Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. While many large organizations are still ...
Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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Big Data is not a new phenomenon and has been around for many years, noted Jim Goodnight, CEO at SAS, who spoke recently at the SAS High Performance Analytics Conference in Hong Kong. He described how companies have always been aware of ...
December 22, 2012 - Alstom Grid says it has completed its acquisition of ASAT Solutions Inc., a Calgary, Alta.-based based substation automation solutions provider. “This acquisition is a great opportunity for Alstom Grid to help ...
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Colleges and universities are moving swiftly to create advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data. The schools have all seen the McKinsey Co. report warning of a mega shortage in analytical talent of as many as 190,000 ...
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Western Digital Thursday unveiled an upgraded line of 1TB to 4TB 3.5-in hard drives for data centers. WD had released another 4TB enterprise hard drive, the Ultrastar 7K4000 made by its Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) unit, in ...
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Slough-based logistics company Crossflight has implemented an EMC VNX mid-range storage array to support its virtual server environment and has reaped savings of 50% on power and cooling costs. The company chose EMC over HP, IBM and ...
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Dojo North Software has released version 2.2.6.20 of WindowSMART 2012, a hard disk and solid state disk health monitoring, reporting and alerting utility for Windows, which promptly notifies you if unhealthy conditions are detected. ...
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One-fifth of UK companies are assigning financial value to their data, according to Dynamic Markets, a UK-based market research firm The firm's research is one of three pieces sponsored by analytics software and services company SAS. The ...
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During the integration of three separate groups of Swiss telecoms provider SwissCom, the business intelligence (BI) function was the only place to get a view of the whole organisation. Following its decision in 2008 to converge groups ...
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NetApp has topped-and-tailed capacities in its midrange filer family, introducing the FAS3220 and FAS3250. Both products come with clustered NAS, unified storage (NAS and SAN) and flash cache acceleration capability. The FAS3220 and ...
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Strict standards in Germany Storage from Hitachi Data Systems Cost recovery Viability test and TrueCopy Licence Hitachi Dynamic Tiering For the German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - data management was becoming a big ...
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The VMworld Europe 2012 winners are: Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: Tiger Wheel & Tyre Best virtualisation and server consolidation project: The National Trust Best virtualisation for disaster recovery project: ...
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Companies seeking to enable enterprise-wide data analytics need a chief analytics officer (CAO) to lead the way, analysts say. The explosive growth in corporate data over the past few years has created both an opportunity and a challenge ...
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Teijin Ltd a supplier of carbon fiber used in the Airbus SAS superjumbo jet, is considering plans to expand output in the US to meet demand for the lightweight material in cars and storage tanks for natural gas. Executive Vice President ...
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