Pooling the expertise of an international group of technological, clinical and academic organizations, Brains Unlimited, located at the Maastricht Health Campus, is to bring research from concept to commercialization. Providing an integrated platform for the imaging community, Brains Unlimited will help scientists and companies to find the key to many common disorders, as well as gain more insight into the development of human behaviour. Scannexus is the vehicle for the management of the operation , as well as providing the interface for the development and delivery of projects utilizing the scanner facility. It operates an open access infrastructure that includes 3T, 7T and 9.4T human (whole body) MRI scanners – opening up huge opportunities in advancing the understanding of human anatomy, functionality and metabolism. Dedicated researchers and a network of scientific, clinical and application expertise (via local – Netherlands, Belgium and Germany – universities, research institutes and hospitals)

Thanks to the Web, the world is witnessing a deluge of data barely imaginable a decade ago.

Global data flows have increased fourfold over the past five years, and are expected to increase by a factor of three over the next five.

Networking giant Cisco speaks of the arrival of the Zettabyte Era at the end of 2015, when Internet traffic is expected to go over 1 billion terabytes (or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). By 2017, the number of connected devices will be nearly three times as high as the world