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17 May, 2013

Black Box Software: A Problem For Science That Extends To Big Data

Blind trust in black box, or click-and-run, software is a growing problem in science, and the concern extends to big data and high performance computing…

Publication: GigaOm

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16 May, 2013

How To Keep The Feds From Snooping On Your Cloud Data

A cottage industry is growing up around virtual padlocks that consumers can place on cloud services so that the vendors themselves can’t get to the information — even if the government requests access.

And in recent years there have been a lot of those government requests for access from storage…

Publication: CIO.com

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16 May, 2013

To Tap Big Data, Federal IT Must Partner With Tech Industry

For IT managers in the federal government to wring more value out of the enormous stores of data they oversee, they must develop deeper partnerships with service providers in the private sector, according to a panel of experts speaking here at the annual FOSE government IT conference…

Publication: CIO.com

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14 May, 2013

Outsourcing BI: Why You Need To Know Your Competitive Basis

Industries are inspired by competition. This is advantageous for organizations relying on outsourcing, with a plethora of vendors vying to provide that harmonious service you are looking for. Then again, do you need to outsource everything? Mike Atwood from Booz & Company looks at why competition has taken on a whole…

Publication: TDWI

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14 May, 2013

Here’s What Is Really Worrying CIOs, Right Now

Wondering what issues are really setting the CIO agenda and keeping tech chiefs up at night? Here’s a list from CIOs themselves – and yes, BYOD and cloud are on there…

Publication: ZDNet

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13 May, 2013

Why IT Is Struggling To Build Private Clouds

Think private clouds offer all the flexibility and none of the risk? IT is missing out if it doesn’t prepare for public cloud use…

Publication: Information Week

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10 May, 2013

A Big Data Storage Tip: One Size Does Not Fit All

Much of the AMPLab’s research is focused on speed for supporting faster data processing, interactive queries and other high-performance computing tasks. “Disk storage is abundant,” Stoica says, “but access to data on disk can be slow…

Publication: EdTech

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9 May, 2013

Cloud Jargon Unwound: Distinguishing Saas, IaaS and PaaS [Infographic]

As cloud computing dominates more and more aspects of the tech world, similar-sounding but confusingly different something-as-a-service acronyms keep piling up. You’ve probably heard of SaaS (Software as a Service), since it applies mostly to cloud services delivered to end users…

Publication: ReadWrite

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9 May, 2013

Are Today’s IT Organizations Equipped To Reap The Benefits?

Market-leading enterprises have been investing heavily in analytical applications to improve operations. They make thousands of decisions every day at different levels of the organization with differing degrees of complexity, impact, frequency and predictability. Are today’s IT organizations equipped to reap the benefits…

Publication: BeyeNetwork

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