Toby Wolpe, Author at TechRepublic

Toby Wolpe

Toby Wolpe is a senior reporter at TechRepublic in London. He started in technology journalism when the Apple II was state of the art.

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Big Data
Photos: Did this SAP big data software really help Germany win the World Cup?

Behind the scenes, the managers who engineered Germany's triumphant campaign in the soccer World Cup finals in Brazil have apparently been analysing huge volumes of player data, processed by SAP's HANA in-memory computing technology.

Toby Wolpe
Published: July 17, 2014, 4:10 AM PDT Modified: July 18, 2014, 4:01 AM PDT Read More See more Big Data articles
Innovation
Photos: Who’s watching you? Farnborough 2014 drones and UAVs

Unmanned aerial vehicles lined up on parade at this year's Farnborough Airshow - and not all them fit the familiar drone profile.

Toby Wolpe
Published: July 16, 2014, 5:05 AM PDT Modified: July 17, 2014, 2:21 AM PDT Read More See more Innovation articles
Data Centers
Inside the Cold War bunker that’s now a cloud datacentre

With enough steel doors, tunnels and caverns to make a James Bond villain weep with envy, Switzerland's former main Cold War command centre is undergoing a makeover as a cloud computing datacentre.

Toby Wolpe
Published: May 31, 2012, 8:09 PM PDT Modified: June 18, 2012, 6:21 PM PDT Read More See more Data Centers articles