Spoiler: It's nowhere near 9,000,000mAh!
British start-ups show off their tech
British start-ups show off their tech
Computer gaming met corporate IT, while old-school mobile phones were given a touchscreen makeover at a gathering of tech start-ups in Cambridge last week.
The annual event showcased the latest technology to come out of fledgling companies in the east of England.
One of the companies, Real-Status, showed how it is harnessing the software used to create the photo-realistic battlefields of modern video games to map the make-up of corporate datacentres.
The company has created software that retrieves information on every server, virtual machine, router and network switch inside a company's IT estate and then uses a game software engine to render them in a colourful 3D map, as seen above.
The idea is that IT and business managers will be able to manipulate the map - zooming in or out, rotating it and scrolling around - to explore how effectively company datacentres are running.
Here you can see a representation of a company's entire IT estate, with the icons representing different servers, routers or network switches and the white lines indicating network links between devices, or links between a virtual machine and a physical server.
Caption by: Nick Heath
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