw data on the frequencies to which they relate. This has given SETI a large database of signals that it has identified as interference from humans and non-alien sources. SETI uses a combination of analytical resources in IBM's Cloud Data Services portfolio and Apache Spark to query this data and determine whether SETI may have missed something in the recorded interference. The institute also uses this combination of cloud-based analytics and in-memory framework to find faster ways to diagnose signals.