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Santa's I.T. guys have been naughty

Posted December 24, 2012 - 9:37 am

What happens when the Naughty or Nice server goes down?
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How a homegrown mobile system helps police bust gang members

Posted December 24, 2012 - 8:18 am

A local police force built a mobile-data system to quickly access the records officers need to make arrests.
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SAP in 2013: Five things to watch

Posted December 21, 2012 - 5:11 pm

It was a typically busy year for SAP, with the company making headlines for strong sales of its HANA in-memory database, high-profile acquisitions and aggressive moves into cloud computing.
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Why Oracle bought Eloqua, and what it means for the market

Posted December 20, 2012 - 4:59 pm

Oracle surprised many tech industry observers by announcing Thursday it would pay US$871 million for marketing automation software vendor Eloqua. The move seemed a bit unlikely given the amount of sales and marketing software Oracle already had.
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If Tim Cook recapped Apple's 2012

Posted December 20, 2012 - 12:05 pm

The Apple CEO’s (hypothetical) holiday letter to family and friends, recapping the company’s eventful 2012
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BrandPost: Speedy in-memory databases put lid on costs

Posted December 20, 2012 - 9:00 am

With big data raining down on enterprises, DBAs are stuck trying to weather the storm.
The Human Face of Big Data

Posted December 20, 2012 - 9:00 am

Is a picture is worth a thousand gigabytes? Check out “The Human Face of Big Data,” a geek-out-worthy coffee-table book
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10 of the most useful cloud databases

Posted December 19, 2012 - 2:19 pm

Big data is becoming a big deal and cloud providers want to be the place where enterprises databases live.
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IBM plans to buy e-discovery firm StoredIQ

Posted December 19, 2012 - 12:10 pm

In a move to expand its portfolio of information governance software, IBM is acquiring e-discovery software vendor StoredIQ.
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BrandPost: Where does big data come from? Look in the mirror

Posted December 18, 2012 - 9:00 am

By 2015, 68% of the world’s unstructured data, such as you find on Facebook and YouTube, will be created by consumers
Big data offers huge potential for smaller companies, Intuit says

Posted December 18, 2012 - 7:53 am

'Tis the season for prognostications. Staring into the big data crystal ball one thing seems clear: We can expect to see the continuing growth of the Internet; wireless networks; social media; and the number of mobile devices, sensors and other digital technology that is flooding us with new data every minute of every day.
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The Weekly Hash - December 14, 2012

Posted December 14, 2012 - 12:01 pm

A silly review of tech stories from this past week, today featuring the pope tweeting, a $30,000 TV and job openings for pot smoking IT professionals
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4 smokin' hot startups: The next tech boom

Posted December 14, 2012 - 10:34 am

Social networks are dead, and smart VC money is pouring into enterprise startups like Shoutlet, Asana, Narrative Science, and Delphix
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Converged Storage: Advances in Deduplication Help Tame Big Data

Posted December 13, 2012 - 6:15 pm

Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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Converged Storage: A Next-Gen Storage Strategy for Big Data

Posted December 13, 2012 - 6:15 pm

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Breaking Boundaries through Converged Storage

Posted December 13, 2012 - 6:15 pm

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2012's most popular holiday music

Posted December 13, 2012 - 1:05 pm

New data reveals that when it comes to holiday music, all we want for Christmas is Mariah Carey
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Cloudera CEO: We're taking Hadoop beyond MapReduce

Posted December 13, 2012 - 12:03 pm

In an exclusive interview, the voluble CEO of Cloudera, Mike Olson, holds forth on the company's new Impala project and the boundless potential of Hadoop
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U.S. sees tech's 'center of gravity' shifting to Asia

Posted December 13, 2012 - 11:10 am

Government's forecast for next 15 to 20 years gives tech a big role; including big data, robotics, smart cities and anarchic social networks.
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Oracle buys DataRaker for 'big data' analysis

Posted December 13, 2012 - 10:07 am

Oracle is planning to buy DataRaker in a move that will give it a cloud-based platform for analyzing data from smart meters used by energy utilities. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, weren't disclosed.
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BrandPost: Sexiest geek alive: the data scientist

Posted December 13, 2012 - 9:00 am

Data scientists are suddenly sexy because of the pervasiveness of big data, not the newness of the position.
IT departments battle for data analytics talent

Posted December 12, 2012 - 12:18 pm

Few areas of the IT job market have seen the growth and disparity in supply and demand that the data analytics field has experienced. As big data continues to get bigger and the analytics field continues to mature, it's becoming a core part of business and the decision-making process. Competition for top analytic talent is going to be fierce as more companies enter the hiring fray.
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Netflix publishes US ISP speeds, Google Fiber first for November

Posted December 11, 2012 - 11:48 pm

Netflix has started publishing a monthly ranking of U.S. Internet service providers, using its large number of video streams to compare download times.
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Making big data smaller

Posted December 11, 2012 - 12:49 pm

MIT researchers develop a new approach to working with big data: reduce it to a size that can be managed and analyzed with conventional tools
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By 2020, there will be 5,200 GB of data for every person on Earth

Posted December 11, 2012 - 12:40 pm

During the next eight years, the amount of digital data produced will exceed 40 zettabytes, which is the equivalent of 5,200 GB of data for every man, woman and child on Earth, according to an updated Digital Universe study released today.
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