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How big data is changing football on and off the field

Posted September 12, 2013 - 12:27 pm

Big data is changing everything, often without our realizing it is happening. Case in point: football (and fantasy football in particular).
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Lessons from numbers guru Nate Silver about working with big data

Posted September 11, 2013 - 3:30 pm

There's a big misconception about big data, renowned statistician and blogger Nate Silver says. It's not enough to just have access to massive amounts of data: You need to know how to use it and what to do with it.
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Webcast: Implementing Big Data? Infrastructure Readiness Is Key

Posted September 11, 2013 - 10:15 am

In this on-demand webcast, the analyst and HP speakers discuss the need for infrastructure readiness, prior to implementing a Big Data solution.
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White Paper

Transform IT for Big Data

Posted September 11, 2013 - 10:15 am

HP Big Data Infrastructure Consulting helps IT departments increase their relevance to business by giving them the infrastructure to extract maximum value from Big Data.
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Implementing Big Data? Infrastructure Readiness is Key

Posted September 11, 2013 - 10:15 am

This analyst white paper communicates the need to develop a sound Big Data infrastructure strategy and design, prior to implementing a Big Data solution.
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BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 Implementation Solutions - BlackBerry Technical Services to Make your Deployment Fast, Effective and Robust

Posted September 10, 2013 - 4:30 pm

Find out how BlackBerry® implementation and migration services can help you optimize your Enterprise Mobility Management infrastructure and ease your transition to BlackBerry® 10.
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The Five Fundamentals of Virtual Server Protection

Posted September 10, 2013 - 3:15 pm

With CommVault's Simpana software, you can take full advantage of virtualization technology developments and enable private and public cloud data centers while continuing to meet all your data management, protection and retention needs.
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Snapshot Management for Data Protection

Posted September 10, 2013 - 3:15 pm

Conventional backup and recovery approaches clearly can't keep up with ever-growing storage demands. Learn how Simpana Software can help you modernize your data protection strategy.
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Every CIO Should Ask About Virtual Server Data Protection

Posted September 10, 2013 - 3:15 pm

Server virtualization is changing the face of the modern data center. CIOs are looking for ways to virtualize more applications, and faster, across the IT spectrum.
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A New Era for Backup - Time to Replace Traditional Methods

Posted September 10, 2013 - 3:15 pm

Conventional backup and recovery approaches clearly can't keep up with ever-growing storage demands. Learn how Simpana Software can help you modernize your data protection strategy.
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A New Era for Backup - Time to Replace Traditional Methods

Posted September 10, 2013 - 3:15 pm

Conventional backup and recovery approaches clearly can't keep up with ever-growing storage demands. Learn how Simpana Software can help you modernize your data protection strategy.
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A New Era for Backup - Time to Replace Traditional Methods

Posted September 10, 2013 - 3:15 pm

Conventional backup and recovery approaches clearly can't keep up with ever-growing storage demands. Learn how Simpana Software can help you modernize your data protection strategy.
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IDC Analyst Report: The Critical Need for Edge Data Protection

Posted September 10, 2013 - 3:15 pm

IDC believes the need to protect sensitive data residing on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices is more critical than ever. CommVault Edge can meet end user demands by delivering a secure solution that allows users access to their data anywhere.
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Big Data Turns to Technical Operations Company

Posted September 10, 2013 - 2:00 pm
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SAP buying KXEN for predictive analytics

Posted September 10, 2013 - 1:56 pm

SAP is expanding its arsenal of data-analysis software with the acquisition of predictive analytics vendor KXEN, announced Tuesday.
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Five answers to top BYOD Challenges

Posted September 10, 2013 - 10:15 am

Managing mobility and BYOD means knowing how to navigate operating systems, changing platforms and changing hardware to reap benefits.Here are five steps for choosing an MDM solution.
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Big data drives City of Buffalo's Operation Clean Sweep

Posted September 6, 2013 - 9:38 am

By layering data from 311 and 911 calls over Census data, unemployment data and other poverty indicators, Buffalo uses data analytics to identify its most challenged neighborhoods and more effectively deploy resources for everything from neighborhood beautification to combatting crime and reducing fire hazards.
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New SAP-Accenture partnership will give customers one throat to choke

Posted September 5, 2013 - 12:37 pm

Long-time partners SAP and Accenture are deepening their relationship with a new offering that calls for Accenture to serve as a single point of contact on projects involving SAP's HANA in-memory database platform and Accenture's own intellectual property.
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Big data project aims to solve digital exclusion in the UK

Posted September 5, 2013 - 10:04 am

A big data analysis project is aiming to leverage a wide range of government data to understand and solve the problem of digital exclusion in the UK.
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3 lessons CMOs take away from IT's flawed approach to big data

Posted September 4, 2013 - 3:28 pm

There's no question that data analytics are playing an increasingly important role for marketing departments, but many marketers aren't getting what they need from the CIO. If IT can't deliver, CIOs should expect CMOs to go around them.
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Open data initiative kicks off in South Bend, Indiana

Posted September 4, 2013 - 6:00 am

The city enacts an open data plan showing a strong commitment to making public data accessible
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Durkheim Project leverages big data to prevent veteran suicides

Posted August 28, 2013 - 5:55 pm

In partnership with social media networks and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, a nonprofit research project is seeking to show that predictive analytics can identify U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who are suicidal and need help.
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The $1 million a year software developer

Posted August 28, 2013 - 6:00 am

The unfortunate story of a Wall Street programmer who went to jail for code theft also demonstrates how one man became a million dollar developer
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Webcast

Be Ready for Big Data

Posted August 26, 2013 - 9:45 am

Learn considerations for building your own environment, how to best manage the batch processing and the choices you have for outsourcing some or all of the environment or services.
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Unix: How to select every 1,000th line from a file

Posted August 25, 2013 - 8:46 pm

Log files on Unix systems can easily grow to hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines. Here's a simple way to pluck out every Nth line.
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