But with genetic technologies advancing much faster than computing, opening up their corporate jewels to more innovators could prove to be just good business sense, giving them an advantage over their closed competitors.

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To learn to improvise, GenJam relied on a computing technique known as a genetic algorithm.

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Two recent events reminded us this spring that cloud computing infrastructures are vulnerable to the same genetic IT flaw that plagues traditional data center operations: everything fails, sooner or later.

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