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Big Data is Where Problem Becomes Opportunity
“Big data is a change of perspective at least in my mind from lots of data as a problem to lots of data as an opportunity,” says EMC Global Marketing CTO Chuck Hollis. “It…
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What is Big Data? Two EMC Experts Weigh In
The term “big data” has become all the rage in the storage, database, and analytics industries. But what exactly does it mean. At Monday’s EMC Corp. analyst briefing, which preceded EMC’s U.S. announcements on…
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PDAs, the Perfect Personal Organizers That Never Caught On
This morning started with a call from my wife’s dentist, reminding her of her Monday appointment. That got me thinking – the reason that professionals of all kinds spend money reminding people of their…
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The New BN Full Color e-Reader — Is This the First True Android Tablet?
Barnes & Noble Inc. this week has announced the first full color e-reader device, the NOOKcolor. It also announced a program to encourage and support third-party developers for the 7”, backlit, full color Android…
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Building the Second Industrial Revolution
“I think we are witnessing the second industrial revolution,” says Abhishek Mehta, managing director for big data an analytics at Bank of America. “And it is fueled by data. And it will bigger than…
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Hadoop Opens the Door to Solving “Unsolvable” Problems
Hadoop will be at least as disruptive to the IT industry as Linux has been, says Abhishek Mehta, managing director for big data and analytics for Bank of America. And one major reason for…
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The Dallas Cowboys Build Success on a Virtualized Environment
“When we moved to the new stadium, we wanted to do more with technology to create the optimal fan experience,” says Bill Haggard, director of enterprise infrastructure for the Dallas Cowboys. In the old…
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Initial Android Entries into the Slate Computer Market Disappoint
I have been looking forward to the appearance of the first Android slate tablet computers all summer. And I have great hopes for the new Galaxy Tab from Samsung, which was introduced at a…
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We Have Seen the Future and the Data Will Bury You
[Ed. Note: Cloudera is a two-year-old startup founded by individuals from Facebook, Yahoo!, Google and Oracle to develop tools around Hadoop, a technology originally developed at Yahoo! And now owned by Apache to capture…
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Collaboration and Virtualization are Vital to the New Vision of Computing
Collaboration is Key to Swollowing the Unstructured Data Tsunami, says Greenplum’s Snee If, as Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer says, trying to capture and process all the unstructured data flooding enterprises and large…